Cleveland police officials say officers who mistook woman's body for deer are remorseful

The two Cleveland police officers who mistook the body of a slain woman left alongside Interstate 90 for a deer carcass are remorseful for their mistake and expect to be disciplined, their union leader said…
Loomis said the locator device in their patrol car showed that they did go to the highway at 4:43 a.m., after a motorist reported seeing a body between West 44th Street and Lorain Avenue.
The officers rolled past the body of 28-year-old Angel Bradley-Crockett going 40 to 50 mph, Loomis said. She was curled in a loose fetal position under the West 44th Street overpass, he said. They saw her naked back and thought they saw a deer. They told the police dispatcher to have the Ohio Department of Transportation pick up the deer.
Then they asked to take their 45-minute lunch break. There were no other calls for police assistance waiting, so their request was granted. While they were eating at the 2nd District station, a second motorist reported seeing the body at 5:34 a.m.
A third reported it at 5:49 a.m.
And the ODOT worker sent to pick up a deer carcass called police at 6:19 a.m. to report the body.

I wonder whether this ‘mistake’ would have happened if it had been a murdered white woman, or if she had been found in almost any other part of town..

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   my hometown. totally horrified.

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