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Community activists, led by Alfred Porter and Kathy Wray Coleman, remember Cleveland police shooting victims Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell on the four-year anniversary of the Cleveland police 137 bullets fatal shooting.... Activists highlighted, via Cleveland Fox 8 News and Cleveland Channel 3 News coverage, that Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty this year lost reelection over his handling of the issue and Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell lost his bid this year to the Ohio Supreme Court for acquitting Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo of manslaughter charges in a bench trial in the case.... Brelo gunned down Williams and Russell slinging 49 of the 137 bullets.....The 12 other Cleveland cops that did the shooting escaped prosecution with McGinty's help....By www.clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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Pictured are since fired Cleveland Police officer Michael Brelo and his fatal shooting victims Malissa Williams, 30, and Timothy Russell, 43. Brelo gunned them down while shooting 49 bullets, and after jumping aboard the hood of the car Russell was driving. Brelo was cleared in May of 2015 of manslaughter charges in a bench trial before Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell Cuyahoga Count Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell, who acquitted since fired Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo of gunning down unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell with 49 bullets. Following fallout from the Black community relative to his controversial acquittal, O'Donnell lost a bid this year for a seat on the Ohio Supreme Court Outgoing Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, who lost reelection this year following fallout from the Black community and after he protected 12 Cleveland cops from indictments on criminal charges for g

Five Dallas cops gunned-down at Alton Sterling protest as racial tensions increase nationwide over heightened police killings of Black people....Greater Cleveland community activists, including Alfred Porter, say they are not shocked ....Clevelanders erroneously killed in recent years by Cleveland police include Tamir Rice, Tanisha Anderson, Malissa Williams, and Timothy Russell, Russell and Williams gunned- down by police slinging 137 bullets....President Obama comments, and the Rev Jesse Jackson says that "we must not fight violence with violence"....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of www.clevelandurbannews.com and www.imperialwomencoalition.com

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( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ). Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com By Editor-in-Chief  Kathy Wray Coleman, a-23-year  journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years, and who interviewed now 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 LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS Kathy Wray Coleman is the most read reporter in Ohio on Google Plus CLICK HERE TO GO TO GOOGLE PLUS TO SEE THE 2.9 MILLION READERS AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM AND THE KATHY WRAY COLEMAN ONLINE NEWS BLOG.COM ON GOOGLE PLUS AND THIS IS IN ADDITION TO FACEBOOK, TWITTER, EMAILS AND MILLIONS OF READERS ON OUR WEBSITE AND BLOG Suspected Dallas sniper Micah Johnson CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-DALLAS, Texas-Five police officers were shot and killed

Cleveland police officers and detectives fired, including officer Michael Brelo, and six suspended as to the 137 shots deadly shooting of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell.....Not all of the cops that did the shooting were fired....The firings should be vacated the police union says, which likely means arbitration ....A consent decree on police reforms with the city and the DOJ remains....Community activists renew the call for Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, who shielded 12 of 13 the cops that did the shooting from criminal charges, to be voted out of office this year, and Congresswoman Fudge wants McGinty gone too.....Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell acquitted Brelo of manslaughter charges....By www.clevelandurbannews.com editor-in-chief Kathy Wray Coleman

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Cleveland police cars chase two unarmed Blacks from downtown Cleveland to neighboring East Cleveland the night of Nov . 29 , 2012. The 23 -minute car chase ended in the parking lot of Heritage Middle School and culminated in 13 non- Black Cleveland police officers firing a total of 137 bullets at Malissa Williams 30, and Timothy Ray Russell, 43, the driver of the 1979 Chevy Malibu. Both Russell and Williams were Black, and both died at the scene.  Some 105 police officers and 64 police cruisers participated at some level in the deadly chase. 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), Cleveland Police Patrolman Michael Brelo (in blue shirt), Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty (in red-pink tie with polka dots), Community activist Art McKoy (in red, black and green turban), 137 shots unarmed Cleveland police fatal shooting victim Malissa Williams (in whit

Minister Louis Farrakhan speaks in Cleveland, Ohio against police killings of unarmed Black people, he condemns the Tamir Rice police shooting, and Judge John O'Donnell's acquittal of police officer Michael Brelo....Farrakhan calls Mayor Jackson a beautiful mayor whose hands are tied by a racist legal system that condones police killings of Black people....He says that the whole system needs to be taken down, and calls for a national boycott of Black Sunday and the Christmas season....By Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor -in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman www.clevelandurbannews.com

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The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan,  national leader of the Nation of Islam, who spoke to an overflow audience in  Cleveland, Ohio on September  3  and condemned  the arbitrary killings  by Cleveland  police of unarmed Black people  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 six different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com Cleveland police fatal shooting victim Malissa Williams Cleveland police fatal shooting victim Timothy Russell Cleveland police fatal 12-year-old shooting victim Tamir Rice CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan (picture