Trial rescheduled: The police harassment of activists trial of Cleveland activist and journalist Kathy Wray Coleman begins August 13, 2018 at 1:30 pm with a noon picket by community activists, and before Judge Nancy Fuerst in courtroom 15B at the Justice Center...Coleman is accused of assaulting but not touching four White cops who came to her home in May of 2015 slinging guns and rifles and allegedly calling her nigger, and without a 9-1-1 call or warrant.....There is no body cam, and no dash cam or video of the alleged incident because police and prosecutors tampered with the alleged video, and the speedy trial time has long passed.....Activist Alfred Porter Jr., who will lead the noon picket along with Art McKoy, said activists will fight for justice for Kathy Wray Coleman, who led the Cleveland womens' march earlier this year, with a vengeance....Coleman says the case is frivolous..."This is nothing but a high tech lynching premised on free speech violations and motivated by racial animus, sex discrimination, public corruption, foreclosure theft by JPMorgan Chase Bank attorneys and corrupt judges like Judge John O'Donnell, and judicial, prosecutorial and police misconduct" said Coleman. " I thank the community and community activists for their support and urge interested people to attend the trial." By www.clevelandurbannews.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Tel (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com
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| Activist Kathy Wray Coleman, far right, leads the women's march of some 7, 000 people in downtown Cleveland, Ohio on January 20, 2018. Coleman was also the opening speaker at the march |
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| Cleveland activist and journalist Kathy Wray Coleman |
CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- The harassment by police trial of Cleveland community activist and journalist Kathy Wray Coleman has been rescheduled to Monday, August 13, 2018 at 1:30 pm before Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Nancy Fuerst in courtroom 15B at the Justice Center in downtown Cleveland with community activists Art McKoy and Alfred Porter Jr. of Black on Black Crime Inc. leading a noon picket in support of Coleman on the steps of the Justice Center. For more information call Porter at 216-804-7462 or the Imperial Women Coalition at 216-659-0473.CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE FACEBOOK PAGE OF THE EVENT
Judge Fuerst is proceeding to trial in contempt of an Aug. 6, 2018 order issued by the 8th District Court of Appeals that put the trial on hold until trial court issues raised by Coleman on appeal are addressed by the Ohio Supreme Court, if the seven-member all White and all Republican high court of Ohio agrees to hear the issues at hand.
"Community activists will attend the trial and a noon picket will go forward on August 13 on the steps of the Justice Center," said Porter. "This is a case of police, judicial and prosecutorial harassment of an activist and journalist who has been in the trenches on police killings of Black people and the rape and murders of Cleveland women who did not have a voice, and we will fight for justice for Kathy Wray Coleman with a vengeance."
Coleman, who has organized pickets around Cleveland police killings of unarmed Black people and violence against women and has exposed police, prosecutorial and judicial malfeasance as well as foreclosure theft by county officials, judges like Judge John O'Donnell, JPMorgan Chase Bank attorneys, and a host of others, called the case frivolous, racist, and sexist, and a blatant violation of free speech.
"This is nothing but a high tech lynching premised on free speech violations and motivated by racial animus, sex discrimination, public corruption, and judicial, prosecutorial and police misconduct," said Coleman. " I thank the community and community activists for their support and urge interested people to attend the trial."
A former Cleveland schools biology teacher for 14 years and former 17-year Call and Post Newspaper reporter who led the Cleveland women's march earlier this year and who now edits Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog, and who leads the activist group Imperial Women Coalition, Coleman is charged with assaulting but not touching four White University Heights cops who came to her home in May of 2015 slinging guns and rifles and allegedly calling her nigger, and without a warrant or 9-1-1 call.
Coleman is best known for her journalism and for organizing and leading rallies as to the 137 shots police killings of Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell and other Cleveland police killings of unarmed Blacks, the murders of 11 Black women on Imperial Avenue by serial killer Anthony Sowell, the Seymour Avenue Ariel Castro victims, serial killer Michael Madison victims in East Cleveland, and the Cleveland East 93rd Street serial murders.
Police have no dash cam, body cam or video of the alleged incident of May 15, 2015 and a witness at the scene has filed an affidavit with Fuerst saying the police are lying, one cop in particular, Dale Orians, lying to the grand jury and testifying for three other fellow University Heights cops, case records reveal.
A video introduced during discovery has allegedly been tampered with by police and prosecutors and does not show what happened the day of the incident in question.
University Heights is a Cleveland suburb known for police harassment of Black people, foreclosure theft, and public corruption, its former Democratic mayor, Susan Infeld, ousted by voters in 2017.
According to the grand jury testimony of cop Orians, he got a cell phone call and then lobbied some seven White cops to strap up with guns and rifles. They then went to Coleman's home to get her, Coleman getting away to safety and illegally indicted a year later per the insistence of since ousted county prosecutor Tim McGinty, who, according to Coleman's former attorney, Scott Hurley, colluded with Clerk of Courts NailahByrd and fixed the indictment from two cops to four cops allegedly assaulted but not touched, all without a court order or a new grand jury indictment.
McGinty lost reelection in 2016 to current county prosecutor Michael O'Malley, a former Parma safety director whom activists say is pro- cop in general, and conveniently pro- Black when he needs the Black vote
Public records reveal that Coleman's constitutional right to a speedy trial, which she has not waived, is being violated by Judge Fuerst, among a host of other issues relative to the tortured case that has been pending for well over three years.
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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