Minister Louis Farrakhan speaks in Cleveland, Ohio against police killings of unarmed Black people, he condemns the Tamir Rice police shooting, and Judge John O'Donnell's acquittal of police officer Michael Brelo....Farrakhan calls Mayor Jackson a beautiful mayor whose hands are tied by a racist legal system that condones police killings of Black people....He says that the whole system needs to be taken down, and calls for a national boycott of Black Sunday and the Christmas season....By Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor -in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman www.clevelandurbannews.com



The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan,
 national leader of the Nation of Islam, who

spoke to an overflow audience in 
Cleveland, Ohio on September  3 and condemned 
the arbitrary killings by Cleveland police
of unarmed Black people 
By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under six different editors, at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio
(www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com

Cleveland police fatal shooting victim Malissa Williams

Cleveland police fatal shooting victim Timothy Russell

Cleveland police fatal 12-year-old shooting victim Tamir Rice


CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan (pictured) spoke to an overflow audience in Cleveland, Ohio Thursday evening, September 3, at Second Ebenezer Baptist Church on the city's largely Black east side and condemned the arbitrary killings of Black people by Cleveland police, which was the focus of his speech to members of the Nation of Islam, community activists, Black clergy, and a host others.
He did not disappoint, and he pinpointed Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, the three-term Black mayor of the largely Black major American city, as "a beautiful mayor' whose hands are tied by a racist legal system that systematically disenfranchises the Black community and  caters to White cops that gun down unarmed Blacks.

"He did what he came to do and what was expected of him," said Frances Caldwell, a local community activist and the executive director of the Cleveland  African-American Museum. "His speech was profound, and Black people need to unify both politically and economically."

Jackson, who remains relatively popular and has not said publicly whether he will seek a historic fourth term next year, did not attend and has been under fire from community activists and attorneys for the Cleveland NAACP that want the mayor to take a more aggressive stance against his embattled largely White police force.

The longtime Nation of Islam leader said that the police killing in 2014 of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, which occurred last November at a public park on Cleveland's largely White west side, is inexcusable,  and he demanded accountability for the Black boy's death, and said that others killed by police both locally and nationally should not die in vain.

County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, who is White and up for reelection  next year, is still reviewing evidence in  the Rice shooting and has said that he will decide if it is presented or not to the county grand jury for possible criminal charges.

"Nobody has the right to take your life and then deny you due process for the redress of your grievance,"  said Farrakhan.

"I watched that  judge [Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell] with Malissa Williams and Mr. Russell, Farrakhan said, making distinct reference to the White judge's acquittal in May of Cleveland Police Officer Michael Brelo on two counts of voluntary manslaughter in the the 2012 shooting deaths of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams, 30, and Timothy Russell, 43.

Following a high speed car chase that began in downtown Cleveland and ended in a middle school parking lot in neighboring East Cleveland, a majority Black Cleveland suburb, Brelo fired 49 shots into the windshield of the car Russell was driving where Williams was a passenger.

The other 12-non Black Cleveland police officers that fired the remainder of the 137 shots escaped prosecution and,  like Brelo, are now facing internal disciplinary charges.

Brelo's  lawyers argued at trial  that he thought his life was in danger, the same argument the other 12 cops that did the shooting gave in testimony before the county grand jury that refused to indict them on criminal charges.

The car backfired, say police, and the chase was initiated by a cop that thought  it was gun fire coming from Russell and Williams.

No gun was found at the deadly scene.

"Shot  at a vehicle 137 times," said Farrakhan. "That is a hell of a lot of shooting."

Farrakhan said that police are supposed to be marksmen and allegedly knew what they were doing when they targeted Williams and Russell for the kill, and that  "when you go to hunt a deer, when you get him in your site you know exactly where to put the bullet."

Organizers of Thursday's gathering in Cleveland turned the mainstream media away at the door, including a reporter and her crew from  the television station Nineteen Action News, and  Fox 8 News, which took camp outside to interview people coming and leaving.

The controversial speech, where the articulate Farrakhan, a masterful speaker with a sharp tongue, called for a national boycott of Black Sunday and the entire Christmas season, and to take the system down, was timely. It  precedes a 'Justice of Else' rally he will lead in Washington, D.C. on   October 10, the 20th anniversary celebration march of the Million Man March.

Cleveland city officials agreed this summer to a settlement on a court-monitored consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice, which follows its report of systemic problems in the largely White Cleveland Police Department, including illegal excessive force fatal shootings, tasing of innocent women and children, and gross mistreatment of the mentally ill. (www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com)

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