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Community activists, victims family members to host the 2nd Anniversary of the 137 Shots Cleveland Police Shooting Rally and Vigil, 5 pm, November 29, 2014 Heritage Middle School in East Cleveland, Russell, Williams families to attend, By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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An array of Cleveland police cars chase two unarmed Blacks from downtown Cleveland to neighboring East Cleveland the night of November  29 , 2012. The 23 minute car chase ended in the parking lot of Heritage Middle School in East Cleveland and culminated in 13 non- Black Cleveland police officers firing a total of 137 bullets at unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams 30, and Timothy Ray Russell, 43, the driver of the 1979 Chevy Malibu. Both Russell and Williams died at the scene. Activists and victims family members will rally and hold a vigil beginning at 4 pm  at Heritage middle school on Saturday, November 29 to mark the second anniversary of the tragic  incident. The rally will also address other victims of deadly force by the largely White Cleveland Police Department. Cleveland police fatal shooting victim Malissa Williams Cleveland police fatal shooting victim Timothy Russell Cleveland police fatal killing victim Tanisha Anderson Cleveland police fatal 12

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

By Kathy Wray Coleman: Community activists groups, victims, victims family members of police brutality, Black elected officials to host "The First Anniversary of the Cleveland Police 137 Shots and Stop Police Brutality Rally and Candlelight Vigil" on Friday, Nov 29, 2013, 5 pm, outside of Heritage Middle School in East Cleveland at 14410 Terrace Rd., community activists to call for 13 non-Black police officers that gunned down unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Tim Russell to be criminally charged, Attorney Terry Gilbert, who represents the Russell estate, said the 13 cops should "at least be charged with negligent homicide"

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News.Com and  The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and   No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) and  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  Reach us by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at   editor@clevelandurbannews.com CLEVELAND, Ohio- Community activists groups, victims and victims family members of police brutality, and Black elected officials will host "The First Anniversary of the Cleveland Police 137 Shots and Stop Police Brutality Rally and Candlelight Vigil" on Friday, November 29, 2013, at 5 pm outside of Heritage Middle School in East Cleveland at 14410 Terrace Road. Friday marks the first anniversary of the gunning down by 13 all non-Black Cleveland cops of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams, 30, and Timothy Russell, 43, both of whom were killed on November 29, 2012 following a car chase that began in downtown Cleveland and ended at Heritage Middle Schoo