By MARK GILLISPIE
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty makes a statement regarding the grand jury announcement of the deaths of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams Friday, May 30, 2014, in Cleveland. A grand jury on Friday indicted six police officers involved in a November 2012 car chase that ended in the deaths of two unarmed people, was decried by critics as a racially motivated execution and is part of a wide-ranging federal investigation. The grand jury indicted a patrol officer on two charges of manslaughter and five supervisors on charges of dereliction of duty for failing to control the chase. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
Calvin D. Williams, Frank Jackson
Cleveland Police Chief Calvin D. Williams, right, makes a statement regarding the grand jury announcement of the deaths of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams Friday, May 30, 2014, in Cleveland. Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, left, listens. A grand jury on Friday indicted six police officers involved in a November 2012 car chase that ended in the deaths of two unarmed people, was decried by critics as a racially motivated execution and is part of a wide-ranging federal investigation. The grand jury indicted a patrol officer on two charges of manslaughter and five supervisors on charges of dereliction of duty for failing to control the chase. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
Tim McGinty
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty makes a statement regarding the grand jury announcement of the deaths of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams Friday, May 30, 2014, in Cleveland. A grand jury on Friday indicted six police officers involved in a November 2012 car chase that ended in the deaths of two unarmed people, was decried by critics as a racially motivated execution and is part of a wide-ranging federal investigation. The grand jury indicted a patrol officer on two charges of manslaughter and five supervisors on charges of dereliction of duty for failing to control the chase. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
Frank Jackson
Mayor Frank Jackson makes a statement regarding the grand jury announcement regarding the deaths of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams Friday, May 30, 2014, in Cleveland. A grand jury on Friday indicted six police officers involved in a November 2012 car chase that ended in the deaths of two unarmed people, was decried by critics as a racially motivated execution and is part of a wide-ranging federal investigation. The grand jury indicted a patrol officer on two charges of manslaughter and five supervisors on charges of dereliction of duty for failing to control the chase. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Six Cleveland police officers charged in a November 2012 car chase that ended with 137 gunshots and the deaths of two unarmed people have pleaded not guilty to various charges.
The six officers were arraigned Friday morning in Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH’-guh) County Common Pleas Court.
Patrolman Michael Brelo (BREE’-loh) faces the most serious charges, two counts of manslaughter, in the deaths of driver Timothy Russell and passenger Malissa Williams.
He is accused of jumping on the hood of Russell’s car and unloading his weapon, firing at least 15 rounds that county prosecutor Tim McGinty has described as fatal.
Five supervisors are charged with misdemeanor dereliction of duty for failing to control the chase.
An attorney who spoke on behalf of all the officers on Friday asked that they be treated fairly.
