News 5 Cleveland investigator Scott Noll reports that a former East Cleveland police officer walked into court hoping to avoid prison, but walked out in handcuffs.
The officer, Brian Parks, asked the judge not to send him away. In court video cited by Scott Noll, Parks pleaded for mercy and told the judge he had “never been in trouble” and wasn’t going to hurt anybody.
But Scott Noll says the judge wasn’t moved enough to give probation. Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Cassandra Collier-Williams told Parks he was going to prison to show the community he was being held accountable for what he did…