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Community activists, led by Alfred Porter and Kathy Wray Coleman, remember Cleveland police shooting victims Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell on the four-year anniversary of the Cleveland police 137 bullets fatal shooting.... Activists highlighted, via Cleveland Fox 8 News and Cleveland Channel 3 News coverage, that Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty this year lost reelection over his handling of the issue and Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell lost his bid this year to the Ohio Supreme Court for acquitting Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo of manslaughter charges in a bench trial in the case.... Brelo gunned down Williams and Russell slinging 49 of the 137 bullets.....The 12 other Cleveland cops that did the shooting escaped prosecution with McGinty's help....By www.clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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Pictured are since fired Cleveland Police officer Michael Brelo and his fatal shooting victims Malissa Williams, 30, and Timothy Russell, 43. Brelo gunned them down while shooting 49 bullets, and after jumping aboard the hood of the car Russell was driving. Brelo was cleared in May of 2015 of manslaughter charges in a bench trial before Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell Cuyahoga Count Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell, who acquitted since fired Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo of gunning down unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell with 49 bullets. Following fallout from the Black community relative to his controversial acquittal, O'Donnell lost a bid this year for a seat on the Ohio Supreme Court Outgoing Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, who lost reelection this year following fallout from the Black community and after he protected 12 Cleveland cops from indictments on criminal charges for g

Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty denying Blacks, others due process by rushing criminal cases through the courts Common Pleas Judge John Sutula says, McGinty says that slow case dockets deny victims speedy redress and act to manipulate defendants' speedy trial rights....Blacks get harsher sentences by the majority White common pleas judges, a Cleveland NAACP commissioned study found..... Cuyahoga County includes the largely Black city of Cleveland....By Editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John Sutula Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Administrative and Presiding Judge John Russo 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 ) CLEVELAND, Ohio - Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John Sutula has accused County Prosecutor Tim McGinty of picking up old criminal cases, some of them lingering for more than two decades,  and rushing them through the courts, and of simply rushing the cases through in general. And in  turn, says Sutula,

Plain Dealer and NOMG article on November 29 first anniversary rally and vigil of deadly 137 shots tragic shooting of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Tim Russell by 13 all non-Black Cleveland police officers, also get this Plain Dealer article on the stands today, November 30, 2013

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By  Cory Shaffer | Northeast Ohio Media Group   (NOMG) Email the author  |  Follow on Twitter   on November 29, 2013 at 2:30 PM, updated  November 29, 2013 at 9:40 PM Malissa Williams and Tim Russell CLEVELAND, Ohio – The number 137 is standing out to many community groups in Cleveland like few others. That’s the number of shots 13 Cleveland  police officers fired at Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams a year ago Friday , ending a 25-minute police chase across Cleveland into neighboring East Cleveland. And 365 days later, some of those  community groups  say they have seen little done to correct “the worst catastrophe in the police department’s history.” ( Read on below or  CLICK THIS LINK HERE TO READ THE FULL PLAIN DEALER STORY AT CLEVELAND.COM AND TO WATCH THE ASSOCIATED VIDEO  ) “Ninety percent of the people we talk to in the community feel that Malissa and Timothy have not gotten any justice,” said Art McKoy, founder of Black On Black Crime. The r