Cleveland Heights asked the public prosecutor of the district whether the police officer, who recorded the wife of the mayor's wife, could be accused of crime – then the video hidden itself

Cleveland Heights, Ohio – The city of Cleveland Heights asked the public prosecutor's office in the Cuyahoga district, against the official who recorded the Body Camera film material from the Mayor Kahlil Seren on December 6th in the town hall of the on December 6th.

In an explanation cleveland.com And the simple dealer, a spokeswoman for the public prosecutor of Cuyahoga County Michael O'malley, said that a member of the city department of the city called the office on March 27 about “an incident that took place in the town hall of Cleveland Heights with regard to the recording of the body camera and the wife of the mayor”.

“The question was asked whether our office was of the opinion that crimes were appropriate in connection with the behavior of the Cleveland Height Officer,” said spokeswoman Alexandria Bauer. “The video was never made available to us. Due to the facts formulated to us, we had no longer occurred criminal behavior.”

Cleveland.com and the simple dealer asked the city whether someone in the city wanted the official to be charged.

“It is a usual practice for departments of municipal law to seek a lawyer from the district's public prosecutor,” said spokeswoman Jessica Schantz. “The legal department does not indicate any information about the privilege of the lawyer client.”

Dan Leffler, a lawyer of the union who represents police officers from Cleveland Heights, said that the civil servant who acted the video, SGT. Jason Moze acted in accordance with the directive and was informed by a supervisor during the incident that he turns on his body camera.

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The revelation that urban officials examined potential charges against the civil servant, after the legal department of the city has rejected inquiries from Cleveland.com and the Plain Dealer and others to publish the Body Camera videos this week. The city argued on Wednesday in an e -mail that the film material was “personal nature” and has nothing to do with the operations of the city government -and therefore does not qualify as a public recording according to Ohio law.

A prominent lawyer for the first change called the rejection “a joke”. A second lawyer, Subodh Chandra, went on Facebook on Thursday, to name it as “an outrageous violation of the law on public records in Ohio”.

“There is no ambiguity in the law and every lawyer who enables this nonsense defies the rule of law,” wrote Chandra. “The lack of transparency here is terrible.”

The city previously published surveillance videos without audio that represent parts of the interaction, as well as a written accounting for the incident that Moze wrote after the incident.

According to Moze, the mayor's wife, Natalie McDaniel – who is not a city employee – In a “panic state”, the town hall entered this afternoon and said that she had not heard of Seren for 12 minutes and asked to know his location.

At first Moze did not recognize them. But when he tried to calm her down, a second employee, who was identified in surveillance material as Patrick Costigan – dived from the mayor's office. McDaniel started to shout him immediately, Moze wrote. The confrontation continued in a stairwell where her scream was so loud that it was heard from the public lobby.

She returned to the wing of the mayor and screamed and scolded the employees for another 20 to 30 minutes, hit a glass wall and shouted that Moze was a “huge white man” who felt suppressed, according to his report.

Seren and McDaniel finally went, and Seren said to Moze, “we have to talk” when he passed the officer's desk, Moze wrote.

McDaniel's role and behavior in the town hall has caused several city employees to have the political capital of Seren and disappoint when he entered the last year of his first term.

The then city administrator and the former mayor of Akron, Dan Horrigan, resigned abruptly after only two months in March. In a series of E -Mails Horrigan, which were sent to Seren in the days before his resignation, he said that the “improper role of her wife in and with the operations of the city” was given several people about “security in the workplace and enemy workplace conditions”.

“In view of the lack of attention and action for the serious matter that I have made aware of, I, as a city administrator for the city of Cleveland Heights, will no longer continue and hereby withdraw from my position,” Horigan wrote to Seren in an e -mail on March 17th.

Horrigan referred to an incident on March 13, in which the then coordinator of the city, Andrea Heim, said that McDaniel had the hallway in the wing of the mayor of town hall up and down and screamed after she was asked to leave a meeting.

“I don't feel comfortable to return to the town hall until I am sure that the wife of the mayor, who is not and is not and is not[sic] Employees and who is not a chosen civil servant is no longer present and has an impact on the room and directly on meetings, ”Heim wrote in an e -mail to the city's staff officials.

Seren commissioned an external personnel company to examine the complaint from Heim and put them on a paid vacation two weeks later.

Then Heim stepped back on April 15 while he still had paid vacation.

And several residents and city councilors said that McDaniel turned the words “f —- g Lügner” upside down in the City Councilor Craig Cobb during a meeting of the city council on December 19, in which the council and the mayor fought against his budget proposal.