Community activists vote to picket Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, Cleveland NAACP President The Rev. Hilton Smith over 137 bullets Cleveland police deadly shooting, other deadly Cleveland police shootings of unarmed people like Kenneth Smith (AKA Rapper Kenn Ball) and Daniel Ficker,.... upcoming protests of the trio are also due to McGinty, Jackson and Smith's failure to effectively address other community issues such as documented Cuyahoga County foreclosure fraud, judicial impropriety, no jobs for Black people and Black contractors, abduction, rape and murders of women and children, Mayor's failure to implement 27 commission recommendations following The Imperial Avenue Murders.... McGinty took campaign monies and an endorsement from Cleveland police union and is now protecting the White police officers that gunned down Malissa Williams and Tim Russell with 137 bullets from criminal charges,....activists scheduled pickets of Cleveland NAACP and Mayor Jackson will be canceled if Jackson and Smith meet with activists at their inner city meeting place and without a score of White cops for intimidation purposes

Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, 61

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, 67, who is seeking a third four year term as mayor this year.

137 Bullets Cleveland Police Shooting Victim Malissa Williams, 30, unarmed and gunned down by Cleveland police in late 2012

137 Bullets Cleveland Police Shooting Victim Timothy Ray  Russell, 43, unarmed and gunned down by Cleveland police in late 2012

Daniel Ficker, 27, unarmed and gunned down by Cleveland police in 2011

Kenneth Smith (AKA Rapper Kenn Ball), 20, unarmed and gunned down by Cleveland police in 2012

Cleveland NAACP President The Rev. Hilton Smith, 66

Christine Malone, 45, raped and murdered in Cleveland in late March. Her body was found on Cleveland's east side at East 93rd. St and Bessemer Ave. The killer is still at large. Malone has eight children and they say that Cleveland police ignored their missing person's report and allegedly said "call us if you find her." Malone's body was found two days later in a field.

11 Black women were murdered by convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell at this since demolished east side home on Imperial Ave in Cleveland. A three member commission appointed by Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson issued 27 recommendations to deal with missing persons and other matters around the murders. Few of those recommendations have been implemented by police and the Jackson administration. Community activists want a meeting with the mayor for an explanation on the issue and other matters of public concern such as deadly police shootings of unarmed people,  judicial impropriety and unfairness, county foreclosure fraud and police and city officials negligence around the abduction, rape and murder of women and children 

Convicted Serial Killer Anthony Sowell, 52, also known as the Cleveland Strangler relative to the murders of 11 Black women at his home on Imperial Ave on Cleveland's majority Black east side. His 2011 aggravated murder, rape and kidnapping convictions as well as his death sentence are on appeal before the Ohio Supreme Court while he sits on death row. Six of the 11 murdered women were killed by Sowell after he was deliberately released from police custody in 2008. He was arrested again in 2009 following another rape complaint by a Black woman and the second time it stuck. Some Black elected officials and other Black leaders have allegedly begged local female activists groups to forget about the murdered Black women. Mayor Jackson is also accused of  orchestrating malicious prosecutions, and the jailing and police intimidation of Black women activists that speak out on the negligence by his administration and his all non-Black and inept law enforcement leadership team of chief of police, chief city prosecutor, law director, safety director, chief of staff and EMS commissioner around the heinous crime 

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 news venues (www.clevelandurbannews.com) Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473

CLEVELAND,Ohio- Cleveland area community activists groups have voted to picket Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and Cleveland NAACP President The Rev. Hilton Smith, though Smith and Jackson can get a reprieve, activists said, if a meeting date is scheduled to address their community-related concerns at an inner city forum that is void of the typical police harassment and intimidation they sometimes bring with them . Those concerns include the deadly Cleveland police shootings of Malissa Williams,Tim Russell, Daniel Ficker and Kenneth Smith (AKA Rapper Kenn Ball), all of whom were unarmed, foreclosure fraud, judicial impropriety, orchestrated unemployment of Black people and Black contractors, and police negligence around the abduction, rape and murder of women and children across racial lines. (For more information contact Black on Black Crime Inc. at 216-253-4070, The Task Force for Community Mobilization at 216-538-4043 and The Imperial Women at 216-659-0473).

McGinty is under fire for refusing to recuse himself and inturn seek a special prosecutor after taking campaign monies and an endorsement last year from the Cleveland police union relative to his successful bid for Cuyahoga County prosecutor and then refusing to push a county grand jury indictment of a group of Cleveland police officers, 12 White and 1 Hispanic, that gunned down Williams and Russell with an unprecedented 137 bullets on Nov. 29 following a car chase from downtown Cleveland that ended in neighboring East Cleveland. Also, employees of his office like Lily Miller are accused of calling Blacks nigger and then defaming community activists that complain with McGinty's blessing with lies on the Internet and through emails sent on company time in alleged violation of state law. (Editor's Note: The vote to picket McGinty was taken two weeks ago at a Black on Black Crime meeting that included activists groups of Imperial Women, The Carl Stokes Brigade, The Oppressed People's Nation, The Cleveland Chapter of the New Black Panther Party, The People's Forum, People for The Imperial Act, Survivors/Victims of Tragedy, and The Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network. Also there were members of The Task Force for Community Mobilization, a grassroots group led by Community Activist Khalid Samad that has a petition of over 1,300 signatures to date for McGinty's recusal in the  Williams-Russell case).  

Activists voted at a meeting on Thursday to ask Jackson to meet with them to explain why police have not been charged relative to the Williams-Russell shooting and other shootings of unarmed people like Kenneth Smith and Daniel Ficker They are also upset about alleged impropriety around the rape and murder in March of Christine Malone, and  police harassment of Imperial Women members at peaceful protests. Activists say they also will discuss the failure of police and the Jackson administration to implement the 27 recommendations issued by the mayor's three-member commission. That commission, that does not include community activists, was formed in 2009 around the Imperial Avenue Murders of 11 Black women on Imperial Ave by convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell. 

Two other pickets by Imperial Women .at the mayor's home in the city's Central Neighborhood, both held in the last four years, dealt with the Imperial Avenue Murders.

Rev Smith took the helm as Cleveland NAACP president this year and according to activists is doing what White folks and some sellout greater Cleveland Black elected officials are telling him to do , and allegedly to the detriment of the Black community. Activists, many of whom are dues paying members of the organization, want a meeting with Smith as repeatedly promised, regular committee meetings, and for the group to stand for jobs, and against the gunning down of unarmed innocent people by Cleveland police, documented Cuyahoga County foreclosure fraud, judicial impropriety and the abduction, rape and murders of women and children. (Editors Note: The latter include Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, Michelle Knight, the 11 Imperial Ave. murdered women and Malone).