Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's grandson indicted on felonious assault on Parma police charge, another felony after fleeing from Parma police....Blacks are often warned not to drive through the city of racist Parma....Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders

 

Frank Q. Jackson, the grandson of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, the city's third Black mayor

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief
CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio-Frank Q. Jackson, the 24-year-old grandson of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, was indicted on Thursday by a Cuyahoga County grand jury on charges of felonious assault on police and failure to comply with a police order stemming from traffic stop in Parma the night of Jan 23 that turned contentious when he decided to flee police and took them on a high speed car chase that crossed city lines into Cleveland and reached speeds of up to 100 miles per hour.

The felonious assault charge is a first degree felony, and failure to comply with a police officer's order is a fourth degree felony.

He faces up to 10 years in prison.

He remains out of jail on bond.

At the time of the incident a Cleveland warrant was pending against him on a first degree misdemeanor charge of domestic violence regarding a Dec. 18 encounter in which he is alleged to have struck his girlfriend, who is also the mother of his child, in the head and face after a verbal altercation over baby diapers.

According to Parma police, the younger Jackson, who is actually the Black mayor's step grandson, was pulled over by Parma police shortly before midnight, allegedly for tinted windows.

After purportedly agreeing to a police search of his car he took off in his automobile before it could be searched by police.

The two White police officers present at the traffic stop grabbed him after he would not exit his car as allegedly ordered and, according to police body cams and a dash cam, one of the cops hung on to him temporarily as his car pulled away.

The cop at issue was not hurt, a Parma police spokesperson later said.

Though Parma police were in hot pursuit after he fled he was able to escape them after he reached Cleveland's west side near Steel-Yard Commons.

He turned himself in at the Parma Police Station the next morning and was cited for having tinted windows and charged in Parma with failure to comply with a police officer's order, a fourth degree felony.

He was later transferred from the Parma jail to the Cuyahoga County Jail

His bond in the Parma case was set at $50,000 but a common pleas judge reduced it to $10,000 after the case was bound over to the common pleas court.

While failure to comply with a police officer's order is typically prosecuted as a misdemeanor offense in most cases in Ohio, certain aggravating factors can make the alleged crime a felony, such as fleeing and eluding after committing a felony, or after causing serious harm.

Once sued by the NAACP for employment discrimination against Blacks, Parma is a largely White Cleveland suburb, and the seventh largest city in Ohio behind Dayton.

Blacks are often warned not to drive through the city for fear of racial profiling and police harassment.

It is where Democratic County Prosecutor Mike O'Malley resides, O'Malley also the city's former safety director who is regularly pro-cop in cases where Blacks are accused of felony crimes against White police officers, data show

Cleveland's four-term mayor who is up for reelection this year, Mayor Jackson has not commented publicly on the most recent incidents involving his troubled grandson.

The new charges create more problems for the mayor's grandson.

Frank Q. Jackson is already on probation relative to a plea deal before Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell last year that came following a 2019 indictment on felonious assault, abduction charges and two counts of failure to comply with police in which he was accused of punching and choking a young 18-year-old Black  woman, and striking  her with a metal truck hitch.

In that case he agreed to a plea deal and pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault in exchange for dismissal of the felonious assault and other charges.

In turn, O'Donnell handed him a suspended 90 day sentence and put him on probation for 18 months.

The mayor, who has said he will announce in coming weeks whether he will seek reelection to an unprecedented fifth term, said publicly last year regarding the younger Jackson's 2019 assault incident that he supports his grandson and other family members just like other people do.

What if any punishment will come to the younger Jackson by Judge O'Donnell if he is convicted or takes a plea deal in his two most recent cases remains to be seen since he is currently on probation.

A Democrat like Mayor Jackson, O'Donnell has lost three bids since 2014 for a seat on the Ohio Supreme Court, including a failed attempt last year to unseat Republican Supreme Court Justice Sharon Kennedy.

The controversial judge remains under fire by activists, some Black leaders and the Black community after he acquitted since fired Cleveland cop Michael Brelo in 2015 of two counts of voluntary manslaughter for gunning down unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell with 49 bullets in 2012 following a high speed car chase from downtown Cleveland to neighboring East Cleveland.

Cuyahoga County Court of Common
Pleas Judge John P. O'Donnell

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