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Plain Dealer Reporter Pat Galbincea covers forum at Shaw High School on 137 bullets shooting deaths sponsored by Cleveland NAACP on Friday, victims family members, Mayor Norton, Cleveland NAACP President Hilton Smith, community activists speak, community activists, led by Donna Walker Brown, Art McKoy, Khalid Samad, protest before forum and call for local and county authorities and police, including Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, to step aside and permit the FBI to control the investigation around the shooting

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Malissa Williams and Timothy Ray Russell Impatient crowd implores NAACP, East Cleveland mayor and police chief for justice in Nov. 29 Cleveland police shooting (Plain Dealer article where community members, victims family attend Cleveland NAACP forum on 137 bullets shooting deaths of Malissa Williams and Timothy Ray Russell, both pictured, at Shaw High School in East Cleveland on Friday evening. Before the forum community activists, led by Art McKoy, Donna Walker Brown, Imperial Women Representative Genevieve Mitchell and Khalid Samad,  protested in front of Shaw High School demanding that local authorities and police, Cuyahoga County Sheriff Bob Reid, and county prosecutor Tim McGinty step aside to ensure a neutral investigation and allow the FBI to take total control over the case) By  Pat Galbincea, The Plain Dealer  on December 14, 2012 at 10:00 PM, updated  December 14, 2012 at 10:15 PM Email (Photo by  Gus Chan, Th

Community forum sponsored by Cleveland NAACP on 137 bullets deadly shootings is Friday at 6 pm at Shaw High School, police, Mayor Norton, city officials to answer community questions, community activists to protest there at 5:30 pm for FBI control of investigation, role of Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, who took campaign contributions and was endorsed for election by Cleveland police union

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East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton Cleveland NAACP Interim Director Arlene Anderson Community Activist Art McKoy, a founder of the grassroots group Black on Black Crime Inc. Community Activist Khalid Samad, who leads the grassroots group Peace in the Hood  Democratic Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, a controversial figure and retired Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas judge who took campaign contributions and was endorsed this year for election for the seat by the Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association. Community activists are investigating his role in the investigation as a potential conflict of interest.  Malissa Williams, 30, and Timothy Ray Russell, 43, both shot at 137 times and gunned down two weeks ago by a group of White Cleveland police officers following a car chase from Cleveland that led into East Cleveland, a nearby predominantly Black and impoverished suburb of Cleveland, which is also majority Black and Ohio's second larges