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Michael Brown attorney to represent family of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old whom Cleveland police killed, attorneys join community activists to call for Mayor Frank Jackson to fire safety director Michael McGrath and former safety director Martin Flask, now a chief assistant to the mayor, attorneys also want community oriented police advisory board and say the family does not trust Cleveland police to push for an indictment of the White police officer that shot and Rice

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Samaria Rice, the mother of Tamir Rice, the 12-year old boy who was fatally shot by police speaks during a news conference at the Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland on Dec. 8, 2014.  To the left of Samaria Rice is Rice family Attorney Benjamin Crump, who also represents the families of slain Black unarmed teens  Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.  To the right of Samaria Rice is Akron based attorney Walter Madison, who will assist Crump in the controversial case that has caused racial unrest in the largely Black major metropolitan city of Cleveland.  Photo by  Aaron Josedczyk—Reuters  www.reuters.com 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   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )  Tamir Rice CLEVELAND, Ohio - Led by the Rev. Al Sharpton, the family of 12-year-old Cl