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City of Cleveland Brings Misdemeanor Charges Againt Protesting Collinwood High Student After Mason Drops Felony Police Assault Charge

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Cleveland Law Director Robert Triozzi Tina Bronaugh and Daughter and Cleveland Collinwwod High School Student Destini Bronaugh From the Metro Desk of the Determiner Weekly.com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network Cleveland Law Director Robert Triozzi has allegedly retaliated against Collinwood High School teen Destini Bronaugh for a dismissal last week by Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason on behalf of the State of Ohio of a bogus felony charge of two counts of assault on a police officer and misdemeanor resisting arrest that were pending against the girl. On behalf of the predominantly Black City of Cleveland Triozzi, on Tuesday, brought the same misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest that Mason dropped last week, and because Mason also dropped the felony assault charge, Triozzi added an obstruction of official business charge. The two new charges brought by Triozzi for the city are both misdemeanors. Absent a dismissal, misdemeanor charges are prosecuted b

Ohio Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Mason's Appeal Of Appellate Decision That He Produce Alleged Confidential Informant In Art McKoy Drug Case

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Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason Community Activist Art McKoy By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday denied leave to appeal and refused to hear an appeal sought by Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason on behalf of the State of Ohio where the county prosecutor challenged a decision earlier this year by the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals. That decision supports a previous order by Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Nancy Margaret Russo, the trial judge in the case, for Mason to immediately give the attorneys for community activist Art McKoy the name of the alleged confidential informant against him so that they can prepare him for any trial relative to a pending drug case. "Upon consideration of the jurisdictional memoranda filed in this case, the Court denies leave to appeal and dismisses the appeal as not involving any substantial constitutiona

Mother Of Black Collinwood High School Student To Hold Press Conference With Community Activists After Police Assault Charge Is Dismissed

From the Metro Desk of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network Press Release sent June 27, 2010 Contacts: Tina Bronaugh at 216-253-6484 and Kathy Wray Coleman at 216-932-3114 To: All Media Who: Tina Bronaugh, mother of arrested protesting Black female Collinwood High School students Destini and DeAsia Bronaugh, community members and grassroots factions. What: Press Conference on the sidewalk in front of Collinwood High School that is sponsored by the Bronaugh family with the support of area grassroots factions and others. When: Monday, June 28, 2010 at 1 pm Where: On the sidewalk in front of Cleveland's Collinwood High School, 15210 St. Claire Ave. in Cleveland, Oh. Why: It is in response to the dismissal on Wednesday at the request of Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason of two felony counts of assault on a peace officer and resisting arrest against Collinwood High School student Destini Bronaugh that came in retaliation for particip

Judge Dick Ambrose Dismisses Charge Against Black Female Student Of Police Assault At Request Of Prosecutor Mason And As Racial Unrest Was Mounting

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Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Dick Ambrose Tina Bronaugh and Daughter and Cleveland Collinwood High School Student Destini Bronaugh From the Metro Desk of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Dick Ambrose on Wednesday granted a request by Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason's office to dismiss charges of two counts of assault on a peace officer and resisting arrest against Collinwood High School student Destini Bronaugh, bringing the case to a current close. The dismissal comes less than a week after a Cuyahoga County Grand Jury indicted the Black girl, who was arrested May 13 along with her younger sister, DeAsia Bronaugh, in what community activists and local Civil Rights organizations say is retaliation for participating in an organized student walkout at Collinwood High School in Cleveland around teacher layoffs and the slated closings of what is now 14 of Cleveland'

Mother Of Black Collinwood High School Student Indicted For Allegedly Assaulting White Police Officer Speaks Out And Seeks Meeting With Mayor Jackson

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Tina Bronaugh and Daughter and Cleveland Collinwood High School Student Destini Bronaugh By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network (Editors Note: A legal defense fund titled "Bronaugh Girls Benevolent Fund" has been set up for donations at Key Bank nationally for Cleveland Collinwood High School Students Destini and DeAsia Bronaugh. The article below touches on their dilemma) The mother of a Black Cleveland schools student indicted last week by a Cuyahoga County Grand Jury and charged with felony assault on a White male Cleveland Fifth District police officer following an arrest in connection with a student protest is speaking out in support of her daughter. Tina Bronaugh, 41, the mother of 19-year-old indicted Collinwood High School student Destini Bronaugh, who is slated to graduate this summer, has stepped up as an articulate spokesperson for the Bronaugh family after a brutal arrest outside of t

Prosecutor Mason Secures Extension For Judge McGinty To Respond To Affidavit Of Prejudice In What Attorney For Journalist Calls A Conflict Of Interest

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Cyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason Newly Appointed Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Eric Brown Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Timothy McGinty Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman From the Metro Desk of the Determiner Weekly.com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason has secured a 30 day extension for Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Timothy McGinty to respond to an affidavit of prejudice filed against him on June 2 by Cleveland area Black Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman for determination by Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Eric Brown. McGinty is presiding over a lawsuit originally brought by Coleman against the cities of Shaker Hts. and Beachwood, Oh. , retired businesswoman Myrna R. Gill, Beachwood and Shaker Hts. Law Director Margaret Anne Cannon, and a host of other defendants. It alleges malicious prosecution and other claims following

Clerk Turner Agrees To Correct Illegal Case Docket Before Judge Keough If Black Journalist Illegally Puts Something In Writing

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Cleveland Municipal Clerk of Court Earle B. Turner Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough From the Metro Desk of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network Cleveland Municipal Clerk of Court Earle B. Turner has agreed, with conditions, to change an erroneous case docket date that falsely and fraudulently denotes that a document filed on May 22, 2009 was filed on May 26, 2009 regarding a criminal matter before Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough. The judge presided over what community activists are calling a malicious prosecution of local Black journalist Kathy Wray Coleman and is accused of directing Turner and his staff to falsify the case docket so that the document would be seen as filed untimely relative to any appeal by Coleman. Following a two day trial held last May before Keough, a jury found Coleman not guilty of misdemeanor charges of aggravated disorderly conduct, making false alarms, and obstruction of

Junteenth Rally In Support Of Community Activist Art McKoy To Be Held Saturday At 5 pm At Black On Black Crime Headquarters

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Community Activist Art McKoy By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network Cleveland area community members and grassroots factions such as the People's Forum, the Carl Stokes Brigade, the Imperial Women, the Oppressed People's Nation and the Lucasville Uprising Freedom Network will rally on June 19 at 5 pm at Black on Black Crime Inc's headquarters at McCall's at 14660 Euclid Ave in East Cleveland to denounce what some community activists say is the malicious prosecution by the State of Ohio of respected longtime community activist Art McKoy. The date is consequential because it is the anniversary of "Junteenth," an annual recognition of the day in 1865 in which slaves on a plantation in Texas were told that they were free in accordance with a proclamation from then U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, though most other slaves had been freed two years earlier in 1863 when Lincoln signed the

Activists To Protest Before Pretrial Before New Judge Where Black Woman Is Charged With Assaulting Police Accused Of Calling Her Nigger

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Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Daniel Gaul Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Administrative and Presiding Judge Nancy Fuerst Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Kathleen Sutula Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Stuart Friedman From the Metro Desk of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network Cleveland area grassroots organizations, including the Oppressed People's Nation, the Lucasvile Uprising Freedom Network, Black on Black Crime and the Carl Stokes Brigade, will protest on Thursday, June 17 at 8 am in front of the Justice Center in support of a young Black woman charged with assaulting two White male Cleveland Fifth District police officers. The case has generated unusual local attention because the girl is said to have been unnecessarily beaten and called a "nigger" by police in question prior to the filing by prosecutors of the assault charge, and other charges, all called bogus by the wom

Clerk of Court Earle Turner Corrects Defamatory Case Docket Entry Angering Judge Keough Relative To Her Harassment of A Black Journalist

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Cleveland Municipal Clerk of Court Earle B. Turner Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough From the Metro Desk of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network Cleveland Municipal Clerk of Court Earle B. Turner has corrected a false and defamatory notation on the website case docket of Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough that says that African-American Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman was convicted of aggravated disorderly conduct, though Coleman has no criminal record and has never been convicted of a crime. Coleman said that the illegal notation, which she views as felony activity of tampering with a public record, was removed by Turner's Chief of Staff, Ron Tabor, on Friday, after Coleman said she would sue and contact the press. Keough is allegedly angry over the correction where she has written an entry on the case docket that falsified data as to the filings of documents on Coleman's behalf should not be co

Black Journalist To Sue Cleveland Municipal Clerk of Court Earle B Turner For Alleged Retaliation For Her Pending Lawsuit Againt Judge Keough

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Cleveland Municipal Clerk of Court Earle B. Turner Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough From the Metro Desk of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network Cleveland Municipal Clerk of Court Earle B. Turner could be sued next week by African-American journalist Kathy Wray Coleman for alleged tampering with public records and defamation where he has again falsely put on the Cleveland Municipal Court website that Coleman has been convicted of or is currently charged with aggravated disorderly conduct when no such conviction or charge exist. Coleman, who has no criminal record, says the activity is in retaliation for a lawsuit filed last month in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas that is before Cuyahoga Judge John Russo and names Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough as one of several defendants. "Earle B. Turner is in my opinion a lazy and corrupt Cleveland Municipal Clerk of Court who routinely has his e

Sutula Rejects Judge Fuerst's Personal Assignment To Replace Friedman Where Black Woman Is Accused Of Assault On Police Accused Of Calling Her Nigger

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Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Administrative and Presiding Judge Nancy Fuerst Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Kathleen Sutula Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Stuart Friedman By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Kathleen Sutula has rejected a personal assignment by Cuyahoga Administrative Judge Nancy Fuerst to replace Cuyahoga Judge Stuart Friedman in a controversial case involving a Black young woman on trial for allegedly assaulting two White male Cleveland police officers accused of beating the girl and calling her a "nigger." Friedman stepped down from the case last month in the middle of jury selection after vowing that he is not a racist and in response to criticism from members of local activists organizations that he was allegedly harassing them and permitting prosecutors in the case to telephone witnesses for t

Christian Michael, A Successful Young Black Leader

Christian Michael Baldwin is 9 years old and likes to study math. His hobby is drawing and his favorite person is President Obama. He has a dog named Hilliary and got all A's and made the honor roll at school.

National Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign Rally In Cleveland Around The Murders Of 11 Black Women On Cleveland's Imperial Avenue

From the Metro Desk of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network The Northeast Ohio Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, which is under the leadership of Larry Bresler, will host its national venue where members and activists of the regional and national group will rally with local grassroots organizations and others in Cleveland, Oh. from June 5 to June 8 beginning with a rally and march on June 5 at 1 pm in front of the Anthony Sowell house on Imperial Ave. in Cleveland where the remains of 11 Black women were found late last year. The National Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign was founded to unify poor people across racial lines and to address issues impacting the poor in areas such as homelessness, education, housing, justice system issues, safety and healthcare. This year's agenda includes a "March for the Dream" as the group has traveled to over 18 cities in the United States to promote the dre

Affidavit of Prejudice Filed Against Judge McGinty At Ohio Supreme Court As To His Alleged Harassment Of Black Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman

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Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Timothy McGinty Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman From the Metro Desk of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog and Media Network An affidavit of prejudice was filed on June 2 with Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Eric Brown seeking the immediate removal of controversial Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Timothy McGinty from a case as to a lawsuit alleging malicious prosecution of a Cleveland area Black female journalist who says the judge had her illegally jailed in the Cuyahoga County jail in 2008 without jurisdiction or any other authority for the purpose of assisting the powerful entities and all White defendants in the lawsuit. Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman holds no punches in moving for McGinty's removal where he is presiding over a lawsuit that he threw out in 2008 that was reinstated last year by the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals against Retired Beachwood business woman Myrna R. Gill. Th