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Community activists target Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty at April 29 Cleveland City Hall 150 persons rally on November deadly 137 bullets police chase, Mayor Jackson blames McGinty for delay in possible police firings, FEDS forum held across town with U.S. district attorney, NAACP, ACLU, watch the coverage of the City Hall rally here with video by 19 Action News Reporter Tiffiani Tucker, activists threaten Mayor Frank Jackson with voting him out of office this year if the 13 all non-Black Cleveland police officers that gunned down unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Tim Russell with 137 bullets are not fired

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Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson U.S. District Attorney Steve Dettelbach Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty Ohio ACLU Legal Director James Hardiman Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Sheila Wright Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church Senior Pastor The Rev.  Larry Harris Black on Black Crime Inc. Founder and Community Activist Art McKoy Black on Black Crime Vice President  and Community Activist Al Porter (center) and other members of the grassroots community group that fights against injustices. Community Activist Don Bryant, who leads The People's Forum and The Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network. Bryant and other community activists called for Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty to bring in a special prosecutor at a Cleveland City Hall rally on Monday. The demand for McGinty's recusal is  relative to the possible Cuyahoga County Grand Jury indictment of Cleveland police officers who gunned down two unarmed Blacks w

Was the deadly 137 bullets Cleveland police shooting of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell self defense or murder?... Watch the 19 Action News coverage by Reporter Dan Deroos with the affiliated news video here at Cleveland Urban News.com.... Deroos and News Channels 3, 5, and 8 all were there at the April 24 rally that addressed that question, a rally led by Imperial Women Leader Kathy Wray Coleman that drew some 300 people and was sponsored by Imperial Women, Black on Black Crime Inc., The Oppressed People's Nation, and other activists groups at the Chateau Mansion in East Cleveland ...Community activists and victims family members will rally again on April 29 at 6 pm in front of Cleveland City Hall... (Note: The April 24 rally also dealt with unjustified Cleveland police shootings of Kenneth Smith and Daniel Ficker, and the unsolved rape and murders of Black women Jazmine Trotter and Christine Malone, issues that will also be addressed at the upcoming April 29, Cleveland City Hall rally)

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A woman holds up a protest sign at a rally at Public Square in downtown Cleveland that highlights that unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Tim Russell were gunned down with 137 rounds of ammunition by a group of White Cleveland police officers that have yet to be criminally charged and are still on the job. The unprecedented shooting occurred late last year following a car chase that ultimately culminated in 65 police cars and over 100 police officers. The chase began from a downtown Cleveland location and ended in neighboring East Cleveland with a hail of bullets. One police officer jumped on the hood of the 1979 Chevy Malibu that Russell was driving with Williams as a passenger and shot through the front windshield over 40 times.  Community activists and victims family members will  hold another of several protests over the issue that has caused racial unrest and has increased tensions between police and the Black community at 6 pm on April 29 at Cleveland City Hall (Next to the w

Upcoming April 29, 6 pm Cleveland City Hall mass rally by community activists and victims families on deadly 137 bullets Cleveland police chase, other fatal police shootings and the rape and murders of Black women makes national news. Read the article here with comments by Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGrath and Community Activist and Imperial Women Leader Kathy Wray Coleman. Rally sponsoring groups include The Imperial Women, Black on Black Crime Inc., The Oppressed People's Nation (OPN), The Task Force for Community Mobilization, and Peace in the Hood

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Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black news venues  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) Below is an April 25 national and  international news article on the upcoming   April 29, 6 pm mass protest at Cleveland City Hall by community activists and victims families as to  deadly  Cleveland police  shootings  of unarmed people, including 137 bullets Black victims Malissa Williams, 30, and Tim Russell  Russell, 43 (both pictured above). The below article is published by both Yahoo News.Com and the Reuters European Newspaper, one of the world's oldest newspapers that is headquartered in London and the United Kingdom with thousands of reporters, some stationed throughout the U.S (Note: The mass rally will also address Cleveland police unjustified killings of other people like aspiring rapper Kenneth Smith, 20, (music name Kenneth Ball), and Daniel Fick

Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald to run for Ohio Governor in 2014, will announce it tomorrow and he will likely run against Republican Governor John Kasich, FitzGerald must first win the Democratic primary next year with Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern as his chief supporter, State Senator Turner likely to run for Ohio Secretary of State on ticket with FitzGerald

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Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black news venues  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-Democratic Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald, a former FBI agent, will make stops in Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati on Wednesday April 24 to announce that he will run for governor of Ohio in 2014 against incumbent governor John Kasich, if he wins the Democratic primary. And that might be a likely posture since his candidacy is supported by Chris Redfern, head of the Ohio Democratic Party, and perspective contenders such as former Ohio Congresswoman Betty Sutton, and former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, now the U.S. Consumer Bureau chief, have bowed out. Chris Redfern Kasich is the front runner polls show and is ahead of FitzGerald by 10 points. But political polls can and often do change during the course of an election a

Press Conference at 5:15 pm, April 24, PIZZZA AND REFRESHMENTS TO FIRST 80 PEOPLE THERE...Cleveland NAACP President The Rev. Hilton Smith to join group at 5:30 pm as a guest leader of community forum with Imperial Women, community activists, family members of deadly Cleveland police shootings victims and families of Black women murdered and raped in Cleveland on Wednesday, April 24 at the Chateau Mansion in East Cleveland, 13124 Euclid Ave, Rev David Hunter, who leads the Cleveland NAACP Housing Committee, will be there, POLICE NOT INVITED, press conference and meeting are both at the Chateau, previous Cleveland NAACP picket canceled (Note: Speakers at the press conference include Attorney Terry Gilbert, who represents gunned down Cleveland police victims Tim Russell, Daniel Ficker and Kenneth Smith, the families of Smith Ficker and 137 bullets shooting victim Malissa Williams, a daughter and son of raped and murder victim Christine Malone, who was killed late last month and has eight children, East Cleveland Councilman Nate Martin and Community Activists Khalid Samad, Al Porter, Roz McAllister, Donna Walker Brown, and Kathy Wray Coleman), Cleveland Ward 6 Councilwoman Mamie Mitchell to attend, meeting is open to the public, Cleveland Councilmen Johnson, Reed and Conwell invited too and activists pray that they do not need permission from Cleveland police to attend, activists expect them there

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137 bullets Cleveland police shooting victims Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell, both gunned down on Nov. 29 by a group of White Cleveland police officers following a car chase from downtown Cleveland that led police to neighboring East Cleveland. Both were unarmed and no criminal charges against the police assailants that are still on the job seem  imminent.  Jazmine Trotter, 20, raped and murdered in Cleveland late last month. Her lifeless body was found in an abandoned home on the city's predominantly Black east side.  Christine Malone, 45, raped and murdered in Cleveland late last month. Her body was also found on Cleveland's east side at East 93rd. St and Bessemer Ave. days after Trotter's body was found less than a mile away. Malone has eight children and they say that Cleveland police ignored their missing person's report and allegedly said "call us if you find her." Malone's body was found two days later in a field, her family m

Three dead, 144 injured, 29 critically, in Boston Marathon terrorist attack, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty ran Boston Marathon today, witnesses say explosion was a flash back to Iraq, President Obama comments

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Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor-in-Chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) BOSTON, MA- At least three people are confirmed dead,  including an 8-year-old  boy, and at least 144 injured, 29 critically, following a terrorist attack with two high explosive bombs at the Boston Marathon. The first explosion hit at 2:50 pm today and a second explosion went off 12 seconds later, police said. United States President Barack Obama "Make no mistake, we will get to the bottom of this," said President Obama during a press conference after the attack.  "Any responsible individuals, any responsible groups will feel the full wait of justice." One witness said the situation looked like Iraq in 2005 and 2006 with people with their limbs blown off, and "lots of smoke and lots of blood." Police said that there were at least two bomb devices, and possibly a third.  Law enforcement authorities h

Updated: Community activists to picket Cleveland NAACP at 5:00 pm on April 25 if legal redress committee meeting to address deadly Cleveland police shootings, Cuyahoga County foreclosure fraud, judicial corruption, jobs, etc is not scheduled by next week as promised by the chair of the legal redress committee for the past nine weeks, community activists say that Legal Redress Committee Chairperson Una Keenon should either hold a meeting as promised or that she and Cleveland NAACP President Hilton Smith should both step down, activists also plan to picket office of county prosecutor Tim McGinty over deadly shootings

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137 bullets Cleveland police shooting victims Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell, both gunned down on Nov. 29 by a group of White Cleveland police officers following a car chase from downtown Cleveland that led police to neighboring East Cleveland. Both were unarmed and no criminal charges against the police assailants that are still on the job seem  imminent By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ). CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Imperial Women and other community activists groups have voted to picket the offices of the Cleveland NAACP On April 25 at its headquarters at 2131 Stokes Blvd. in Cleveland if an open legal redress committee meeting to address deadly shootings by Cleveland police, Cuyahoga County foreclosure fraud, judicial impropriety and a host of other community issues that NAACP officials promised to hold for the past nine weeks is not scheduled by next week.  "We have been patient enough," said Ka