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From the Metro Desk of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.determinerweekly.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) A 12-member Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas jury issued verdicts on Monday against a Black college girl on trial for a host of charges including assault on two White male Cleveland Fifth District police officers. Though charged in a 12-count indictment with robbing the police of their guns, child endangerment and numerous counts of assault on a peace officer and resisting arrest, the jury found her guilty last month of assault on a police officer, and resisting arrest. The girl's mother, also named Rebecca Whitby, was acquitted of two counts of felony assault against police but convicted of a fifth degree felony count of obstruction of justice for allegedly seeking to shield her daughter from an attack and beating by police the night the girl was arrested. “The jury opted for a compromise on the verdicts," s

Cleveland Ward 8 Councilman Jeff Johnson From the Metro Desk of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.determinerweekly.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) Cleveland Ward 8 Councilman Jeff Johnson, whose representative base includes the Glenville area, has scheduled a meeting with members of the Imperial Women Coalition to address their concerns, including issues as to the Imperial Ave. Murders and the mistreatment of Blacks and women by police and the courts “The meeting is confirmed,” said Johnson, a licensed attorney and former State Sen. Johnson’s meeting with the Coalition is scheduled for Wed., Feb 9 at 5:30 pm at his ward office at 10553 St. Clair Avenue in the Glenville Town Plaza next to the Dots Department Store. For more information contact Johnson's City Hall office at 216-664-4231. The telephone number to reach the Imperial Women is 216-932-3114. “We are pleased that Councilman Johnson has opened his doors to the grass

Plain Dealer Online Photo of Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Stanley Miller From the Metro Desk of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.determinerweekly.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) (Statement below from Imperial Women leader Kathy Wray Coleman as to the pending trial before Cuyahoga Judge Daniel Gaul of Rebecca Whitby, 25, and her mother, also named Rebecca Whitby. Both are being railroaded with charges of assault on the Cleveland Fifth District Police officers, whom an elderly White neighbor says she witnessed beat up the younger Rebecca and allegedly called her a "nigger.") Allegedly over the off record objection of defense counsel Terry Gilbert, Cuyahoga Court of Common Pleas Judge Daniel Gaul has ordered Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Stanley Miller to testify tomorrow in the trial of a Black college girl and her mother, both on trial for allegedly assaulting White police officers after the girl was alleg

Plain Dealer Online Photo of Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Stanley Miller From the Metro Desk of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.determinerweekly.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) At an unofficial meeting of the Cleveland NAACP on Sat. that did not draw a quorum of its executive committee members, its executive director, in a heated discussion with Imperial Women leader Kathy Wray Coleman, admitted that he led a grand jury in indicting a Black college student on charges she allegedly assaulted the two White male Cleveland Fifth District police officers now accused of calling her a nigger and beating her unjustly. “I was the grand jury foreman in that case but they told us she was drunk and lunged at police,” said Stanley Miller, the corporate driven executive director of the local Cleveland NAACP who also told the audience of 30 people that Black people should not call the police if they are drunk and having a family disp

Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes From the Metro Desk of the DeterminerWeekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.determinerweekly.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) Following a unified push for a meeting with Cleveland NAACP officials, its executive director has agreed to meet with the Imperial Women Coalition on Sat. Jan 29 from 11:30 pm to 3:30 pm at the Covenant Community Church of Cleveland, 3342 East 119th St. at Kinsman Rd. (Church telephone number is 216-561-5990, Cleveland Chapter NAACP: 216-231-6260 and the Imperial Women Coalition: 216-932-3114). “I spoke with Mr. Miller and he said that he would lead the meeting and attend with some executive committee members,” said Frances Caldwell, a spokesperson for the Imperial Women Coalition. “Mr. Miller also said that all coalition issues would be heard but by priority and that that the two most important ones are the Imperial Ave Murders and the prosecution of Destini Bronaugh by the City of

A group of grassroots leaders and some family members of the 11 Black women whose remains were uncovered in Oct. of 2009 at a house on Imperial Ave in Cleveland voted either yesterday or at a prior meeting to picket the Cleveland Chapter NAACP. "We are proud of the unified position taken where everybody that either attended the meeting yesterday or was contacted by telephone to vote voted to protest at a date set by the group in Feb. unless a meeting with Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Stanley Miller or branch President George Forbes, and other NAACP affiliates, materializes," said Kathy Wray Coleman on the Imperial Women. Coleman said that NAACP officials said today that Mr. Miller to date has not scheduled any official meeting, though a grassroots member told her some underhanded person advised that efforts are underway to try to divide the coalition to protect corrupt judges from being assigned by random draw and as to the demand for accountability as to the Imperial A

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Cleveland Ward 9 Councilman Kevin Conwell Cleveland NAACP President and Call and Post Newspaper General Counsel George Forbes Former Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Ann Keough Community Activist Art McKoy Ward 6 Precinct Committeeman John Boyd Journalist and Editor Kathy Wray Coleman From the Metro Desk of the Determiner Weekly.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com (www.determinerweekly.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) (The article below includes comments and/or statements as to Mayor Frank Jackson, Attorney George Forbes, Call and Post Publisher Don King, Editor Connie Harper, Retired Judge Sara Harper, U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge, Attorney James Hardiman, Kathy Wray Coleman, the Rev. David Hunter, Councilman Kevin Conwell, County Council Persons Yvonne Conwell and Julian Rogers, East Cleveland Council Persons Barbara Thomas and Nathaniel Martin, Judge Kathleen Ann Keough, Robert Triozzi, Judge Ron Adrine, John Boyd, Bever