Landscaper harassed by 5 White University Heights cops at home of journalist and community activist Kathy Wray Coleman, the same 5 cops tried to gun Coleman down a week earlier per the directive of mentally unhinged Cuyahoga County Judge John O'Donnell.... O'Donnell stalked Coleman for 12 years using a civil case with no plaintiff (Cuyahoga County Case Number CV03505359) and tried to steal her $140,000 home for JPMorgan Chase Bank under a fake name for $36,000 without it suing her, and allegedly also for a Plain Dealer Newspaper reporter too....Coleman said O'Donnell is getting more aggressive and needs help for mental illness.... The Economic Crimes Unit has advised Coleman to file a police report against O'Donnell calling his actions "public corruption".... Miranda Hamrick of the law firm of Lerner, Sampson and Rothfuss told the court that her client Chase is Coleman's mortgage company and the case O'Donnell has been using for 12 years has no plaintiff or mortgage company, but O'Donnell still kept up the harassment....O'Donnell also ignored the demand by the sheriff's office to back-off....Though not over any criminal case, O'Donnell had Coleman jailed in the county in 2008 with no charges and stripped with retired Judge Sara Harper, the third vice president of the Cleveland NAACP, rescuing her.... Harper says that she believes they are trying to kill Coleman....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news
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Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell |
CLEVELAND, Ohio-Continuing their racism, public corruption and police brutality lodged for 12 years against Black resident, activist and journalist Kathy Wray Coleman, five White University Heights cops have harassed Coleman's landscaper, all of them with guns or rifles, and one angry cop specifically, holding his hand on his gun at all times.
University Heights is a largely White middle class Cleveland suburb that is roughly 18 percent Black, and current mayor Susan Infeld, who is White and the safety director over the cops and police chief, reportedly wants Blacks out of the community.
"I was just cutting the grass as Ms Coleman had paid me to do and the police came with guns and demanded to know if Ms Coleman had paid me, and how well I know her," the landscaper named Frank told Cleveland Urban News.Com. "They then demanded my id, canvassed the property, and told me to get off the property."
The landscaper said he was let go unharmed but was so startled that he called family members from out of town to tell them what had happened.
On May 15, a week before the landscaper was harassed and threatened, those same White cops also trespassed, said Coleman, when she and two handymen were repairing the $140,000 home from a kitchen fire. They tried to gun her down, said Coleman, and allegedly called her a nigger, she says. She got to safety by backing out of the driveway and the handymen were ultimately released after briefly being held hostage and threatened with rifles and guns to the heads, one of the victims said.
for $36,000.Thereafter, a Plain Dealer reporter was reportedly waiting on the sidelines to get the home for $20,000. (See Cuyahoga County Civil Case No. CV03505359, O'Donnell's case with no plaintiff that Coleman says he stalked her with coupled with getting his judicial friends, police and others to harass her too. This includes, said Coleman, at least seven break-ins at the home and the theft of her property led by University Heights Sgt Orians, who allegedly bragged to Coleman that cops had helped Chase and others break into the home).
All this, said Coleman, after the appointed county sheriff , under the directive of then county executive Ed FitzGerald, refused to evict Coleman and told O'Donnell to back off and Coleman had really prevailed in the 12-year-litigation, and acting pro se, or for self up against four big time law firms and some 15 lawyers.
Public records reveal that Coleman paid on the home nine years, had never re-financed and was not three full months behind as FHA law requires. At least 10 lawyers that have reviewed the case told Cleveland Urban News.Com that it boggles the mind.
Coleman said that the 12-year stalking litigation also involves county prosecutor Tim McGinty, a former common pleas judge and O'Donnell's friend, and that the Chase paid attorneys against her are from the law firms of Bricker and Eckler, Lerner Sampson and Rothfuss, Reimer and Lorber, and Thompson Hine.
Coleman said that with 15 lawyers and four high priced law firms JPMorgan Chase Bank spent 12 years and over a quarter of million dollars in legal fees alone, to lose to a pro se litigant after one of their attorneys, Miranda Hamrick of Lerner, Sampson and Rothfuss, confessed on public record that O'Donnell's case has no plaintiff, and that he has no jurisdiction or authority to preside over the case. She said she was just complying with a 2009 decision from the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals of Cuyahoga County, which is binding on the cities of Cleveland and University Heights and elsewhere in Cuayhoga County, titled Wells Fargo vs Jordan.
Then an attorney fresh out of law school, Hamrick said that Chase had been the plaintiff since 2005 after it bought the loan and had hidden it from everybody but O'Donnell and the attorneys, and Coleman moved repeatedly for O'Donnell to back off and dismiss the case, as did a lawyer she briefly hired in the case. The judge refused.
Coleman said that O'Donnell got more and more aggressive, having her jailed in the county in 2008 and stripped, and with no charges, and not presiding over any criminal case involving Coleman, with retired appellate judge and Sara Harper, who is now third vice president of the Cleveland NAACP, getting her out as her then attorney. Harper, said Coleman, told her father, Dr James Coleman, that they were going to kill his daughter. Then Sheriff Gerald McFaul, a since convicted criminal who was booted out of office, helped hide Coleman in the jail while she was threatened, the activist said, and there is no public record of her being there.
And on May 15, the judge, said Coleman, after having police break-in the home without an eviction to steal her property and hide it from her last November, furniture and practically everything,sent police, on May 15, to shoot and kill her under the lie that she was an intruder on her own property.
"This corrupt judge [O'Donnell] who acquitted Cleveland Police Officer Michael Brelo of two counts of manslaughter for gunning down two unarmed Blacks needs to be legally stopped, needs mental help, and should be jailed immediately," said Coleman of O'Donnell. "The Economic Crimes Unit said what he is doing is public corruption and for me to file a police report with University Heights police."
Coleman said that she has been repeatedly harassed for articles she wrote that were published in the
Call and Post Newspaper and on Cleveland Urban News.Com, and activism and writings relative to
racism, police brutality, public corruption, violence against women, politics, and documented foreclosure fraud by University Heights officials, judges, county officials and others. This includes leading rallies around Cleveland police fatal victims Tamir Rice and Tanisha Anderson, Ariel Castro victims Michelle Knight, Gina DeJesus and Amanda Berry, the 11 victims of Cleveland serial killer Anthony Sowell, and the 137 bullets Williams-Russell shooting. Also, said Coleman, she has led protests in Shaker Heights, also a Cleveland suburb, as to alleged housing discrimination against Blacks , and has been harassed for that too, among other harassment for other community ventures
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