At Rest

Deadly force
An Akron SWAT team officer kicked in the bedroom door of a West Akron home, not knowing the man he was looking for was lying on a bed inside with a gun aimed at the door. The door gave way and the man on the bed fired a shot that flew past the officer's head, lodging in the steel door jamb. Another bullet caught the officer in his heavy bullet-proof vest. Officer Mitchell Hamidi fired two shots, killing Clements.
This record exists so that Eric Tyrone Clements, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.
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