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Cleveland police begin wearing body cameras following damning DOJ report and high profile police shootings of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Tim Russell with 137 bullets, and Tamir Rice, and the police killing of Tanisha Anderson

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A police body camera that resembles a regular camera and is worn on an officer's button or zipper shirt, utility belt or uniform shirt pockets.  Cleveland City Council has purchased 1,200  of this type of body camera for Cleveland police to sport. A type  of police body camera known as a flex camera that resembles a flashlight and is  worn by police as eye-wear , and can be attached to officers' hats, collars, and bodies, and can be mounted to the dash of a police cruiser. Cleveland City Council has purchased 300 of this type of body camera  for Cleveland police to sport. 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.  Coleman is a community  activist, educator and 21-year investigative journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( w