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Cleveland police union ignores petitions delivered by Tamir Rice's mother for it to cease efforts to get the White Cleveland cop's job back that shot and killed Tamir, state law of which only allows the union and not the individual union member standing to seek to overturn an arbitrator's adverse decision of a firing, or an arbitrator's ruling in general.... Twelve-year-old Tamir Rice was gunned down in under two seconds....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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Samaria Rice, the mother of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, whom Cleveland police gunned down in 2014, speaks at a press conference on Monday, June 3, 2019 after delivering petitions with more than 170,000 signatures to Cleveland police union headquarters that demand that the union cease efforts to overturn an arbitration decision that upheld the city's firing of the White cop that shot and killed the Black child in under two seconds.  Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LE

Cleveland police union president Steve Loomis ousted by former union president Jeff Follmer after Councilman Zack Reed, whom the police union endorsed, loses a mayoral run-off to three-term Black Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson.....Loomis upset the Black community and community activists as to his controversial stance in support of Cleveland police fatal shootings of unarmed Blacks, including Tamir Rice, Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell, as well as relative to his opposition to the consent decree for police reforms....Follmer also publicly supported Cleveland cops that gunned down unarmed Blacks with impunity when he was union president before Loomis.....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million readers on Google Plus alone. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com

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Jeff Follmer (left) and Steve Loomis, Follmer ousting Loomis this week to again lead the Cleveland police union as the new president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson (left) and Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed, who squared off in the Nov 7, 2017 general election for mayor of the largely Black major American city, with Jackson winning an unprecedented fourth term. Reed lost in spite of an endorsement from the Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association, the cornerstone of his failed campaign Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As

By Kathy Wray Coleman: Mayor Jackson gives Cleveland police a 'B' grade and an 'A' for professionalism during State of the City address in spite of unrest around the 137 shots police murder of 2 unarmed Blacks, tragic shooting is reenacted today, dead victim's family member says that 'they are reenacting the murdering,' police union president that called the shooting 'a good shooting' attends reenactment spearheaded by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine

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By  Kathy Wray Coleman,  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. (Kathy Wray Coleman is a 20-year investigative and political journalist and legal reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's Black press) www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, the city's third Black mayor who is two months into his third four-year term, gave his State of the City address on Wednesday at Public Auditorium and surprised people by giving the Cleveland Police Department a 'B' grade and an 'A' for professionalism, even in the wake of a deadly 137 shots gunning down of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell by 13 all non-Black police officers who are still on the job. Moreover, the Ohio Bureau of Identification