Family of Luke Stewart, a Black man killed by a White Euclid, Ohio cop, sues city, cop, the city's mayor, and others....Community activists, led by Black Lives Matter, shut down a Euclid City Council meeting over the tragic killing....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com
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Euclid police fatal shooting victim Luke Stewart, 23 and unarmed at the time of his untimely death in March by a White cop who escaped an indictment on criminal charges by a largely White Cuyahoga County grand jury. Stewart's mother, Mary Stewart, and his sister, Tierra Stewart, spoke on the loss of their loved one to editor Kathy Wray Coleman of ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com
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CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS-COM, CLEVELAND Ohio- The family of 23-year-old Luke Stewart, a Black man killed by a Euclid, Ohio cop in March, has filed an excessive force and wrongful death lawsuit against the city, the cop that killed him and a host of other defendants, including the city's mayor, Kirsten Holzheimer Gail
The suit says in relevant part that Rhodes was unnecessarily beaten by officer Matthew Rhodes, tased and fatally shot, simply because he tried to drive away from cops that approached him while he was asleep in a parking lot.
Rhodes was not indicted by a largely White grand jury for fatally shooting Stewart, who was unarmed and Black, which is routine in Cuyahoga County, from the fatal police shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice by Cleveland police in 2014 to a host of other Cleveland police killings in the past five years, including Tanisha Anderson, Malissa Williams, Timothy Russell, and aspiring rapper Kenneth Smith.
Led by Black Lives Matter Cleveland, activists temporarily shut down a Euclid City Council meeting this summer after city council and the mayor ignored their concerns relative to what they say is clearly excessive force by police.
"That was my son and we want justice," said Stewart's mother, Mary Stewart, to ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com editor-in-chief Kathy Wray Coleman at the city council sit-in rally last Monday at Euclid City Hall.
His sister, Tierra Stewart, told ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com that "we need officer Mathew Rhodes off the streets."
Euclid is a middle class Cleveland suburb of some 50,000 residents that is roughly 60 percent Black.
An attorney for the Stewart family said that the young man's family members had hoped grand jury proceedings would be fair, but to no avail.
The office of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, who, among others, is seeking the Republican nomination for governor next year, handled the investigation and presented the case to the grand jury after Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O'Malley passed on investigating the matter, partly because of political implications, sources said.
O'Malley ousted then county prosecutor Tim McGinty in an election last year and campaigned, in part, on his posture that the office of the Ohio attorney general investigate such controversial shootings by police, although it is also within his job purview to take such cases before grand juries.
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