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On Sunday afternoon, a bystander snapped a photo of a white Cleveland cop aiming his gun at an unarmed African American woman.
Within hours, the photo had gone viral on the Internet as commenters compared the incident to other recent police controversies also captured on camera, particularly the Nov. 22, 2014 of Tamir Rice by Cleveland police.
?Never been more upset to live in Cleveland,? one person wrote on reddit.
?Unbelievable,? added another.
?Here we go again?,? wrote a third.
?Hopefully this makes the news and the cop responsible here is ID?d,? argued one commenter. ?If it?s true he showed zero restraint threatening car crash victims then he does not deserve that badge.?
By Monday evening the photo, originally posted on imgur, had been viewed almost two million times.
At first glance, the image seemed to confirm the worst fears about the Cleveland police, a department that just two months ago agreed to give the Department of Justice oversight after a string of deadly police-involved shootings.
Photo of cop aiming gun at woman goes viral, but report paints different picture - The Washington Post