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Democrats Jennifer Brunner and John O'Donnell to run for separate Ohio Supreme Court seats in 2020, O'Donnell still under fire for acquitting ex-Cleveland cop Michael Brelo of manslaughter charges after he gunned down two unarmed Blacks with 49 bullets, the judge losing a 2016 bid for the state's high court by less than one percent after Black Cleveland elected officials, led by Councilman Kevin Conwell, rallied voters against him regarding the Brelo verdict, which followed a bench trial....O'Donnell is also under fire for stealing homes from county residents for JPMorgan Chase Bank via illegal foreclosures....Justice Melody Stewart is the sole Black on the Ohio Supreme Court, and the first Black and first Black female elected to that court, which is led by Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor, the court's first female chief justice....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog

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Ohio 10th District Court of Appeals Judge Jennifer Brunner, also a former Ohio secretary of state, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell, and Cleveland Ward 9 Councilman Kevin Conwell, Brunner and O'Donnell seeking election in 2020 as Democrats to two seats on the seven-member Ohio Supreme Court, currently of which is majority Republican, and has one Black justice, Democratic Justice Melody Stewart  By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief  at   Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ,  Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog.  Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.   Coleman is an experienced Black political reporter who covered the 2008 presidential election for the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio and the presidential elections in 2012 and 2016 As to the one-on-one interview by Coleman with Obama   CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S

All Black East Cleveland jury finds Cleveland police supervisor Patricia Coleman not guilty in '137 shots' dereliction of duty case where two unarmed Blacks were gunned down by 13 non-Black Cleveland cops shooting 137 bullets following a police chase from Cleveland to East Cleveland....Cleveland activist Kathy Wray Coleman, who organized rallies around the '137 shots' shooting with activists Art McKoy and Alfred Porter Jr., said the acquittal is "unfortunate for the Black community and our fight against excessive force and police negligence and malfeasance and if innocent Blacks had representative counsel and fair judges and prosecutors when we are maliciously prosecuted our people might not get erroneously convicted and illegally imprisoned so frequently and so easily by our racist legal system"....Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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Pictured above is Cleveland Police Sgt. Patricia Coleman , who was acquitted by an all Black East Cleveland jury on Friday of a second degree misdemeanor charge of dereliction of duty, Coleman, singled out among a host of police supervisors and high ranking law enforcement personnel of Cleveland and prosecuted in a celebrated case where 13 non- Black Cleveland cops gunned down two unarmed Blacks following a police chase from downtown Cleveland to neighboring East Cleveland. All of the 13 shooter cops were men, and they went free too, including since fired cop Michael Brelo, the only cop charged of the 13 shooters and of whom was acquitted of voluntary  manslaughter charges in a bench trial before Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell. Hence, the Black community is left without accountability in one of the most notorious cases of excessive force by Cleveland police Cleveland activist Kathy Wray Coleman of the Imperial Women Coalition speaks to the mai

Activists to protest as Cleveland police supervisors go on trial in East Cleveland as to the fatal chase from Cleveland to East Cleveland, the two supervisors facing dereliction of duty charges with Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and Police Chief Calvin Williams subpoenaed to testify...."We invite people to the sleepover in front of the East Cleveland courthouse and to the trial in East Cleveland," said activist Art McKoy....Activist Kathy Wray Coleman, who organized rallies around the shooting with McKoy, called the tragic killings by Cleveland police "execution-style and senseless and irresponsible".... Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell, both of them unarmed, were both gunned down following the chase that culminated in 13 non-Black Cleveland cops shooting 137 bullets into the car driven by Russell, 43, with Williams, 30, as a passenger....All 13 of the shooter cops went free and the 2 Cleveland police supervisors face dereliction of duty charges for allegedly failing to control the chase....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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Cleveland activist Kathy Wray Coleman of the Imperial Women Coalition speaks to the mainstream media at a rally for justice for unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams, 30, and Timothy Russell, 43, that she organized with activists Art McKoy and Alfred Porter Jr., both Russell and Williams gunned down by 13 non-Black Cleveland cops slinging 137 bullets following a high speed chase from downtown Cleveland to neighboring East Cleveland, all of the 13 shooting cops going free as two police supervisors face trial in East Cleveland Municipal Court on July 15, 2019 on misdemeanor dereliction of duty charges for allegedly failing to control the deadly chase. To Coleman's direct right are the mother of Williams (wearing red hat) and her mother's sister, who has since died. Coleman says she has been harassed by cops, and judges, among others, for organizing rallies around the killings of Williams and Russell by Cleveland police and called them "execution-style and senseless and i