Well this is certainly a lot to unpack.
A Cleveland man got into an argument with is boyfriend that turned violent, and called 911 while he was in the process of strangling him with a belt.
George Rauls can be heard on the emergency call saying, “I need a cop cause me and my boyfriend got into it. And I’m about to kill him.”
“What’s your boyfriend’s name?” asks dispatch.
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“Christopher.”
“Is he a white male, black male?” the female dispatcher asks.
“He’s black,” responds Rauls. “Why does all this matter?”
“Sir, it’s proper procedure,” says the dispatcher.
“I have a belt wrapped around his neck, and I’m choking him,” replies an audibly frustrated Rauls.
The conversation, which you can hear for yourself below, is quite disturbing considering Rauls’ former boyfriend, Christopher Hardy, is silently choking to death nearby.
Adding to the strangeness is the fact that it took police nearly twelve minutes to respond, and nine minutes to even call an ambulance.
Police say a lack of available cars in the area accounts for the slow response, nearly three and a half minutes above the average time for high priority calls.
An assistant safety director reviewed the tape for local Fox 8 News and concluded that “the dispatcher did a good job of handling the situation on a 12-minute phone call.”
The city also found that the response time of police was within “an acceptable range.”
Call us crazy, but telling someone in the midst of committing a crime of passion about “proper procedure” does not seem like it should be, for lack of a better phrase, proper procedure.
Fox 8 repots that George Rauls has now been indicted for murder, and records show he is pleading not guilty.
Head here to listen to the audio of the call (WARNING — it is highly unsettling).
Xzamilio
Whoo, people are just… ugh. Dude needs to be a psych facility or locked up for a long damn time, away from the rest of the sane members society that only think about killing their significant other every now and then instead of actually doing it.
Glücklich
I’ll pass on listening but *twelve minutes?* What the fuck, Cleveland? Cops too busy sending résumés to other departments hoping to get the fuck outta that shit pit?
What’s your boyfriend’s name?
His ethnicity?
Height? Weight?
Highest level of education?
Does he own or rent?
Of the following ranges, about how much is your boyfriend grossing every year?
On a scale of one to ten, how likely is he to recommend strangulation to friends/family?
In the past six months, has he visited any of the following hospitals or clinics?
Does your boyfriend subscribe to any of the following magazines?
Realitycheck
@Xzamilio: I agree with you, from a ‘normal” (what ever that means) point of view why would anyone want to spend their life in jail to get even with some one??? And how can you kill some one you love or used to love?
But what do I know?
Bob LaBlah
Good thing it wasn’t Detroit, a city where the police would still be on their way to the crime scene. That is also providing that this month’s phone bill got paid.
DarkZephyr
Why did he keep choking him if he didn’t want to do it?
stanhope
The reason the dispatcher asked whether the fellow was Black or white was to calibrate the response time. What dude should have said is the he is Black and the choking victim white….police would have been there before he could put the phine down.
SashaVonAndris
I. Can’t. No. Black, or white? Really? I know the times that ya’ll are in but, really? *exhaling so hard I got my lungs shrunk to within an inch of their original size*
Louis
Smh tragic I feel so badly for that poor mans family they must be devastated . 🙁
I never will understand how people who KNOW for a fact that they have taken another human beings life in cold blood have the audacity to plead NOT GUILTY.
This man needs professional help but he also needs to go to jail for murdering another human being .
Glücklich
@Louis:
Agreed all the way ’round.
Long time no post. Welcome back.
Stached1
This is why they hate us.
TampaZeke
@Stached1: What is why who hates who? I can’t imagine any combination of answers that will keep your comment from looking stupid.
SFHarry
It sounded like the dispatcher was trying to keep the caller on the line and delay the killing hoping they could get a police car there in time. Also asking unimportant questions could remove the killers thoughts from the task at hand and put it on some mundane topic.
Alistair Wiseman
Example #235,732 that gays are no more superior than our straight counterparts.
Alistair Wiseman
@Bob LaBlah:
Detroit, Ferguson, Cleveland…just another poorly run liberal, Democratic shithole.
Sluggo2007
Obviously not a Rhodes Scholar.