Cleveland City Council to hold final public meeting on DOJ report on police killings and other police brutality on January 20 at 6 pm at Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church in Cleveland, the meeting comes on heels of MLK day protests in Cleveland for Tamir Rice, Tanisha Anderson, and against police killings
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| Cleveland Ward 9 Councilman Kevin Conwell |
CLEVELAND, Ohio- The final meeting of four scheduled open-to-the public community sessions sponsored by Cleveland City Council's safety committee in response to a U.S. Department of Justice report that found systemic problems in the Cleveland Police Department will be held in Cleveland Ward 9 on Tuesday, January 20, at 6 pm at Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church, 1161 East 105th Street.
Ward 9 is located on the city's largely Black east side and is
represented by Councilman Kevin Conwell, former chair and now co-chair of the safety committee.
In addition to Conwell, several members of the 17-member Cleveland City Council are expected to attend the community forum, including Jeff Johnson, Zack Reed, Mamie Mitchell, Terrell Pruitt, Phyllis Cleveland, Safety Committee Chairman Matt Zone, and Council President Kevin Kelley.
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| The Rev. Dr. E. Theophilus Caviness |
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| Cleveland NAACP President, the Rev. Hilton Smith |
The meeting is part of city council's listening tour on police brutality issues and comes on the heels of Martin Luther King Day protests held yesterday and sponsored by the grassroots groups Puncture the Silence, Revolution Books and the Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, among others.
Protesters rallied on the holiday of the slain Civil Rights leader
for 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was shot and killed late last year by Cleveland police for sporting a toy pellet gun at a park on the city's west side, and for Tanisha Anderson.
The unarmed Anderson was killed by Cleveland police in November following an altercation at her home on the city's east side, after her family called for an ambulance for non-violent mental health reasons.
Anderson was slammed to the ground and killed by a Black cop while citing the Lord's Prayer, and Rice was gunned down by a rookie White police officer.
Both Riceand Anderson, 37, were Black.
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| U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder |
A consent decree between the city of Cleveland and the federal government, and designed to address the DOJ findings, is in the workings.
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| Tamir Rice |
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| Tanisha Anderson |
The night of November 29, 2012 13 non-Black Cleveland police officers gunned down unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell slinging 137 bullets following a car chase that began in Cleveland and ended in neighboring East Cleveland. Both Russell and Williams were homeless at the time, but not wanted by the law.
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