The @CityofCleveland Mental Health Response Advisory Committee met hours before @cory_shaffer's story was published about how @CLEpolice officers were disciplined in the Tanisha Anderson case. Nobody from the @cle_monitorteam or @USAttyHerdman's office told us about this.
The City of Cleveland Mental Health Response Advisory Committee (MHRAC) was created in 2015 as a mandate of the consent decree between @TheJusticeDept & @CityofCleveland. Nothing #MHRAC does remotely resembles oversight. We have not had a single discussion about Tanisha Anderson.
I have brought up Tanisha Anderson's death numerous times in an effort to prevent future tragedies. But the subject is off-limits. You have to ask why the #Cleveland #police department doesn't want to prevent a potential future in-custody death. #SayHerName #TanishaAnderson
The #Cleveland #police monitoring team found former Safety Director Michael McGrath did not consider Tanisha Anderson’s death as an aggravating factor when he imposed discipline on 2 officers who restrained her & failed to summon an ambulance during her 2014 mental health crisis.
In March 2018, former #Cleveland Safety Director Michael McGrath suspended #veteran patrolman Scott Aldridge for 10 days, the minimum time allowable under the city’s discipline structure, & issued a written reprimand to rookie #police officer Bryan Myers. -- #TanishaAnderson
“It is entirely unclear how in this case, which involved an actual in-custody death, the woman’s death would not be considered to be an aggravating factor,” the monitor team wrote in a 101-page filing in U.S. District Court in #Cleveland. -- #TanishaAnderson
The #Cleveland #police monitor was perplexed that Former Cleveland Safety Director Michael McGrath twice used the fact that rookie officer Bryan Myers was in his 1st few months on the job as a reason to issue him a reprimand. -- #TanishaAnderson #CrisisIntervention #PoliceReform
First, former #Cleveland Safety Director Michael McGrath reduced the level of seriousness of the internal infraction against #police officer Bryan Myers. Then he used the officer's rookie status to justify doling out the least amount of discipline he could -- a written reprimand.
“This double-counting of mitigating factors is especially questionable where the underlying neglect of duty could reasonably run the risk of injury or death, which did, in fact, occur,” wrote the #Cleveland #police monitor team in a filing in U.S. District Court in Cleveland.
@cory_shaffer What shocks me is the news media, @cle_monitorteam & @USAttyHerdman's office has repeatedly missed the most glaring conflict of interest former #Cleveland Safety Director Michael McGrath had in imposing discipline on #police officers in the Tanisha Anderson case.
@cory_shaffer @cle_monitorteam @USAttyHerdman: Former #Cleveland Safety Director Michael McGrath's son Stephen McGrath was 1 of the 2 #police officers who responded to the first 911 call from Tanisha Anderson's family. His name is listed in the police report.
@cory_shaffer @cle_monitorteam @USAttyHerdman: Stephen McGrath was a rookie at the time. Tanisha Anderson's family praised both officers. They thought they would be dispatched to return when they called 911 the 2nd time. But they were not.
@cory_shaffer @cle_monitorteam @USAttyHerdman: To be clear Stephen McGrath was NEVER accused of wrongdoing. But he was interviewed by internal affairs, deposed by lawyers in the civil suit brought by Tanisha Anderson's family & he was interviewed by Ohio BCI's investigators.
@cory_shaffer @cle_monitorteam @USAttyHerdman: How could it possibly be appropriate for former Cleveland Safety Director Michael McGrath to impose discipline in a case that his son was so closely involved in? It is an unmistakable conflict of interest.
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