Watch live: Multiple East Cleveland police officers face judge amid criminal charges

Nearly three weeks after charges were announced against 11 current and former East Cleveland police officers, nine of them will face a judge at 8:30 a.m. today for arraignment in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.

Charges in the case include felonious assault, interfering with civil rights, dereliction of duty, theft in office, tampering with evidence, among other allegations.

“There has been a cancer growing in the East Cleveland Police Department,” Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley said when announcing the charges back on March 8. “We are doing our best to remove every tentacle of that cancer, so this department can rebuild and grow to put itself in a position to hire officers who will enforce the law as well as follow the law. This is a sad day for all of law enforcement.”

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