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CLEVELAND, Ohio-Greater Cleveland community activists groups that fought for diversity in the leadership ranks of the Cleveland Police Department and have protested around the epidemic of rape and murder against women and other crimes as well as the gunning done in November 2012 of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell by 13 White police officers, will have a press conference and discussion on the appointment on Monday by Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson of new Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams, who is Black. The press conference is at 4:45 pm on Wednesday, February 12, 2014 at the Chateau Mansion  at 13124 Euclid Avenue. Contact persons are Khalid Samad of Peace in the Hood at 216-538-4043, Kathy Wray Coleman of the Imperial Women Activists Group at 216-659-0473 and Black on Black Crime Founder Art McKoy at 216-253-4070.

Williams and Russell were killed by police shooting a hail of 137 bullets following a police car chase that began in downtown Cleveland and ended in neighboring East Cleveland. Whether any state criminal indictments will come down will likely depends on the outcome of a pending Cuyahoga County Grand Jury process.

"We will present our positions on the new police chief and what we expect of him," said Samad, who said that he is glad that the majority Black city of Cleveland now has a Black police chief.

Coleman said that community activists want a dialogue with the new police chief and an explanation of what he will do differently to minimize crime, excessive police force and the unprecedented rape and murders of greater Cleveland women across racial lines, among other concerns.

Speakers include Samad, McKoy, Coleman, Former Plain Dealer and Call and Post Reporter Dick Peery, East Cleveland City Councilman Nate Martin, family members of victims of violence and some victims themselves, and Community Activists Marva Patterson, Roz McAllister, Rev Pamela Pinkney Butts, Christine Wilson, Gilda Malone, Genevieve Mitchell, Bill Swain, Ernest Smith, and Valerie and Dr. Stuart Robinson.

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