The Civilian Police Review Board voted unanimously on a Group 3 discipline recommendation for Cleveland Police Sergeant Lance Henderson Tuesday.
Henderson arrested Antoine Tolbert in May 2022 while he was open carrying in a Cleveland neighborhood.
The recommendation comes seven months after Tolbert filed a civil rights lawsuit against the City of Cleveland and 11 police officers. Officials say that at the time of his arrest, he was responding to the community threat of two shootings in the Glenville neighborhood.Officials say Cleveland police were dispatched to the neighborhood for reports of a man walking down the street carrying a gun.
Officials say Henderson told Tolbert he was being arrested for improper handling of a firearm after he was cuffed and placed in the back of a cruiser.
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