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Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson calls for calm as the community awaits a verdict by Judge O'Donnell in the manslaughter trial of Cleveland Police Officer Michael Brelo, Cleveland Black clergy support the mayor, community activists say that the mayor must know how O'Donnell will rule....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Cleveland Police Patrolman Michael Brelo 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 ). (If you are reading this too, you are keeping  abreast of the news from Cleveland Ohio, and from its news leader of Cleveland Urban News.Com). Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson is calling for calm as an anxious community awaits a decision in upcoming days on whether  Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell will find Cleveland police officer Michae

Public invited to give police brutality testimony along with uncle of Tamir Rice, Ferguson protesters, others at the CSU Main Classroom Building, room, 201, from 12-4 pm on Saturday, April 11, 2015, the free event is spearheaded by Puncture the Silence Cleveland...Call Carol Steiner at (216) 932-3474 for more information, panelists include an uncle of slain California police victim Oscar Grant....Mother of Daniel Ficker also to testify..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 Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Coleman, who is Black, is a 22-year investigative journalist and political and legal reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio - Community activists groups, led by the local chapter of    the national Puncture the Silence-Stop Mass Incarceration Network, invite the public to join an uncle of Tamir Rice, a Ferguson Missouri activist, and others to give testimony on police brutality before a panel from 12-4 pm on Saturday, April 11 at the Cleveland State University Main Classroom Building (room 201) in downtown Cleveland at 2121 Euclid Avenue. (Interested media and others wanting additional information should

Civil Rights Attorney David Malik arrested, the attorney for Tanisha Anderson,Tamir Rice, who settled the 137 shots lawsuit against Cleveland police, pleads not guilty to gun charges, Malik says he carried unloaded gun, ammunition in luggage to airport by mistake

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Attorney David Malik By Kathy Wray Coleman , editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's leaders in Black digital news.   Coleman is a 21-year investigative journalist and political and legal reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.     ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /     ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio    -Prominent Cleveland area Civil Rights attorney David Malik, who has represented clients in several high-profile lawsuits against Cleveland police and the city, including the family of Tanisha Anderson, the 37-year-old mentally ill woman who died in police custody in November, and unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell, whom Cleveland police gunned down in November 2012 while slinging 37 bullets, was in court himself earlier today. (Editor's more: Malik was also the original attorney in the still pending wrongful death

Cleveland Ward 1 residents, Black elected officials, police union president and community activists speak out on new Cleveland police body cameras at community forum that follows racial unrest on police killings, including Tamir Rice, Tanisha Anderson, and 137 shots police shooting victims Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell, second forum is January 28 at 7 pm at the Covenant Community Church in Cleveland

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Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed Cleveland Ward 1 Councilman Terrell Pruitt By Johnette Jernigan and 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) 659-047 3. Cleveland Police Patrolman's Association President Steve Loomis ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )  CLEVELAND, Ohio-Ward 1 residents were  given the opportunity on Tuesday during a community forum  at the Harvard Community Services Center on Cleveland's largely Black  east side to voice concerns over police body cameras  that will be implemented next month per an ordinance adopted last year by Cleveland City Council.  The second of the two meetings scheduled for community input  is Wednesday January 28 at 7 pm at the Covenant Community Church in Cleveland, 3342 East 119th Street. Harvard Community Serv

Settlement amount announced in 137 shots Cleveland police fatal shooting of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell, Russell estate attorney Terry Gilbert says excessive force by Cleveland police is still a problem and that 'the fight is just beginning,' Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty protected 12 of the 13 non-Black cops that killed Williams and Russell from charges by county grand jury, Gilbert thanks community activists for support in the case

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An array of Cleveland police cars chase two unarmed Blacks from downtown Cleveland to neighboring East Cleveland the night of November  29 , 2012. The 23 minute car chase ended in the parking lot of Heritage Middle School in East Cleveland and culminated in 13 non- Black Cleveland police officers firing a total of 137 bullets at unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams 30, and Timothy Ray Russell, 43, the driver of the 1979 Chevy Malibu. Both Russell and Williams died at the scene. Cleveland police shooting victim Malissa Williams Cleveland police shooting victim Timothy Russell Cleveland Civil Rights and Constitutional Attorney Terry Gilbert, who represents the estate of  Timothy Russell relative to the affiliated wrongful death and excessive force lawsuit that the city of Cleveland recently settled  By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-n-chief,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper

Cuyahoga County judge and former state senator Lance Mason arrested for allegedly beating wife, who filed for divorce on Monday, Shaker Heights Judge K.J. Montgomery sets bond at more than five times more than the bond Mason set for 137 shots Cleveland policemen Michael Brelo, who faces manslaughter charges, Black Ohio trial court judges subject to legal or disciplinary trouble are treated differently than White judges, an investigation reveals, keeping Mason for a mental evaluation in jail could be politically motivated since the city of Shaker Heights brought the charges and its city prosecutor, Randolph Keller, wants to run for county judge, Montgomery is holding Mason in jail for a psychiatric evaluation, likely in violation of state law, By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas  Judge Lance Mason 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  K a thy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 20 year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Cleveland Police Patrolman Michael Brelo A COMPREHENSIVE REPORT SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio- A Black Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas judge charged by the city of Shaker Heights with beating his wife over the weekend received a surety bond from Shaker Heights Municipal Court Judge K.J. Montgomery more than three times the bond amount the jailed judge set in June for Patrolman Michael Brelo, who is White and faces two-counts of voluntary manslaughter in the 137 shots Cleveland police killings of unarmed Blacks Malis