Cleveland Metro-Health Hospital Pulls Ads Over Aunt Jemima Cartoon While Journalist Says She Was Held At Hospital And Illegally Jailed Over Articles
Accused Rapist And Murderer Of 11 Black Cleveland, Ohio Women Anthony Sowell
Cuyahoga County Court Of Common Pleas Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold
Cuyahoga County Court Of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell
Cuyahoga County Court Of Common Pleas Judge Timothy McGinty
U.S Rep. Marcia Fudge Of Ohio's 11th Congressional District
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor And Issue 6 Crafter Bill Mason
Cleveland, Ohio Mayor Frank G. Jackson
Cleveland NAACP President And Call And Post General Counsel George Forbes
Ohio State Senator Nina Turner (D-25)
Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper Editor Susan Goldberg
Cleveland Call And Post Newspaper Executive Vice President, Associate Publisher and Editor Connie Harper, Center, With Current And Former Call And Post Staff
Journalist And Editor Kathy Wray Coleman
Posted Thursday, December 17, 2009
(National and Cleveland, Ohio Area News)
From the Metro Desk of The Determiner Weekly and The
Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog And Media Network
According to a Plain Dealer Newspaper article published Dec 16., the Cuyahoga County owned Metro-Health Hospital has pulled its ads from the Call and Post Newspaper for publishing a cartoon three-weeks ago that has Ohio State Sen. Nina Turner (D-25) dressed in Aunt Jemima attire. But local journalist Kathy Wray Coleman, who wrote 38 articles published last year by the Call and Post, says that Metro-Health Hospital officials are criminal bound hypocrites that held her at the hospital against her will on Aug 7 of last year so that she could be dragged the following day to the county jail, and threatened over her articles on county reform and otherwise.
“They are scum to the hilt and have a lot of nerve criticizing the Call and Post while harassing Blacks that come to that slop of a hospital,” she said. “If I am not mistaken, top officials there are under investigation as to the pending FBI county corruption probe and I hope they are prosecuted and rot in jail. They do what certain currently in office politicians in Cuyahoga County tell them to do because the hospital is owned by the county.”
In severing ties with Cleveland's Black newspaper Metro-Health CEO Mark Morgan wrote a letter to Call and Post officials, which was followed by contact by hospital big wigs with Plain Dealer officials in preparation of a follow-up news article.
"We must now inform you that we will no longer advertise in the Call & Post given your recent editorial posturing, which we find to be both offensive and incompatible with our own values and mission," Metro-Health's letter read, in part.
The dispute with Turner and Call and Post officials, that Coleman says she does not endorse, followed the state senator's support of the county reform measure dubbed Issue 6, which voters approved last month. It substitutes the now elected three-member Board of Commissioners and six other non-judicial elected positions with a soon-to-be elected executive and elected 11-member county council. Turner was the only prominent Black politician to back the initiative, one that has become the baby of both the Plain Dealer and county prosecutor Bill Mason. He says that Call and Post officials and the Black leadership that opposed Issue 6, including Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-11), have overlooked its advantage in ridding the county of corruption through a systemic rearrangement of its political infrastructure.
Like other affiliates of Cleveland's Black community Call and Post Associate Publisher and Editor Connie Harper, and its general counsel George Forbes, also president of the Cleveland Chapter NAACP, obviously balked at Mason' s posture, putting Turner in an Aunt Jemima suit for public view. The decision brought a firestorm of controversy and a discussion around race relations too.
“After being diagnosed with high blood pressure I was dragged last year form Metro-Health Hospital to the county jail, threatened over articles, and given a knock-out drug,'” said Coleman, a freelance journalist of 15 years who is now editor of the online Black magazines, The Determiner Weekly. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network. “Thereafter, I was held naked, supervised by a disgruntled male, and released four days later. I was never charged or shall I say maliciously prosecuted by county prosecutor Bill Mason, whom I appreciate for not participating in the potential rape on my person and this unprecedented harassment of a Black woman and journalist.”
Coleman said she was stunned as to how she was treated at Metro-Health where she appeared for chest pains on August 7 of last year, after being illegally arrested upon leaving a Cuyahoga County Justice Center courtroom. She was in the building that day on an unrelated civil hearing before Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell. Erin O' Malley, then the judge's staff attorney, accused O'Donnell earlier this year of setting up the illegal arrest along with Cuyahoga Judge Timothy McGinty. O'Donnell was presiding over a civil case involving a claim and counterclaim with Coleman and Chase Manhattan Mortgage Company, and McGinty was presiding over a civil lawsuit case that Coleman filed following malicious prosecution in Shaker Heights over articles in the Call and Post on alleged housing discrimination against Blacks.
“Judges McGinty and O'Donnell were lobbying for Chase and Shaker Heights without any regard for the law or my rights as a litigant, and getting me arrested criminally when they only had jurisdiction over the civil cases before them gave them brownie points,” said Coleman. “But that is just how corrupt many of the 34 judges in the general division of the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court are. We encourage the FBI to continue its investigation around judicial corruption in Cuyahoga County.”
To get back at her for Mason's failure to maliciously prosecute her Coleman says that Cleveland Law Director Robert Triozzi stepped in. A former Cleveland Municipal Court judge and now an appointee of Jackson, who by city charter provisions would assume the office of mayor if the 62-year old Jackson, for one reason or another, is unable to serve, Triozzi, she says, had her maliciously prosecuted in May of this year as to the Justice Center arrest itself.
“He usurped the role of Chief Prosecutor Victor Perez to get to me anyway he could because he wanted to get to the Call and Post for Jackson and others,” said Coleman, who was charged with aggravated disorderly conduct, obstruction of official business, making a false a alarm by getting sick that day, and resisting the arrest of White male arresting sheriff deputy Gerald Pace, who did not accuse her of it or even attend the two-day trial.
Coleman was exonerated in May by a jury of all but resisting arrest where she says that Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Keough, through corrupt and illegal actions, directed the jury to issue an illegal jury verdict on the resisting arrest charge. This was in spite of the absence of Pace from the trial proceedings and his support of Coleman having not resisted his illegal arrest. According to Coleman and her attorney in the case, the verdict violates her right to confront her non-existent accuser as required via the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Keough, Coleman says, is still harassing her with an illegal warrant, though her attorney has finally decided to move to have it lifted, and said it would be.
“She has no choice but to lift the warrant,” said Wayne Kerek, Coleman's paid attorney in the matter.“I have never seen anything like this.”
In addition to Metro-Health Hospital, the Cleveland area E.F. Boyd Funeral Home, which is Black owned and operated, also has severed ties with the Call and Post for now, an indication that the mainstream establishment is having difficulty pulling support in an effort to destroy Cleveland's most notable Black newspaper, and a historical one at that.
Meanwhile, McGinty made headlines after he recused himself from the Anthony Sowell murder case last week where Sowell is in custody and accused of raping, kidnapping, assaulting and murdering 11 Black women on the now infamous Imperial Ave. in Cleveland. Their remains were allegedly found just days before the Nov. 3 election for mayor of the predominantly Black major metropolitan city.
“Judge McGinty says his work with reform is why he ran from the case, but nothing about this unfair judge, whose dismissal of my lawsuit involving malicious prosecution in Shaker Heights was reinstated last month by the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals, suggest genuine reform efforts,” said Coleman. “ He is a pint- sized phony judge who harasses Blacks and women, violates the law, and routinely criticizes his own colleagues under the guise of reform.”
Cuyahoga Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold, who is Black, was assigned by Cuyahoga Administrative Judge Eileen A. Gallagher to replace McGinty. She had a pre-trial on the Sowell murder case on Wed. where his lawyers caught attention in asking the judge to hold Sowell's insanity pleas in abeyance until further investigation.
Cuyahoga County Court Of Common Pleas Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold
Cuyahoga County Court Of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell
Cuyahoga County Court Of Common Pleas Judge Timothy McGinty
U.S Rep. Marcia Fudge Of Ohio's 11th Congressional District
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor And Issue 6 Crafter Bill Mason
Cleveland, Ohio Mayor Frank G. Jackson
Cleveland NAACP President And Call And Post General Counsel George Forbes
Ohio State Senator Nina Turner (D-25)
Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper Editor Susan Goldberg
Cleveland Call And Post Newspaper Executive Vice President, Associate Publisher and Editor Connie Harper, Center, With Current And Former Call And Post Staff
Journalist And Editor Kathy Wray Coleman
Posted Thursday, December 17, 2009
(National and Cleveland, Ohio Area News)
From the Metro Desk of The Determiner Weekly and The
Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog And Media Network
According to a Plain Dealer Newspaper article published Dec 16., the Cuyahoga County owned Metro-Health Hospital has pulled its ads from the Call and Post Newspaper for publishing a cartoon three-weeks ago that has Ohio State Sen. Nina Turner (D-25) dressed in Aunt Jemima attire. But local journalist Kathy Wray Coleman, who wrote 38 articles published last year by the Call and Post, says that Metro-Health Hospital officials are criminal bound hypocrites that held her at the hospital against her will on Aug 7 of last year so that she could be dragged the following day to the county jail, and threatened over her articles on county reform and otherwise.
“They are scum to the hilt and have a lot of nerve criticizing the Call and Post while harassing Blacks that come to that slop of a hospital,” she said. “If I am not mistaken, top officials there are under investigation as to the pending FBI county corruption probe and I hope they are prosecuted and rot in jail. They do what certain currently in office politicians in Cuyahoga County tell them to do because the hospital is owned by the county.”
In severing ties with Cleveland's Black newspaper Metro-Health CEO Mark Morgan wrote a letter to Call and Post officials, which was followed by contact by hospital big wigs with Plain Dealer officials in preparation of a follow-up news article.
"We must now inform you that we will no longer advertise in the Call & Post given your recent editorial posturing, which we find to be both offensive and incompatible with our own values and mission," Metro-Health's letter read, in part.
The dispute with Turner and Call and Post officials, that Coleman says she does not endorse, followed the state senator's support of the county reform measure dubbed Issue 6, which voters approved last month. It substitutes the now elected three-member Board of Commissioners and six other non-judicial elected positions with a soon-to-be elected executive and elected 11-member county council. Turner was the only prominent Black politician to back the initiative, one that has become the baby of both the Plain Dealer and county prosecutor Bill Mason. He says that Call and Post officials and the Black leadership that opposed Issue 6, including Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-11), have overlooked its advantage in ridding the county of corruption through a systemic rearrangement of its political infrastructure.
Like other affiliates of Cleveland's Black community Call and Post Associate Publisher and Editor Connie Harper, and its general counsel George Forbes, also president of the Cleveland Chapter NAACP, obviously balked at Mason' s posture, putting Turner in an Aunt Jemima suit for public view. The decision brought a firestorm of controversy and a discussion around race relations too.
“After being diagnosed with high blood pressure I was dragged last year form Metro-Health Hospital to the county jail, threatened over articles, and given a knock-out drug,'” said Coleman, a freelance journalist of 15 years who is now editor of the online Black magazines, The Determiner Weekly. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network. “Thereafter, I was held naked, supervised by a disgruntled male, and released four days later. I was never charged or shall I say maliciously prosecuted by county prosecutor Bill Mason, whom I appreciate for not participating in the potential rape on my person and this unprecedented harassment of a Black woman and journalist.”
Coleman said she was stunned as to how she was treated at Metro-Health where she appeared for chest pains on August 7 of last year, after being illegally arrested upon leaving a Cuyahoga County Justice Center courtroom. She was in the building that day on an unrelated civil hearing before Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell. Erin O' Malley, then the judge's staff attorney, accused O'Donnell earlier this year of setting up the illegal arrest along with Cuyahoga Judge Timothy McGinty. O'Donnell was presiding over a civil case involving a claim and counterclaim with Coleman and Chase Manhattan Mortgage Company, and McGinty was presiding over a civil lawsuit case that Coleman filed following malicious prosecution in Shaker Heights over articles in the Call and Post on alleged housing discrimination against Blacks.
“Judges McGinty and O'Donnell were lobbying for Chase and Shaker Heights without any regard for the law or my rights as a litigant, and getting me arrested criminally when they only had jurisdiction over the civil cases before them gave them brownie points,” said Coleman. “But that is just how corrupt many of the 34 judges in the general division of the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court are. We encourage the FBI to continue its investigation around judicial corruption in Cuyahoga County.”
To get back at her for Mason's failure to maliciously prosecute her Coleman says that Cleveland Law Director Robert Triozzi stepped in. A former Cleveland Municipal Court judge and now an appointee of Jackson, who by city charter provisions would assume the office of mayor if the 62-year old Jackson, for one reason or another, is unable to serve, Triozzi, she says, had her maliciously prosecuted in May of this year as to the Justice Center arrest itself.
“He usurped the role of Chief Prosecutor Victor Perez to get to me anyway he could because he wanted to get to the Call and Post for Jackson and others,” said Coleman, who was charged with aggravated disorderly conduct, obstruction of official business, making a false a alarm by getting sick that day, and resisting the arrest of White male arresting sheriff deputy Gerald Pace, who did not accuse her of it or even attend the two-day trial.
Coleman was exonerated in May by a jury of all but resisting arrest where she says that Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Keough, through corrupt and illegal actions, directed the jury to issue an illegal jury verdict on the resisting arrest charge. This was in spite of the absence of Pace from the trial proceedings and his support of Coleman having not resisted his illegal arrest. According to Coleman and her attorney in the case, the verdict violates her right to confront her non-existent accuser as required via the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Keough, Coleman says, is still harassing her with an illegal warrant, though her attorney has finally decided to move to have it lifted, and said it would be.
“She has no choice but to lift the warrant,” said Wayne Kerek, Coleman's paid attorney in the matter.“I have never seen anything like this.”
In addition to Metro-Health Hospital, the Cleveland area E.F. Boyd Funeral Home, which is Black owned and operated, also has severed ties with the Call and Post for now, an indication that the mainstream establishment is having difficulty pulling support in an effort to destroy Cleveland's most notable Black newspaper, and a historical one at that.
Meanwhile, McGinty made headlines after he recused himself from the Anthony Sowell murder case last week where Sowell is in custody and accused of raping, kidnapping, assaulting and murdering 11 Black women on the now infamous Imperial Ave. in Cleveland. Their remains were allegedly found just days before the Nov. 3 election for mayor of the predominantly Black major metropolitan city.
“Judge McGinty says his work with reform is why he ran from the case, but nothing about this unfair judge, whose dismissal of my lawsuit involving malicious prosecution in Shaker Heights was reinstated last month by the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals, suggest genuine reform efforts,” said Coleman. “ He is a pint- sized phony judge who harasses Blacks and women, violates the law, and routinely criticizes his own colleagues under the guise of reform.”
Cuyahoga Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold, who is Black, was assigned by Cuyahoga Administrative Judge Eileen A. Gallagher to replace McGinty. She had a pre-trial on the Sowell murder case on Wed. where his lawyers caught attention in asking the judge to hold Sowell's insanity pleas in abeyance until further investigation.
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