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Community Activist Kathy Wray Coleman speaks to reporters Friday night, November 29, 2013, at Heritage Middle School in East Cleveland at a first anniversary rally and vigil for justice for Malissa Williams and Tim Russell, both Black, both unarmed, and both shot at 137 times and killed by 13 White Cleveland police officers, photo by Community Activist Laura Cowan, at the rally Coleman called for Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty and Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine to push for an indictment of criminal charges against the police officers or to 'step down' from their political jobs, Plain Dealer Newspaper, the Northeast Ohio Media Group, and Cleveland news channels 5, 3, 8 and 19 cover event

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Photo by Community Activist Laura Cowan, a domestic violence and rape survivor and computer analyst at the Cuyahoga County Metropolitan Housing Authority in Cleveland.  CLEVELAND, Ohio-Community Activist Kathy Wray Coleman speaks before reporters on Nov. 29, 2013 at Heritage Middle School in East Cleveland, Ohio at the first anniversary rally and vigil for gunned down unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Tim Russell, both shot with 137 b ullets heading at them following a Cleveland police car chase that began in downtown Cleveland and ended in neighboring East Cleveland on Nov. 29, 2012.  Read the story on this event at  www.clevelandurbannews.com . Pictured to the right of Ms. Coleman in the red hat is the mother of Malissa Williams, and in the wheelchair is Malissa Williams' grandmother. Also pictured is Community Activist Ernie Smith, in the yellow shirt, of the Oppressed People's Nation, who led the rally and vigil, both organized by several grou...