Activists to rally today relative to the 137 shots Cleveland police shooting deaths of Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell at 5:30 pm in front of East Cleveland City Hall, Russell and Williams both Black and unarmed and both gunned down by 13 non-Black Cleveland police officers slinging 137 bullets following a high speed car chase from Cleveland to East Cleveland, the city of East Cleveland this week offering five White Cleveland police supervisors who failed to control the chase and who face a single misdemeanor charge of dereliction of duty dismissal in exchange for $5,000 each in fines and court costs, their lawyer, Henry Hilow, saying noway and that the city must either dismiss the case or take it to trial...."This offer by the prosecutor of the city of East Cleveland of money in exchange for dismissing this case is an affront to the thousands who have marched, protested, rallied and sat in on many different meetings demanding justice, and we want a trial for the cops at issue before a duly-impaneled jury of their peers," said activist Al Porter of Black on Black Crime Inc.....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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| The 1979 Malibu Classic driven by Timothy Russell with Malissa Williams as a passenger, both Black and unarmed, and both gunned down by 13 non-Black Cleveland cops slinging 137 bullets following a high speed car chase from downtown Cleveland to neighboring East Cleveland |
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CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio-Greater Cleveland community activists will hold a press conference rally today, March 15, 2018, in front of East Cleveland City Hall in response to the city offering five White Cleveland police supervisors prosecuted on misdemeanor charges that they failed to control a 22-mile chase that led to the 137 shots shooting deaths of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell dismissal of charges in exchange for $5,000 each in fines and court costs. (Contact phone numbers for the press conference rally are 216-804-7462 and 216-659-0473).
"We will meet today in front of East Cleveland City Hall on this matter," said activist Art McKoy.
"This offer by the prosecutor of the city of East Cleveland of money in exchange for dismissing this case is an affront to the thousands who have marched, protested, rallied and sat in on many different meetings demanding justice, and we want a trial for the cops at issue before a duly-impaneled jury of their peers," said activist Al Porter of Black on Black Crime Inc.
"This offer by the prosecutor of the city of East Cleveland of money in exchange for dismissing this case is an affront to the thousands who have marched, protested, rallied and sat in on many different meetings demanding justice, and we want a trial for the cops at issue before a duly-impaneled jury of their peers," said activist Al Porter of Black on Black Crime Inc.
The supervisors, Randolph Dailey, Patricia Coleman, Michael Donegan, Jason Edens and Paul Wilson, who were indicted in 2014 by a Cuyahoga County grand jury for failure to control, face a single misdemeanor charge of dereliction of duty, the case ultimately transferred form Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas to East Cleveland Municipal Court
The charge is a second degree misdemeanor and the supervisors face a possible 90 days in jail and up to a $750 fine.
Henry Hilow, the attorney for the Cleveland supervisors says that his clients reject the city's offer and the city should either dismiss the case or proceed to trial.
Williams, 30, and Russell, 43, both homeless and struggling with drug addiction, were gunned down on November 29, 2012 by 13 non-Black Cleveland cops slinging 137 bullets following a high speed car chase from downtown Cleveland to Heritage Middle School in neighboring East Cleveland, a largely Black impoverished suburb of Cleveland.
Police claim Russell's car backfired and it was mistaken as a shot at police, a scheme, say community activists, to avoid prosecution and to escape accountability for one of Cleveland's most notorious excessive force atrocities.
Police claim Russell's car backfired and it was mistaken as a shot at police, a scheme, say community activists, to avoid prosecution and to escape accountability for one of Cleveland's most notorious excessive force atrocities.
Last year an arbitrator handed five of the six officers directly involved in the shooting who were fired relative to the incident their jobs back.
A sixth Cleveland police officer, Michael Brelo, whom Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell acquitted of affiliated voluntary manslaughter charges in May 2015 following a bench trial, should not be reinstated, the arbitrator ruled.
Brelo was exceptionally callus and shot 49 of the 137 bullets into the windshield of the car Russell had been driving while stationed on the hood of the car, including a 15-round volley.
Russell's 1979 Malibu Classic was cornered and stationary at Heritage school when 137 shots were fired by the Cleveland cops, the duo dying at the scene of an incident that has heightened racial unrest in Cleveland and East Cleveland regarding excessive force by police and what activists say is a lack of adequate redress for the victims families and the Black community.
The city of Cleveland, which settled a wrongful death lawsuits with families of the victims for $3 million, is currently under a court-monitored consent decree for police reforms with the U.S. Department of Justice.
.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. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.
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