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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

BREAKING NEWS: Cuyahoga County sheriff's deputies kill Middleburg Heights man, Middleburg Heights Police Department has history of corruption against Blacks, women supported by Fat-boy Berea Judge Mark Comstock and Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor.... Berea Court, that hears Middleburg Heights cases, denies indigent Blacks counsel with support from O'Connor, Cleveland NAACP Attorneys James Hardiman and Michael Nelson and former chapter president George Forbes, White Middleburg Heights Police Sgt Kevin Hoover, who accused the shooting victim of assaulting him, is allegedly a dirty racist, corrupt cop that should be removed from the force and who follows Blacks that ride in cars through the city after being lured there to allegedly harass them for corrupt politicians, data suggest that Hoover could be the reason for the shooting victim allegedly loosing his cool

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Fat-boy Berea Municipal Court Judge Mark Comstock From left: Former Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes,  Cleveland Attorney and Ohio ACLU Legal Director James Hardiman,  and Cleveland Attorney Michael Nelson Sr. Republican Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog  K a thy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 20 year investigative, political and legal journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS, Ohio- Cuyahoga County deputy sheriffs killed a man at his home in Middleburg Heights earlier today. The man, Israel London, died of a gunshot wound to the head, the Cuyahoga County medical examiner said. Cuyahoga County is Ohio's largest of 88 counties

By Editor Kathy Wray Coleman: Exclusive interview with Judge Angela Stokes's attorney on her response to bar complaint by Ohio Supreme Court Office of Disciplinary Counsel, her attorney denies all allegations, Black elected officials comment, community activists allege racism, sexism against Stokes

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Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Angela Stokes  By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog  K a thy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 20 year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's Black press with print  newspapers  in Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio. The Call and Post is published by international boxing promoter Don King ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) Stokes Attorney Richard Alkire CLEVELAND, Ohio-Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Angela Stokes, through her attorneys,  has filed a 41-page response to a 49 page complaint filed earlier this month by the Office of Disciplinary Counsel of the  Ohio Supreme Court. And  in an exclusive one-on-one interview with Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper, Stokes attorney said during that interv

Ohio lawmakers remove amendment to budget bill that required that Ohioans on food stamps be drug tested, Cleveland NAACP officials, Black Cleveland lawmakers like State Sen. Shirley Smith suggest that the bill is racist, sexist, elitist and unconstitutional, State Sen. Nina Turner had threatened a bill for Ohio lawmakers to be drug tested in response to requiring it only for poor people on food stamps and other welfare

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   Ohio State Sen.  Nina Turner, left (D-Cleveland) Ohio State Sen. Shirley Smith, right (D-Cleveland) By Kath y Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) COLUMBUS, Ohio- The Ohio State Legislature last week removed an amendment added a day earlier to the budget bill that required that Ohioans on food stamps and other welfare be drug tested for potential illegal drugs in order to get or to continue getting federally allocated public assistance, a proposed state law pushed mainly by Republicans that some Ohio lawmakers and community activists say is racist, sexist, elitist, and an unconstitutional stretch that goes too far. "It's unconstitutional and targets Blacks, women, poor people and other minorities," said Dr. Eugene Jordan, an East Cleveland dentist, community activist and second vice president of the Cleveland NAACP. &quo

Zimmerman charged with murder of Trayvon, mass rally in Cleveland with Vision of Angels, NAACP, SCLC, United Pastor's in Mission officials, grassroots, Imperial Women Coalition, Black on Black Crime, Oppressed People's Nation, The People's Forum, The Family Connection, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, The Cleveland Chapter of the New Black Panther Party, Peace in the Hood, The Carl Stokes Brigade, The Cleveland Chapter of the New Black Panther Party, Occupy Cleveland, Cleveland Jobs With Justice, elected officials and more, set for Sun, April 15, 3:00 pm, 2nd New Hope Baptist Church, 2917 E. 116th St. at Buckeye Ave., State Sen. Turner to speak, read Senate resolution, Second New Hope Baptist Church Pastor Frank Young to open with prayer, Cleveland City Council Members, Cleveland Area Ohio State Representatives, Office of Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, elected officials, clergy, youth, grassroots to speak

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                 Trayvon Martin By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News.Com  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-In the wake of the announcement yesterday by a special prosecutor that volunteer neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman will be charged with second degree murder in the killing of unarmed seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin the Vision of Angels Youth Dance Troop, the Imperial Women Coalition, community  activists, clergy, youth, elected officials, the United Pastor's in Mission and Cleveland NAACP and SCLC  officials will go forward with a mass rally for Martin scheduled for Sun. April 15 from 3:00 to 6:00 pm at Second New Hope Baptist Church in Cleveland, 2917 E. 116th St at Buckeye Ave .   (Editor's note: View a complete list of rally speakers and participating organizations toward the middle of this article) Mitchell said that Sunday's rally will begin outside of the church at 3:00 pm and that at 4:00 pm Martin's supporters

Cleveland activists, college students to protest today, March 23, 4 pm at Tower City over Trayvon Martin murder

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Trayvon Martin NAACP President Ben Jealous The Rev. Al Sharpton By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog. Com and Cleveland Urban News.Com News.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) (Editor's note: The capitalized typing in parts of this article is beyond are technical control and is only occurring as to this controversial article) CLEVELAND,Ohio-Community activist groups and area high school and college students will gather on Fri., March 23, at 4 pm at Tower City in downtown Cleveland to rally and then march to the Cuyahoga County Justice Center, 1200 Ontario St, to express outrage over the handling of the the shooting death of unarmed 17-year-old Black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin by a White neighborhood watchmen in the gated community where his father lives. Anger over the killing of the Black teen as generated nationwide protests with the U.S. Department of Justice launching an investigation around th