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Democrats Jennifer Brunner and John O'Donnell to run for separate Ohio Supreme Court seats in 2020, O'Donnell still under fire for acquitting ex-Cleveland cop Michael Brelo of manslaughter charges after he gunned down two unarmed Blacks with 49 bullets, the judge losing a 2016 bid for the state's high court by less than one percent after Black Cleveland elected officials, led by Councilman Kevin Conwell, rallied voters against him regarding the Brelo verdict, which followed a bench trial....O'Donnell is also under fire for stealing homes from county residents for JPMorgan Chase Bank via illegal foreclosures....Justice Melody Stewart is the sole Black on the Ohio Supreme Court, and the first Black and first Black female elected to that court, which is led by Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor, the court's first female chief justice....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog

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Ohio 10th District Court of Appeals Judge Jennifer Brunner, also a former Ohio secretary of state, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell, and Cleveland Ward 9 Councilman Kevin Conwell, Brunner and O'Donnell seeking election in 2020 as Democrats to two seats on the seven-member Ohio Supreme Court, currently of which is majority Republican, and has one Black justice, Democratic Justice Melody Stewart  By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief  at   Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ,  Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog.  Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.   Coleman is an experienced Black political reporter who covered the 2008 presidential election for the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio and the presidential elections in 2012 and 2016 As to the one-on-one interview by Coleman with Obama   CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S

Activists to protest as Cleveland police supervisors go on trial in East Cleveland as to the fatal chase from Cleveland to East Cleveland, the two supervisors facing dereliction of duty charges with Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and Police Chief Calvin Williams subpoenaed to testify...."We invite people to the sleepover in front of the East Cleveland courthouse and to the trial in East Cleveland," said activist Art McKoy....Activist Kathy Wray Coleman, who organized rallies around the shooting with McKoy, called the tragic killings by Cleveland police "execution-style and senseless and irresponsible".... Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell, both of them unarmed, were both gunned down following the chase that culminated in 13 non-Black Cleveland cops shooting 137 bullets into the car driven by Russell, 43, with Williams, 30, as a passenger....All 13 of the shooter cops went free and the 2 Cleveland police supervisors face dereliction of duty charges for allegedly failing to control the chase....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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Cleveland activist Kathy Wray Coleman of the Imperial Women Coalition speaks to the mainstream media at a rally for justice for unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams, 30, and Timothy Russell, 43, that she organized with activists Art McKoy and Alfred Porter Jr., both Russell and Williams gunned down by 13 non-Black Cleveland cops slinging 137 bullets following a high speed chase from downtown Cleveland to neighboring East Cleveland, all of the 13 shooting cops going free as two police supervisors face trial in East Cleveland Municipal Court on July 15, 2019 on misdemeanor dereliction of duty charges for allegedly failing to control the deadly chase. To Coleman's direct right are the mother of Williams (wearing red hat) and her mother's sister, who has since died. Coleman says she has been harassed by cops, and judges, among others, for organizing rallies around the killings of Williams and Russell by Cleveland police and called them "execution-style and senseless and i

Anti-police brutality rally: Activists to rally outside of Cleveland City Hall on July 2, 2017 at noon to demand that the city appeal an arbitration decision to hand 5 of the 6 fired non-Black Cleveland cops that gunned down unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell with 137 bullets to the court of common pleas...13 non-Black Cleveland cops shot 137 bullets, only six of them fired, and only Michael Brelo, who shot 49 of the 137 bullets, should remain fired, arbitrator William Heekin ruled on June 13, 2017 in handing the 5 other killer cops their jobs back....Call (216) 659-0473 for more info on the rally....Activist groups to rally include Black on Black Crime Inc., the Imperial Women Coalition, the Committee for Social Justice, the Carl Stokes Brigade, Refuse Facism.org., the National Black Panther Party, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, the Cleveland People's Forum, and the Black Man's Army.....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of www.clevelandurbannews.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders

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ClevelandUrbanNews.Com  and the    KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com , Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers with some 4.5 million readers on Google Plus alone. And the  ClevelandUrbanNews.Com  website  stats reveal some 26 million hits since 2012. Tel: (216)  659-0473. 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 LEA DER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- Community members and community activists will rally Sunday, July 2, 2017 outside of Cleveland City Hall in downtown Cleveland regarding unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell, who were gunned down in 2012 by 13 non-Black Cleveland cops slinging 137 bullets

137 bullets killer Cleveland cops get their jobs back via arbitration as community activists will rally at 5 pm June 16, 2017 at Heritage Middle School....Malissa Williams and Tim Russell were Black and gunned down unarmed in 2012 following a car chase from Cleveland to East Cleveland and former officer Michael Brelo, who shot 49 of the 137 bullets fired by the 13 non Black cops, will remain fired while five others fired of the 13 non-Black killer cops, only six total of whom were fired, will get their jobs back, the arbitrator ruled....Judge John O'Donnell acquitted Brelo of manslaughter charges in 2015, and lost a bid to the Ohio Supreme Court last year with the help of Black voters, activists and members of Cleveland City Council....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of www.clevelandurbannews.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders

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Cleveland police, in hot pursuit, chase the car driven by Timothy Russell, 43, with Malissa Williams, 30, as a passenger, in 2012, a chase that began in downtown Cleveland and ended in the parking lot of Heritage Middle School in neighboring East Cleveland. Both Black and both unarmed, and neither of them wanted by the law, Williams and Russell were ceremoniously gunned down by 13 non-Black Cleveland cops slinging 137 bullets, officer Michael Brelo of whom fired 49 of the 137 shots Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell, who, per an orchestrated bench trial, acquitted since fired Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo of two counts of manslaughter Pictured are Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson (wearing beard and eye glasses), Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John P. O'Donnell (in sky blue tie),  fired Cleveland police patrolman Michael Brelo (in blue shirt), former Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty (in red-pink tie with