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Tamir Rice family experts say fatal Cleveland police shooting of the Black child was excessive force, and is unjustifiable, and they want to testify before the Cuyahoga County grand jury hearing the matter for potential criminal charges against police....Corruption is rampant in the Cleveland Police Department, Rice family experts say....White Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, a former common pleas judge whom greater Cleveland community activists, clergy, and some Black leaders demand resign, will not say if he will present the Rice family attorneys' expert reports to the grand jury....McGinty, however, presented prejudicial reports from his handpicked experts in support of police to the grand jury without question....The controversy and McGinty's prejudicial selection of what data goes before a grand jury raises questions as to the constitutionality of the county grand jury process in Ohio, particularly as it relates to Black people, Rice family attorneys and their experts allege.... The neglectful anxiousness by which police approached and pursued Tamir put their own lives at risk and was arbitrary and capricious, the experts say, and was motivated also by a gross lack of training, and alleged police incompetence that allegedly contributed to Tamir's untimely death....By Editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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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 ).  Rice family attorney Subodh Chandra CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio —  Experts commissioned by the attorneys for the family of 12-year-old Tamir Rice relative to proceedings before a Cuyahoga County grand jury that will decide if two White overzealous Cleveland cops involved in the Black child's shooting death last November will be indicted on criminal charges say the controversial shooting was excessive force, and is unjustifiable. And they want to testify before the grand jury

Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel demoted to third string a week after being named starting quarterback by coach Mike Pettine, By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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Cleveland  Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel, who won the starting quarterback slot last week only to be demoted to third string by coach Mike Pettine after a video surfaced on Monday of him parting it up in Austin, Texas during the five days off for the bye weekend leading up to the Nov 30 game at FirstEnergy Stadium against the Baltimore Ravens. From the Metro Desk of 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     ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ). Cleveland Browns head coach Mike Pettine CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio -   Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel has been demoted by head coach Mike Pettine from starting quarterback to third string a week after he was named to the starting position with hoopla and praise from his vacillating coach.  Pettine benched Manziel,

Free Thanksgiving day 2015 meals in Cleveland and East Cleveland, By www.clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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From the Metro Desk of 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     ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ). Free holiday meal listings for Thanksgiving day  2015 of  Thursday, November 26  in Cleveland and neighboring East Cleveland are listed below: CHATEAU NIGHT CLUB 200 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland 11 a.m.-2 p.m. For more information contact 216-820-7314 DUNHAM AVENUE CHRISTIAN CHURCH 1629 E 66th St., Cleveland Noon -1:30 p.m. click here for details GREATER MT. CALVARY CHURCH 10109 Nelson Avenue, Cleveland 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. 216-429-2477 for information HARD ROCK CAFE 230 W Huron Rd., Cleveland, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Click here for the Hard Rock website HOUSE OF BLUES 308 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Click here for the HOB website MT. NEBO

Tamir Rice shut down Ohio protest is November 23 at 1 pm beginning at Cleveland City Hall: Protesters to picket Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim Mc Ginty at Justice Center today and community activists join area clergy in calling for McGinty, who is White and pro-police, to resign from office immediately....By Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman

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Pictured is Samaria Rice, the mother of 12-year-old Cleveland police fatal shooting victim Tamir Rice during a press conference last month as she and her attorneys called for Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty  to step aside after he  hired handpicked experts allegedly to exonerate police from a grand jury indictment on criminal charges.  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 ).  Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio-Community- Cleveland area community activists and the family of Ta

Johnny Manziel named starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns, and his passing game is one of the few things going right for the team....The Cleveland Browns will host the Baltimore Ravens on November 30 at FirstEnergy Stadium....By Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter Karl Kimbrough www.clevelandurbannews.com

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Cleveland Browns starting quarterback Johnny Manziel (with Browns quarterback Josh McCown in the background).  The twenty-two-year-old  Manziel , a 2014 draft pick and Heisman Trophy winner, was tagged by Browns head coach Mike Pettine on Tuesday to start as quarterback for the  remaining six games of the 2015 regular season for the Browns. Cleveland Browns General Manager Ray Farmer (left),  and head coach Mile Pettine Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter Karl Kimbrough By Karl Kimbrough, Cleveland Urban News.Com sportswriter (kimbrough@clevelandurbannews.com).   Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Leaders In Black Digital News . Tel: 216-659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND,Ohio- Prior to the beginning of this 2015 season, Cleveland Browns general manager Ray Farmer and head coach

Cleveland activists, victims family members to remember pregnant Sherita Johnson and four others murdered, including her unborn child, on the First Anniversary of the Cleveland East 92nd Street Serial Murders...The vigil is November 21 at 5 pm at 1443 E. 92nd St and Wade Park and Johnson's mother calls for the "Black on Black crime to stop".... Black clergy, Black elected officials, community activists, and murder victims family members to speak.... Sponsoring community activist groups include the Imperial Women Coalition, the Million Women March Cleveland, Black on Black Crime Inc, the Black Man's Army, Peace in the Hood, and the Carl Stokes Brigade....(Contact persons are Lavitta Murray of the Million Women March Cleveland and the Imperial Women Coalition at (216) 410-9830, Kathy Wray Coleman of the Imperial Women Coalition and Cleveland Urban News.Com at (216) 659-0473, and Art McKoy of Black on Black Crime Inc and the Black Man's Army at (216) 253-4070)....Pastor Adrian Carter, whose 25-year-old daughter Arrion Smiley was shot and killed last September in Cleveland Heights, a Cleveland suburb, is also a key speaker.... By Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman

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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 URBAN NEWS.COM- CLEVELAND, Ohio- Community activists and the family of Sherita Johnson, the pregnant 41-year-old woman who was shot and killed in the driveway of a house near East 92nd Street and Wade Park Avenue in Cleveland last year, will hold a remembrance vigil on Saturday, Nov 21., the first anniversary of her murder, and of the four other victims shot and killed inside the home on the city's east side. Johnson was seven months pregnant at the time of her death. Two of