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Ferguson protesters join Clevelanders to rally for Tamir Rice, against police shootings, and the police killings nationally of unarmed Black men and boys: Protesters storm Tower City, Walmart, block traffic, spar with Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams, who calmed protesters, two on-duty NYPD police officers killed the same day, the Rev Al Sharpton comments: Indigent Blacks denied counsel in Berea, Bedford and Cleveland Heights courts with support from Cleveland NAACP officials and its attorneys

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A protester rallies for 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was shot and killed by Cleveland police on Nov. 22 for sporting a pellet toy gun at a public park on the city's largely White west side. Several events over the weekend drew protesters as far away as Ferguson, Missouri to the largely Black major metropolitan city of Cleveland, and highlighted police killings of unarmed Black men and boys throughout the country, including Michael Brown, and Eric Garner. Miles away, and in an unrelated incident in New York City, but also on Saturday afternoon, two on-duty New York police officers were shot and killed execution style by a suspected gunman who took his own life with a self inflicted gun shot wound. Read about both incidents in the below article by Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news. 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 new...

Tamir Rice death by Cleveland police ruled a homicide a day before his mother takes center stage at March on Washington, Cleveland activists go in support of Rice, others, Samaria Rice joins stage with Sharpton, mothers of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner: Activist Ada Averyhart, 80, says Mayor Jackson better do something about Cleveland police, and that it will get worse before it gets better, says the mayor needs support and that she still supports him

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From left: Lesley McSpadden , the mother of slain police victim and Ferguson,  Missouri teen Michael Brown, the Rev. Al Sharpton, a Civil Rights icon, MSNBC political host and president of the New York-based National Action Network,  Sabrina Fulton,  the mother of  police victim and  slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin, and Samaria Rice, the mother of slain unarmed 12-year-old Cleveland police victim Tamir Rice 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. Kathy Wray 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 ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )  Tamir Rice WASHINGTON, D.C.- A day after a Cuyahoga County coroner formally ruled the pol...