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Community Activist Kathy Wray Coleman speaks to reporters Friday night, November 29, 2013, at Heritage Middle School in East Cleveland at a first anniversary rally and vigil for justice for Malissa Williams and Tim Russell, both Black, both unarmed, and both shot at 137 times and killed by 13 White Cleveland police officers, photo by Community Activist Laura Cowan, at the rally Coleman called for Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty and Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine to push for an indictment of criminal charges against the police officers or to 'step down' from their political jobs, Plain Dealer Newspaper, the Northeast Ohio Media Group, and Cleveland news channels 5, 3, 8 and 19 cover event

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Photo by Community Activist Laura Cowan, a domestic violence and rape survivor and computer analyst at the Cuyahoga County Metropolitan Housing Authority in Cleveland.  CLEVELAND, Ohio-Community Activist Kathy Wray Coleman speaks before reporters on Nov. 29, 2013 at Heritage Middle School in East Cleveland, Ohio at the first anniversary rally and vigil for gunned down unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Tim Russell, both shot with 137 b ullets heading at them following a Cleveland police car chase that began in downtown Cleveland and ended in neighboring East Cleveland on Nov. 29, 2012.  Read the story on this event at  www.clevelandurbannews.com . Pictured to the right of Ms. Coleman in the red hat is the mother of Malissa Williams, and in the wheelchair is Malissa Williams' grandmother. Also pictured is Community Activist Ernie Smith, in the yellow shirt, of the Oppressed People's Nation, who led the rally and vigil, both organized by several groups including Black on Blac

Plain Dealer and NOMG article on November 29 first anniversary rally and vigil of deadly 137 shots tragic shooting of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Tim Russell by 13 all non-Black Cleveland police officers, also get this Plain Dealer article on the stands today, November 30, 2013

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By  Cory Shaffer | Northeast Ohio Media Group   (NOMG) Email the author  |  Follow on Twitter   on November 29, 2013 at 2:30 PM, updated  November 29, 2013 at 9:40 PM Malissa Williams and Tim Russell CLEVELAND, Ohio – The number 137 is standing out to many community groups in Cleveland like few others. That’s the number of shots 13 Cleveland  police officers fired at Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams a year ago Friday , ending a 25-minute police chase across Cleveland into neighboring East Cleveland. And 365 days later, some of those  community groups  say they have seen little done to correct “the worst catastrophe in the police department’s history.” ( Read on below or  CLICK THIS LINK HERE TO READ THE FULL PLAIN DEALER STORY AT CLEVELAND.COM AND TO WATCH THE ASSOCIATED VIDEO  ) “Ninety percent of the people we talk to in the community feel that Malissa and Timothy have not gotten any justice,” said Art McKoy, founder of Black On Black Crime. The r