Community activists to protest today, Dec 3, over 137 bullets shooting death by Cleveland police of Black victims Timothy Ray Russell and Malissa Williams at intersection of Lee and Terrace Roads in East Cleveland, police union leaders are calling it 'a good shooting'
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Malissa Williams and Timothy Ray Russell |
CLEVELAND,Ohio-Community activists will protest today, Dec 3 at 4 pm at the intersection of Lee and Terrace Roads in East Cleveland over the shooting deaths last week by Cleveland police of Timothy Ray Russell, 43, and Malissa Williams, 30, both Black.
Some 30 police cars, 13 from Cleveland, were involved in a 25 minute police chase from the Cuyahoga County Justice Center in Cleveland of the car Russell was driving with Williams as a passenger that went into East Cleveland by Heritage Middle School at Wymore and Terrace Avenues with 137 bullets into the car.
Police have said that police allegedly heard a gunshot. The unprecedented shooting has outraged the Black community and family members of the two victims that were not wanted by the law but have criminal histories. No gun or gun shell casings were found in or near the car police said, heightening the tension around the incident as Jeffrey Follmer, president of the Cleveland Police Patolmen's Association, said the shootings were good shootings in a televised public statement to reporters.
"We want a fair and comprehensive investigation on how these people got shot at 137 times and the union president for Cleveland police can call it a good shooting," said Al Porter, a member of Black on Black Crime] , one of the sponsoring groups of today's protest in East Cleveland along with other grassroots organizations including The Oppressed People's Nation, Revolution Books and The October 22 Coalition Against Police Brutality.
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