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Black Cleveland area Ohio legislators fought for gun control and against state law (Senate Bill 17) that now allows people to carry guns in Ohio restaurants, state Rep. Barnes and Patmon, and state Senators Smith and Turner opposed the bill, state Rep. Capri Cafaro of Youngstown supported the measure, Cleveland Urban News.Com remembers Cleveland's Black state legislators for fighting on this gun debate issue

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Below is an archived article of Cleveland Urban News.Com of April 14, 2011 on the fight  by Cleveland Black state legislators for gun control and against Senate Bill 17, which became state law in June 2011 and permits guns in Ohio restaurants through valid concealed handgun licenses.  Since the Connecticut shootings, Americas's debate on gun control has been strengthened. Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's online Black news leader,  continues its support of constitutional gun control and recognizes Black legislators for fighting against irresponsible gun legislation in Ohio. We reprint the below article on that fight for your reading enjoyment.   Ohio State Rep Bill Patmon (D-Cleveland) Ohio State Rep. John E. Barnes Jr. (D-Cleveland) Ohio State Sen. Charleta Tavares (D-Columbus) Ohio State Sen. Nina Turner (D-Cleveland) Ohio State Sen. Shirley Smith (D-Cleveland) Ohio State Sen. Capri Cafaro (D-Youngstown) Ohio State Sen. Tim Schaffer (R-Lancaster) By Kathy Wray Co
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Black community turns out for forum on the rape and murders of Black women on Cleveland's east side, rapists and killers still at large, County Prosecutor Tim McGinty attends event, read the Fox 8 News article and watch the video here

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By FOX 8 News CLEVELAND – People remain on edge after three women were found  murdered and another brutally attacked  along a stretch of East 93rd Street in southeast Cleveland. “All within one mile of each other,” Cleveland City Council member Zack Reed said at a safety forum Tuesday evening. Reed and other city leaders, along with police, ministers and community activists told a room full of concerned residents they need the public’s help to get the attackers off the street. “If you don’t share the information, then our investigations stall sometimes,” Fourth District Police Commander Deon McCaulley said. Jamella Hasan, 37, was found stabbed 15 times near East 93rd Street and Manor on December 17. “The person that did this to her is still running the streets of our city,” Reed said. Jasmine Trotter, 20, was found murdered in an abandoned home on East 93rd Street on March 24. She was raped and badly beaten. A few days later Christine Malone, 45, was found beaten a
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Louisville Cardinals defeat the Michigan Wolverines 82-76 to win NCAA Championship at the Georgia Dome Monday night for its third all time championship

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) Atlanta GA-Under the leadership of Head Coach Rick Pitino (pictured) the Louisville Cardinal's won the NCAA Championship Monday night, defeating the Michigan Wolverines 82 to 76 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta GA. It was the third all-time championship win in the school's history and former University of Louisville coach Denny Crum, who took his teams to victory in 1980 and 1986, was there for support. Pitino told reporters after the game that his players were the reason for the victory. "Players put coaches in the  hall of fame," said Pitino, who is among seven inductees to be inducted this year to the Basketball Hall of Fame, its officials announced hours before the game. Spike Albrecht went four-for-four and scored 17 points in assisting in giving the Wolverines a comfortable head start, but at half time the Ca
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Cleveland Councilman Zack Reed, who faces a third DUI case, got tricked by his then attorney George Forbes into pleading guilty to a second DUI previously when police did not witness him driving the car and it was parked and he should have instead been charged with the lesser charge of having physical control of a car while intoxicated but not driving it, a charge that does not require jail time as Reed got in his second DUI case because of slick Forbes, Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor has handpicked a retired visiting judge from Willoughby, Ohio for Reed's third DUI case allegedly for Mayor Jackson, Forbes, others, and in violation of a state law that requires that visiting retired judges are to come from within the court's jurisdictional territory, Cleveland Municipal Court judges all recused themselves in both the second and third DUI cases at the urging of Chief Municipal Court Judge Ron Adrine to allegedly set Reed up where former Cleveland Judge Joan Synenburg properly heard Reed's first DUI case, and the claim that city council approves the court budget and that justifies the recusals is bogus where that is not a legitimate conflict and judges must have a presumption of fairness, Activist Kathy Wray Coleman says she was jailed and harassed for Mayor Jackson, Forbes, Call and Post officials, others in part for writing about judicial malfeasance and trying to warn Reed relative to his second DUI case, Coleman says she is still getting harassed and threatened and that Chief Justice O'Connor is corrupt and is harassing her too, Coleman says that Reed should seek to vacate his second DUI plea and conviction because then visiting retired judge Mary Trimboli was not and is not a retired judge as required by the Ohio Constitution

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Democratic Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed Republican Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor  Judge Kathleen Ann Keough, a former Cleveland Municipal Court judge who now sits on the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals . Keough  allegedly won her appellate seat with an endorsement from Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and is accused of fixing cases against Blacks and women in return Cleveland Municpal Court Chief Judge Ron Adrine who handpicks judges for assignments of cases in the court  to allegedly influence case outcomes based upon the judges he selects like Judge Keough, whom he allegedly would handpick for cases to manipulate case outcomes for Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and others International Boxing Promoter Don King, a native of Cleveland, Ohio who publishes the Call and Post Newspaper, a Black weekly distributed in Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio Kathy Wray Coleman, a community activist and former Call and Post rep
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Cleveland Councilman Zack Reed to hold forum on Tuesday, April 9 in response to recent rape and murders of Black women on Cleveland's east side, panelists include Councilwomen Phyllis Cleveland and Mamie Mitchell, 4th District Police Commander Deon McCaulley, representative form Cleveland Rape Crisis Center

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Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed Cleveland Ward 5 Councilwoman Phyllis Cleveland Cleveland Ward 6 Councilwoman Mamie Mitchell Cleveland Fourth District Police Commander Deon McCaulley Jazmine Trotter Christine Malone By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio-Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed will host a forum in response to the recent rape and murders of two Black women on Cleveland's east side and the attempted abduction of a third woman on Tuesday, April 9 at 6 pm at the E Prep Woodland Hills Campus, 929 Crane Ave. near E. 93rd St. and Union Ave. in Cleveland. Panelists include Cleveland Ward 5 Councilwoman Phyllis Cleveland, Cleveland Ward 6 Councilwoman Mamie Mitchell, Fourth District Police Commander Deon McCaulley, and a representative from the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center.  F
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Imperial Women, Black on Black Crime, Survivors/Victims of Tragedy, other community activist groups to hold camp-out on Friday, April 5, 6 pm-6 am, press conference at 7:30 pm at E. 93rd St. and Prince Ave. in Cleveland as to Imperial Avenue Murders- type murders in the wake of the rape and murders of Jazmine Trotter, Christine Malone , and the attempted abduction of a third Black woman

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Jazmine Trotter Christine Malone By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-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 hold a 6 pm to 6 am camp-out at the corner of E. 93rd St and Prince Ave. on Cleveland's east side near the site where Jazmine Trotter, 20, was raped and murdered last week at an abandoned house,  which is a mile from the site  at E. 93 St. and Bessemer Ave. where Christine  Malone, 45, was  raped and murdered, also last week. An abduction attempt last week of of a third  Black woman at E. 66th St. has community activists upset too. Sponsoring groups include Survivors/Victims Of Tragedy, The Imperial Women and  Black on Black Crime Inc. For more information contact Judy Martin at 216-990-0679, Kathy Wray Coleman at 216-659-0473 or Art McKoy at 216-253-4070. Activists will also hold a press conference at 7:30 pm at
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Community activists to protest today, April 4, at 5 pm on Public Square in downtown Cleveland over the 137 bullets shooting deaths by a group of White Cleveland police officers of Malissa Wiliams and Timothy Russell, other victims of violence are encouraged to attend

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Malissa Williams and Timothy Ray Russell By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-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, April 4, at 5 pm on Public Square in downtown Cleveland over fatal police shootings, including the shooting deaths late last year by Cleveland police of unarmed Blacks Malissa Wiliams, 30, and Timothy Russell, 43, both gunned down with a hail of some 137 bullets following a police chase from downtown Cleveland that ended near a middle school in the neighboring city of East Cleveland.  The rally will also address other victims of violence in Greater Cleveland, organizers said. For more information contact Khalid Samad at 216-538-4043 or Griot Y-Von at 216-355-3374. Some 65 police cars were involved in a 28 minute police chase with 13 all non-Black Cleveland police officers participating in the deadl
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