Very strong responses followed:
- Video broadcast of excessive force used on Montrice Bolden on 6/27 (Video first aired Erie News Now July 18, 2016)
- Protestors Support Montrice Bolton, Call for Officers' Resignation (Erie News Now July 22, 2016)
- Department of Justice opens civil rights investigation in Erie police arrest (Your Erie 7/26/2016) "U.S. Department of Justice will open a civil rights investigation on alleged brutality used by Erie police in the arrest of Montrice Bolden.'
- Hundreds rally in Perry Square against excessive police force (YourErie July 28, 2016)
- "Excessive force" investigation spurs protest plan and talk of resubmitting plan for citizen review board (GoErie July 29, 2016)
- A second man files federal lawsuit claiming excessive force in 2015 (GoErie Aug 2, 2016) "Tyrone Morrow Sr., claims he was unlawfully stopped, detained and assaulted by as many as 12 city police officers... claims in his lawsuit that the encounter left him with serious neck and spinal cord injuries that required surgery. "Morrow is African-American.
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