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Holding the City of Cleveland Accountable for the Death of Fire Cadet Symeon Williams When a young man like Symeon Williams enters a professional training academy, he is making a commitment to protect his community. He and his family place their trust in the institution to provide a rigorous, yet safe, environment for that growth. The lawsuit recently filed by the Williams family suggests a horrific betrayal of that trust. It alleges that what was supposed to be a fire academy training session in Cleveland, OH, devolved into illegal, physical hazing that claimed a young life. We are writing this to the families in Cuyahoga County and across Ohio who are facing the unthinkable: the death of a loved one caused by those who were supposed to be their mentors. As trial attorneys who take wrongful-death-claim-lawyer cases in Ohio, we know that when a government entity like the City of Cleveland is involved, the fight for justice is never straightforward. The city and individual supervisors like Lieutenant Vincent Russo have a wall of legal protections that most private citizens do not. This case is about more than a training accident. It is about a culture that allegedly permitted lethal physical…