White Men who Beat Down an off duty Black Police officer Avoid prison

Two men who confessed to assaulting an off-duty Shaker Heights policeman avoided prison Tuesday, which didn't sit well with their victim. Patrolman Woody Richmond suspects the only reason the men attacked him that night in October in the Flats was because they were white and he was black. "I've had a rude awakening to how society still works," said Richmond, a 14-year police veteran. "I was attacked solely and purposely for the color of my skin."The confrontation started as Richmond escorted two women both white to their cars at about 2:15 a.m. Richmond said Sulin and Dolego taunted the women and called him a pimp, using a racial epithet. [more]