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Community activists to protest today, Dec 3, over 137 bullets shooting death by Cleveland police of Black victims Timothy Ray Russell and Malissa Williams at intersection of Lee and Terrace Roads in East Cleveland, police union leaders are calling it 'a good shooting'

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Malissa Williams and Timothy Ray Russell By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-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, Dec 3 at 4 pm at the intersection of Lee and Terrace Roads in East Cleveland over the shooting deaths last week by Cleveland police of Timothy Ray Russell, 43, and Malissa Williams, 30, both Black.  Some 30 police cars, 13 from Cleveland,  were involved in a 25 minute police chase from the Cuyahoga County Justice Center in Cleveland of the car Russell was driving with Williams as a passenger that went into East Cleveland by Heritage Middle School at Wymore and Terrace Avenues with 137 bullets into the car. Police have said that police allegedly heard a gunshot. The unprecedented shooting  has outraged the Black community and family members of the two victims that were not wanted by the law but