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Settlement amount announced in 137 shots Cleveland police fatal shooting of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell, Russell estate attorney Terry Gilbert says excessive force by Cleveland police is still a problem and that 'the fight is just beginning,' Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty protected 12 of the 13 non-Black cops that killed Williams and Russell from charges by county grand jury, Gilbert thanks community activists for support in the case

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An array of Cleveland police cars chase two unarmed Blacks from downtown Cleveland to neighboring East Cleveland the night of November  29 , 2012. The 23 minute car chase ended in the parking lot of Heritage Middle School in East Cleveland and culminated in 13 non- Black Cleveland police officers firing a total of 137 bullets at unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams 30, and Timothy Ray Russell, 43, the driver of the 1979 Chevy Malibu. Both Russell and Williams died at the scene. Cleveland police shooting victim Malissa Williams Cleveland police shooting victim Timothy Russell Cleveland Civil Rights and Constitutional Attorney Terry Gilbert, who represents the estate of  Timothy Russell relative to the affiliated wrongful death and excessive force lawsuit that the city of Cleveland recently settled  By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-n-chief,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper

Mayor Frank Jackson fires, demotes Cleveland police supervisors over deadly 137 bullets police shooting of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Tim Russell,.... activists at war with Councilmen Johnson and Conwell over deadly shooting, traffic cameras that target Black community, ....FEDS, U.S. District Attorney Steve Dettlelbach meet with Black community at Olivet church on shooting, ....activists say Councilman Johnson has fogotten that they supported him when he got in trouble as a state senator

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Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )  Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473 Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson CLEVELAND, Ohio- Racial unrest continues to mount in Cleveland's Black community with Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson firing a police sergeant, demoting two other supervisors, and suspending a handful of other mid-level police managers on Monday following the gangsta-style deadly 137 bullets shooting late last year of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell by a group of  13 Cleveland police officers, 12 White and one Hispanic.  And some Cleveland City Council members, mainly Ward 9 Councilman Kevin Conwell and Ward 8 Councilman Jeff Johnson, both outspoken and Black, are in an all out war w