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Updated: Community activists ask state appeals court to order Judge Adrine to arrest Cleveland cop that shot and killed Tamir Rice, and the cop's partner, on Adrine's probable cause finding on their citizen affidavit for criminal charges, and saying that it is required by state law....Adrine says that the rules of criminal procedure require a complaint first....County prosecutor Tim McGinty says he has adopted a policy to shield White cops that kill unarmed Blacks from an arrest leading up to the grand jury process for possible indictments on criminal charges, but others, mainly Black defendants, can be arrested....The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that the criminal rule supersedes state law on matters of procedure....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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Cleveland Municipal Court Presiding and Administrative Judge Ron Adrine Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty T welve-year-old Cleveland police fatal shooting victim Tamir Rice 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 and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) A COMPREHENSIVE INVESTIGATION BY CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS. WE HAVE EXPERIENCED LEGAL REPORTERS CLEVELAND, Ohio- The group of community activists and Black clergy that filed a citizen affidavit earlier this month that resulted in Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Ron Adrine's issuance of a ruling for possible

Community activist and journalist Kathy Wray Coleman is the guest on the Art McKoy radio show on WERE 1490 AM in Cleveland on June 21 at 5:30 pm....The radio show call in number is 216-578-1490, and topics include racism, sexism, police brutality, violence against women, theft of homes of Cuyahoga County residents and judicial and prosecutorial malfeasance against the Black community....Led by activists Art McKoy and Don Bryant, activists will picket University Heights police on July 6 at 6 pm at University Heights City Hall.... By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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Community activist Kathy Wray Coleman (above) speaks to the mainstream media at an anti-police brutality rally in  greater  Cleveland in response to Cleveland police shootings of unarmed Blacks . To Ms Coleman's right is the mother of Malissa William, 30, who was gunned down along with Timothy Russell, 43, in 2012 by 13 non Black  Cleveland  cops  slinging  137 bullets. Only one of the officers, Michael Brelo, was charged, and was acquitted of manslaughter charges in May by Cuayhoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell.   (Photo by Laura Cowan) . From the Metro Desk of  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog, Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  Community activist and WERE 1490 AM radio host Art McKoy CLEVELAND, Ohio -Greater Cleveland community activist and loc

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National NAACP President Cornell William Brooks gives letter to Cleveland Urban News.Com on the mass murder of nine Black parishioners in Charleston, South Carolina by White suspect Dylann Roof.....Brooks calls for international prayer for the victims and their families....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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National NAACP President Cornell William Brooks 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 and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) A LETTER BELOW TO CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS,  FROM NATIONAL NAACP PRESIDENT CORNELL WILLIAM BROOKS ON THE MASS MURDER OF NINE  AFRICAN-AMERICA PARISHIONERS ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 AT EMANUEL METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA Dear Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor Kathy Wray Coleman, You've likely heard the news of the nine parishioners were  murdered last night while attending Bible study at the historic Emanuel Afri

Democrat Annette Blackwell vies for Maple Heights, Ohio mayor, Blackwell is Black and female....She tells Cleveland Urban News.Com that the city is a great city that needs a morale boost, and fiscal leadership.... The activists group the Carl Stokes Brigade gives her an early endorsement, says she is grassroots, and qualified to lead the largely Black Cleveland suburb.....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news www.clevelandurbannews.com

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Annette Blackwell 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 and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) MAPLE HEIGHTS, Ohio- Annette M. Blackwell, a Democrat and 19- year resident of Maple Heights, a Cleveland suburb of some 23,000 people that is heavily Democratic and roughly  68 percent Black, is seeking the office of mayor this year, and is running  in the upcoming non-partisan September 8 primary election.   CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE FACEBOOK PAGE OF ANNETTE BLACKWELL FOR MAYOR   and  CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE WEBSITE OF ANNETTE BLACKWELL FOR MAYOR Blackwell said the city needs  a morale boost, and that voting fo

The Cleveland Cavaliers lose the 2015 NBA championship title to the Golden State Warriors in game six of the NBA Finals....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news www.clevelandurbannews.com

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The Golden State Warriors celebrate after winning the 2015 NBA championship title Tuesday night, June 16 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo compliments of Getty Images) 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 and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Cleveland Cavaliers lost game six Tuesday night at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, 105-97, and handed the 2015 NBA championship title to the Golden State Warriors, and bringing the Warriors their fourth NBA title, and the first in a forty-year drought.  Cavaliers head coach David Blatt was gracious in defeat. &quo

Tamir Rice news: Cleveland Judge Ron Adrine recommends that the city of Cleveland or county prosecutor McGinty seek possible murder and other charges of police in the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, though only a county grand jury can officially bring felonies against people in Ohio.... Black clergy and community activists initiated the action by filing an affidavit.... Rice family attorney Walter Madison tells Cleveland Urban News.Com that Rice did not grab for his toy gun when police shot him as the mainstream media have claimed.....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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Cleveland Municipal Court Presiding and Administrative Judge Ron Adrine By   Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. (Kathy Wray Coleman is a 22-year investigative and political journalist and legal reporter who trained for 17 years under five different editors at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's most prominent Black press)   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) T welve-year-old Cleveland police fatal shooting victim Tamir Rice CLEVELAND, Ohio- Following the filing of an affidavit earlier this month under Ohio state law by a group of greater Cleveland community activists and Black clergy, Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Ron Adrine yesterday recommended that either the prosecutor for the city of Cleveland, via the filing of a complaint,  or Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty