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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

Community activist and journalist Kathy Wray Coleman is the guest on the Art McKoy radio show on WERE 1490 AM in Cleveland on June 21 at 5:30 pm....The radio show call in number is 216-578-1490, and topics include racism, sexism, police brutality, violence against women, theft of homes of Cuyahoga County residents and judicial and prosecutorial malfeasance against the Black community....Led by activists Art McKoy and Don Bryant, activists will picket University Heights police on July 6 at 6 pm at University Heights City Hall.... By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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Community activist Kathy Wray Coleman (above) speaks to the mainstream media at an anti-police brutality rally in  greater  Cleveland in response to Cleveland police shootings of unarmed Blacks . To Ms Coleman's right is the mother of Malissa William, 30, who was gunned down along with Timothy Russell, 43, in 2012 by 13 non Black  Cleveland  cops  slinging  137 bullets. Only one of the officers, Michael Brelo, was charged, and was acquitted of manslaughter charges in May by Cuayhoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell.   (Photo by Laura Cowan) . From the Metro Desk of  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. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  Community activist and WERE 1490 AM radio host Art McKoy CLEVELAND, Ohio -Greater Cleveland community activist and loc

Judge John O'Donnell refuses to say when he will issue a verdict in the Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo manslaughter case, an activist request that he take a mental exam....Data show that O'Donnell stole homes from county residents for JPMorgan Chase Bank, others in cases without plaintiffs where he had no authority to hear the cases, and he stalked Black people that complained, some for as long as 12 years, public records reveal....Brelo gunned down two unarmed Blacks with 49 bullets.... O'Donnell is supported in his theft of homes and harassment of Blacks by officials of the Cleveland NAACP, data show....By 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 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. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.  K athy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 22- year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper.     ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  CLEVELAND, Ohio- Though the defense has rested in the officer Michael Brelo manslaughter case and oral arguments were held on May 5, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell, a documented thief who stole homes from country residents via fake foreclosures without plaintiffs in an effort to hand them to JPMorgan Chase Bank and other banks and mortgage companies for a fourth of the value, refuses to say when he will issue a verdict.   (Editor

The defense rest: Greater Cleveland community activists to protest on two separate occasions on May 4 at 10 am, and two hours after any Cleveland Police Officer Michael Brelo manslaughter verdict by Judge O'Donnell on Lakeside Avenue at Justice Center...Activists call for a conviction....Tamir Rice family to attend May 4 rally....Brelo gunned down two unarmed Blacks with 49 bullets....Call Art McKoy at (216) 253-4070 for more information....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,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog, Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.  K athy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 22- year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper.     ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell CLEVELAND, Ohio- Greater Cleveland community activists groups will protest at the Cuyahoga County Justice Center on Lakeside Avenue in downtown Cleveland on two occasions, on Monday, May 4 at 10 am, and two hours after any manslaughter verdict of Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo. On Thursday, the defense rested, and closing arguments are set for Tuesday, May 5.  The verdict rally will go on, organizers said, regardless of the verdict by Common Pleas Judge J

Updated: Fired former Cuyahoga County Sheriff Bob Reid, a candidate for county executive, stole foreclosed homes for JPMorgan Chase Bank, other banks, mortgage companies with help from common pleas judges such as judges Carolyn Friedland and John O'Donnell, former county prosecutor Bill Mason overlooked foreclosure theft for his now law firm of Bricker and Eckler, who represents JPMorgan Chase Bank, other banks, mortgage companies: Community activists want theft evidence presented to county grand jury for possible criminal indictments, activists also call for county inspector general Nailah Byrd to investigate, National Mortgage Settlement gave homeowners who lost their homes small part of $26 billion settlement for foreclosure impropriety by JPMorgan Chase Bank, Wells Fargo, others, NAACP took testimony around the alleged foreclosure fraud in Cuyahoga County, Reid is a Democrat for Cuyahgoga County executive pushing Chase Bank and Republicans and has said that Blacks do not need early voting

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Fired former Cuyahoga County sheriff Bob Reid 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, Ohio-A four-year Cleveland Urban News.Com comprehensive investigation reveals that fired former Cuyahoga County sheriff Bob Reid, a candidate for the Democratic primary for county executive this year, stole foreclosed homes when he was sheriff by reducing the appraisal values in violation of state law and selling them back, through sheriffs sales, to mortgage companies under subsidiary names, and to banks and a host of others at a fraction of the value. The documented theft, the investigation s