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New Cleveland Police Commission sworn in by Mayor Jackson does not reflect the socioeconomic composition of the largely Black impoverished city, and has suburbanites but no Civil Rights leaders, women's advocates, prominent Black clergy, poor people, or grassroots activists....The Cleveland NAACP, SCLC and ACLU are shunned.... Former lt governor Lee Fisher of affluent Shaker Heights and representatives for Cleveland police unions make the cut....The Tamir Rice family calls the selection process a disgrace and says that commission members should live in the city.....By Editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Cleveland Urban News. Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper www.clevelandurbannews.com

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 District Attorney Steve Dettelbach  Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under six different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).   READ WHO THE MEMBERS OF THE NEWLY SWORN IN 13-MEMBER CLEVELAND POLICE COMMISSION ARE AT THE END OF THE BELOW CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM ARTICLE. NEARLY A THIRD ARE SUBURBANITES, AND NOT ONE GRASSROOTS ACTIVIST OR CIVIL RIGHTS COMMUNITY LEADER MADE THE CUT. AND WOMEN'S GROUPS, THE CLEVELAND NAACP, THE GREATER CLEVELAND SCLC AND THE OHIO ACLU WHERE COMPLETELY IGNORED. THE ONLY TEACHER CHOSEN

The Rev Jimmy Gates resigns from panel that will choose Cleveland Police Commission for police reforms relative to consent decree after the Plain Dealer Newspaper exposes his criminal past....The Imperial Women Coalition support the resignation and say Gates harassed them and dared them to rally last year as to the annual anniversary of the Imperial Avenue Murders.....Mayor Jackson and District Attorney Steve Dettelbach say Gates has changed his wicked ways....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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The Rev Jimmy Gates From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  District Attorney Steve Dettelbach Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Rev Jimmy Gates, a Black Cleveland preacher who went to prison in 2003 for taking bribes  as a top official under former Cleveland mayor Jane Campbell   that Mayor Frank Jackson and U.S. District Attorney Steve Dettelbach  recently  announced as one of 11 panelists chosen to select people for the city's court-ordered 10-member community Cleveland Police Commission , has resigned. Gates also pleaded guilty in 2012 for a mortgagee crime. In the matter of United States v. City of Cleveland