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Brelo Judge John O'Donnell dismisses misdemeanor charges in common pleas court against 5 White Cleveland supervisors involved in the 137 shots deadly shooting so that the case can proceed in East Cleveland....Judge O'Donnell is also under investigation for the theft of homes of Cuyahoga County residents for mortgage companies and banks such as JPMorgan Chase Bank....Cities targeted across Cuyahoga County include University Hts, where its corrupt, White Democratic mayor, Susan Infeld, is a ring leader of the documented mortage theft and public corruption, data show....By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor of Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty University Heights Mayor Susan Infeld, who is also the safety director of the largely White Cleveland suburb. Infeld and Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge O'Donnell are  key ring leaders of a mortgage theft operation of homes in the county along with JPMorgan Chase Bank,  and the law firm of Lerner, Sampson and Rothfuss,   among others .  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 five different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cuyahoga County

Cleveland NAACP demands changes in consent decree between city of Cleveland and DOJ on police reforms, including barring police from policing themselves, bias free policing, and an inspector general that does not report to Police Chief Calvin Williams....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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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 five different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  Attorney James Hardiman CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Cleveland Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Collaborative for a Safe, Fair and Just Cleveland, and the Cleveland Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild held a press conference earlier today to announce the filing today of an amicus brief in federal district court in response to the consent decree on police reforms negotiated with the city of Cleveland and the federal government.  (Editor's note

Girlfriend accused of killing the brother of Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams has died...By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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Dana Johnson William Williams By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog. Tel: (216) 659-0473.  Coleman is a community activist and 21-year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )  Cleveland Police Chief  Calvin Williams CLEVELAND, Ohio- Dana Johnson, 36, the girlfriend of the younger brother of Cleveland  Police Chief Calvin Williams who was  accused of shooting and killing her estranged boyfriend and baby daddy on Tuesday  with a bullet to the head,  has died,  the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed earlier today. William Williams, 34, was shot and killed early Tuesday morning at the home the couple shared  on the city's largely Black east side , and Johnso

Brother of Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams shot dead with gunshot wound to the head, allegedly by live-in girlfriend, who later allegedly turned the gun on herself...By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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William Williams By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog. Tel: (216) 659-0473.  Coleman is a community activist and 21-year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )  Cleveland Police Chief  Calvin Williams CLEVELAND, Ohio-The younger brother of Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams died of a gunshot wound to the head early Tuesday morning, the apparent shooting by an estranged live-in girlfriend who reportedly is the mother of his two of his three children, and is in critical condition at a Pennsylvania- area hospital  after allegedly shooting herself in the head later that day. The tragic incident reportedly followed a routine domestic dispute. William D. Williams, 34, was found dead at h

Black Shield Police Association president to speak to Carnegie Roundtable on police officer entrance exam and the need for more Black Cleveland cops at 2 pm on February 11 at open meeting at Angie's Soul Food Restaurant in downtown Cleveland, Black community demands that consent decree relative to DOJ finding of systemic problems in Cleveland Police Department include requirement to recruit more Black cops

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Black Shield Police Association President Lynn Hampton, a 21-year veteran of the Cleveland police force By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog, Tel: (216) 659-0473  K athy Wray Coleman is  a community activist, educator, and 21- year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio -Black Shield Police Association President Lynn Hampton will speak before the Carnegie Roundtable of greater Cleveland on the upcoming Cleveland police patrolman's entrance  exam and strategies to increase the number of Blacks  in the ranks of the largely White Cleveland police force at 2 pm on Wednesday, February 11 at Angie's Soul Food Restaurant at 3400 Saint Clair Avenue in downtown Cleveland.  The event is

Cleveland police begin wearing body cameras following damning DOJ report and high profile police shootings of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Tim Russell with 137 bullets, and Tamir Rice, and the police killing of Tanisha Anderson

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A police body camera that resembles a regular camera and is worn on an officer's button or zipper shirt, utility belt or uniform shirt pockets.  Cleveland City Council has purchased 1,200  of this type of body camera for Cleveland police to sport. A type  of police body camera known as a flex camera that resembles a flashlight and is  worn by police as eye-wear , and can be attached to officers' hats, collars, and bodies, and can be mounted to the dash of a police cruiser. Cleveland City Council has purchased 300 of this type of body camera  for Cleveland police to sport. By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog.  Tel: (216) 659-0473.  Coleman is a community  activist, educator and 21-year investigative journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( w

Coroner rules death of unarmed Black woman Tanisha Anderson by Cleveland police while in custody a homicide, community activists fought for homicide ruling, family demands indictment on criminal charges against police officer that killed Tanisha, Tanisha's sister comments, family to file wrongful death, Civil Rights lawsuit

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Tanisha Anderson From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com,  O hio's most Read online Black newspaper and newspaper blog. Tel: (216) 659-0473, Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio -Tanisha Anderson, the unarmed 37-year-old schizophrenic Black woman killed in November by Cleveland police at her home on Cleveland's east side while in handcuffs, was the victim of a police homicide, the Cuyahoga County medical examiner announced Friday, a finding that follows community protests for a homicide ruling and demands for justice for the unarmed Black woman and her family. Anderson was    physically restrained in a prone position  when she was died on Nov 13, the coroner said. A homicide ruling in general does not mean for sure that police and the city of Cleveland are liable, but in Anderson's case, it was pertinent because