Embattled Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, whom Cuyahoga County voters ousted from office in Tuesday's, Democratic primary election, an unprecedented defeat of an incumbent county prosecutor
CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- Led by 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, area Black clergy and community activists, the Black community defeated Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty in Tuesday's primary election, handing the powerful seat to Michael O'Malley, a former assistant county prosecutor and Parma safety director who, unlike McGinty, campaigned in the Black community of Cleveland. (Editor's note: No Republican and no Independent entered the race , so O'Malley is, in essence, the winner). CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM OF MIKE O'MALLEY AGREEING TO TAKE HARD QUESTIONS FROM A PANEL OF BLACK ACTIVISTS AND THE BLACK COMMUNITY, A COMMUNITY FORUM THAT SUBSEQUENTLY TOOK PLACE AND WAS ORGANIZED BY THE IMPERIAL WOMEN COALITION, BLACK ON BLACK CRIME INC., AND THE BLACK WOMEN'S PAC
And at the core of McGinty's humiliating loss is his mishandling of grand jury proceedings relative to the Cleveland police killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, and the acquittal last year by Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell of Michael Brelo, a since fired Cleveland cop who gunned down unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell in 2012 while slinging 49 bullets. (Editor's note: Twelve other non- Black Cleveland cops, who together fired the remaining 137 shots. escaped grand jury indictments per McGinty's recommendation).
Other Cleveland police killings were also at issue, as were a prosecutor's office and legal system rampant with contention, heightened malicious prosecutions, sentencing disparities against the Black community, and a broken grand jury process that caters to police and affluent White folks.
O'Malley, whose message of criminal justice reforms and a more accountable and more amenable prosecutor's office resounded with voters, did not get a mandate and won with support from the Black community in a county, Ohio's largest of 88 counties statewide, that includes the largely Black city of Cleveland, and is a Democratic stronghold.
According to unofficial results of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, O'Malley won with 86, 505 votes to McGinty's 68, 866 votes, a comparison of 56 percent to 44 percent , or simply a win by 12 percentage points.
County board of elections data reveals that Black voters brought home the victory for O'Malley. He got 70 percent of vote in precincts with majority Black voters.
The 12 points differentiation matters since the county is roughly a third Black, and notwithstanding statistics, it was the Black community that pushed a message of anybody but McGinty for county prosecutor.
"Tim McGinty did not court the Black community and he lost," said Black Women's PAC President UNA H.R. Keenon, the president of the East Cleveland Board of Education and a retired East Cleveland judge.
"He got what he deserved, "said community activist Ada Averyhart of McGinty. "And we will continue to talk about him after what he did to Tamir Rice and other Black people."
Neither candidate was endorsed by either the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party or the Ohio Democratic Party.
A former common pleas judge of 19 years whose first four-year-term as a county prosecutor has been turbulent at best, McGinty could not match the wit of O' Malley, nor that of his his campaign manager, Ryan Miday, who understood the necessity of support of black voters and who served as media spokesperson under former county prosecutor Bill Mason, McGinty's predecessor,.
Tamir Rice was gunned down on November 22, 2014 in less than two seconds when White Cleveland police officers Timothy Loehmann, who pulled the trigger, and Frank Garmback, pulled up at a public park and recreation center on the city's largely White west side where the Black kid was toting a toy gun, and following a foiled 9-11 call.
Both police officers escaped indictments on criminal charges after McGinty, who is also White, recommended a no bill to the grand jury.
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By Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman, a-23-year journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years, and who interviewed now President Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, 
