Community activists to protest today, Dec 3, over 137 bullets shooting death by Cleveland police of Black victims Timothy Ray Russell and Malissa Williams at intersection of Lee and Terrace Roads in East Cleveland, police union leaders are calling it 'a good shooting'



Malissa Williams and Timothy Ray Russell
By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper(www.clevelandurbannews.com)

CLEVELAND,Ohio-Community activists will protest today, Dec 3 at 4 pm at the intersection of Lee and Terrace Roads in East Cleveland over the shooting deaths last week by Cleveland police of Timothy Ray Russell, 43, and Malissa Williams, 30, both Black.

 Some 30 police cars, 13 from Cleveland,  were involved in a 25 minute police chase from the Cuyahoga County Justice Center in Cleveland of the car Russell was driving with Williams as a passenger that went into East Cleveland by Heritage Middle School at Wymore and Terrace Avenues with 137 bullets into the car.

Police have said that police allegedly heard a gunshot. The unprecedented shooting  has outraged the Black community and family members of the two victims that were not wanted by the law but have criminal histories. No gun or gun shell casings were found in or near the car police said, heightening the tension around the incident as Jeffrey Follmer,  president of the Cleveland Police Patolmen's  Association, said the shootings were good shootings in a televised public statement to reporters.

"We want a fair and comprehensive investigation on how these people got shot at 137 times and the union president for Cleveland police can call it a good shooting," said Al Porter, a member of Black on Black Crime] , one of the sponsoring groups of today's protest in East Cleveland along with other grassroots organizations including The Oppressed People's Nation, Revolution Books and The October 22 Coalition Against Police Brutality.

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Comments

Unknown said…
so sad... get justice
Anonymous said…
The Police are not acting in the best interest of the public they serve. Their training has become Militaristic and must be stopped. If the FBI is called in and does a real investigation they will find a lack of Fire Discipline. Yes the Police are going to group up and call it all in a days work. Oboma will call it good. Eric Holder will say good enough. The Mayor will take the heat but no changes will come of it. Press to get the dash board videos and put them on the net. The whole United States is watching.
Unknown said…
its called murder by law enforcement. we would go to jail for life and they get complemented for assasinating citizens!

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