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Community activists to meet over 137 shots fatal Cleveland police shooting, community activist James Box, the Councilman TJ Dow Leadership Institute, foreclosures and violence against women at 6 pm on Tuesday, July 29 at Lil Africa, 6816 Superior Avenue in Cleveland

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Community Activist James Box From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog, Ohio's leaders in Black digital news, Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com and phone us at (216) 659-0473  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- Select greater Cleveland community activists leaders will meet at an open meeting at the Lil Africa/The Kitchen Restaurant and Event Center at 6816 Superior Avenue in Cleveland at 6 pm on Tuesday, July 29 to discuss community issues. The issues, say meeting organizers, include excessive force by Cleveland police and whether community activist James Box is being railroaded relative to a pending criminal case involving two women.  Also briefly discussed will be illegal foreclosures, the epidemic of violence against women in Cuyahoga County, and whether the taking of Cleveland Ward 7 T.J. Dow'

Community activists make demands at stop police brutality rally relative to 137 shots deadly shooting by Cleveland police of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Tim Russell

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PRESS/COMMUNITY RELEASE, JULY 1, 2014 ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )  EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio-Greater Cleveland c ommunity activists, other community members and police brutality victims families members gathered for a rally on July 1, 2014 in the parking lot at Heritage Middle  School   at 14410 Terrace Road in East Cleveland where a deadly shooting occurred the night of November 29, 2012 following a police car chase that began in downtown Cleveland and  ended   in neighboring East Cleveland. The purpose, in part, is to highlight police brutality issues and to make the following demands as to the 137 bullets fatal shooting by 13 non- Black Cleveland police officers of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams, 30,  and Tim Russell, 43, at Heritage Middle School that dark night in November: -That another Cuyahoga County Grand Jury convene, as is done with Black people when a previous grand jury fails to indict, since the previous grand jury failed to indict 12 of the