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


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 bullets 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 Black Crime, the Oppressed People's Nation, Survivors/Victims of Tragedy, Revolution Books and the Imperial Women Activists Group. To the left of Coleman in the picture are Community Activist Terrie Tolefree (holding the red, Black and green flag) and NewNet5.Com Reporter Stephanie Ramirez (in white hat). At the event Coleman, on behalf of the Imperial Women Activists Group that she leads, called for Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty and Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine to be aggressive in pursuit of an indictment of criminal charges by the Cuyahoga County Grand Jury of the police officers. Coleman called McGinty and Dewine "discrepancy models in the case who should either do their jobs or step down." The case is currently before a county grand jury. Nearly 100 community activists, victims of police brutality and other community affiliates attended the gathering. Also at the rally attorneys for the victims called for justice with Cleveland Attorney Terry Gilbert, who represents the estate of Tim Russell, previously telling Cleveland Urban News.Com that the 13 non-Black police officers at issue "should at least be charged with negligent homicide." Local media covering the event include the Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper, the Northeast Ohio Media Group, and Cleveland television news channels 5, 3, 19, and 8

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