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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

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

Judge John P. O'Donnell is accused of unethical behavior and prejudice in filing before the Ohio Supreme Court that seeks his disqualification from the 137 shots manslaughter case of Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo, O'Donnell scheduled the trial for October 22 for publicity relative to his bid this November to unseat Ohio Supreme Court Justice Judith French and on the day of a police brutality rally by the revolutionary communist party, Brelo's lawyer says in the filing, O'Donnell is also under fire for the documented theft of homes via illegal foreclosures for JPMorgan Chase Bank, others, O'Donnell leads other judges in refusing to dismiss criminal cases for a lack of evidence when most of the defendants are Black, a Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper investigation reveals

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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 Email:editor@clevelandurbannews.com, Tel: (216) 659-0473).   Ka thy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 20 year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years under five different editors at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's most prominent Black print press.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John P. O'Donnell Cleveland Patrolman Michael Brelo CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John P. O'Donnell has been accused of unethical and prejudicial behavior by the attorney of criminally charged 137 shots  Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo  and could be barred by Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor from hearing the high profile case. Brelo is charged wi

Community activists to protest today, April 4, at 5 pm on Public Square in downtown Cleveland over the 137 bullets shooting deaths by a group of White Cleveland police officers of Malissa Wiliams and Timothy Russell, other victims of violence are encouraged to attend

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Malissa Williams and Timothy Ray Russell 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 ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio-Community activists will protest today, April 4, at 5 pm on Public Square in downtown Cleveland over fatal police shootings, including the shooting deaths late last year by Cleveland police of unarmed Blacks Malissa Wiliams, 30, and Timothy Russell, 43, both gunned down with a hail of some 137 bullets following a police chase from downtown Cleveland that ended near a middle school in the neighboring city of East Cleveland.  The rally will also address other victims of violence in Greater Cleveland, organizers said. For more information contact Khalid Samad at 216-538-4043 or Griot Y-Von at 216-355-3374. Some 65 police cars were involved in a 28 minute police chase with 13 all non-Black Cleveland police officers participating in the deadl