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Community activists want answers for the Cleveland police killing of 21-year-old Thomas Yatsko and say the mainstream media are also allegedly in on the cover-up, activist Khalid Samad and other activists also calling for any surveillance video

07 February 2018

Kathy

Pictured are Cleveland police fatal shooting victim Thomas Yatsko (wearing white sweatshirt) and Cleveland Activist Khalid Samad of Peace in the Hood and the Task Force for Community Mobilization

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CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio -Community activists are demanding answers relative to the shooting death by an off-duty Cleveland police officer last month of 21-year-old Thomas Yatsko, who was Black and killed by Cleveland Police Sgt Dean Graziolly at the Corner Alley bowling alley on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland's University Circle neighborhood, Graziolly working as a part-time security guard where the tragic incident occurred.

Graziolly, who is White and a veteran on the city's largely White police force, is assigned to light duty with pay as the police investigation into the matter continues.

"There is more to this story and the mainstream media and others are trying to cover-up the truth," said longtime community activist Khalid Samad of Peace in the Hood and the Task Force for Community Mobilization.

Racial unrest regarding the police killing of Yatsko, described by family members and friends as level headed and a role model for his younger brothers, continues to mount.

Yatsko's untimely death by police comes as racial policies and policies as to excessive force are changing as the consent decree for Cleveland police reforms gets underway in Cleveland, policy changes under the guidance of federal court watch and the U.S. Department of Justice of which police union officials traditionally oppose.

Samad and community activist Art McKoy of Black on Black Crime Inc.led a protest outside of the bowling alley the night of Jan 20, a well attended vigil that also included Cleveland activists Kathy Wray Coleman of Imperial Women Coalition, Genevieve Mitchell of the Carl Stokes Brigade, other activists, friends, and family members of the shooting victim, including siblings, uncles, and Yatsko's mother and father, his mother, Melissa Yatsko, still upset that it took days for authorities to notify her of her son's killing in spite of nationwide news reports on the controversial killing by police.

The shooting, which follows a host of high profile Cleveland police killings of Black men and boys in recent years, including 12-year-old Tamir Rice, Brandon Jones and rapper Kenneth Smith, happened about 11 p.m Jan. 15 .

According to police reports, a fight broke out inside of the bowling alley on the city's largely Black east side and in a highly trafficked part of town, and Grazioll escorted Yatsko and another young man outside after they were kicked out of the establishment.

Yatsko allegedly came back inside of the bowling alley and Graziolly shot and killed him, claiming he had been allegedly attacked and injured by the small-frame young man.

But Samad said he has been advised that Yatsko, who had no criminal record, went back into the bowling alley to allegedly get his jacket and that law enforcement and city officials are withholding any surveillance video.

At least one witness allegedly heard shots but it is not clear if that alleged witness saw the shooting.

Police said that there were no other reported injuries relative to the incident.

Last Updated on Thursday, 08 February 2018 17:31

Ohio Supreme Court overturns lower court ruling and closes Toledo's only abortion clinic, a 5-2 decision where Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor, a Republican and women's advocate, and former justice William O'Neil

06 February 2018

Kathy

Pictured are Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor, a Republican and former lieutenant governor, and former justice William O'Neil, now a Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, both of whom dissented as to the 5-2 decision by the Ohio's high court on Tuesday that upheld a lower court decision to close Toledo's only abortion clinic

CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, OHIO-The Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a controversial ruling upholding a state order to close Toledo's only abortion clinic, a 5-2 decision with Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor, a Republican and former lieutenant governor, writing the dissenting opinion, Justice William O'Neil, the only Democrat on the court who resigned Jan 26 relative to his bid for governor, joining O'Connor in dissenting.

The anticipated decision comes as women's rights movements have taken steam across the nation and the 44th anniversary of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v Wade that upheld abortion as constitutional is being celebrated in Cleveland, Ohio this week, and elsewhere in the country (Editors' note: CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE FOR THE FEBRUARY 8, 2018 CELEBRATION AT TRINITY CATHEDRAL IN CLEVELAND BY THE FREEDOM OF CHOICE CLEVELAND COALITION OF THE 44TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ROE V WADE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT LANDMARK DECISION THAT MADE ABORTION CONSTITUTIONAL ).

The court's ruling overturns a lower court ruling against the department of health that says the abortion clinic at issue should remain open though it's licence was revoked by the director of the Ohio Department of Health for violating its administrative rules of the governmental agency.

In its decision, the state's high court said the clinic must be closed for violating an applicable administrative rule under the purview of the state's health department but did not entertain whether the rule itself as to restrictions of abortion for failure to comply with its provisions is unconstitutional, the court explicitly ignoring a challenge of the constitutionality of the matter waged by Cleveland's pre-term clinic.

"Because [the department] had authority to revoke Capital Care's license based on the failure to comply with the administrative rule requiring a written transfer agreement with a nearby hospital, it is not necessary to reach those constitutional issues," Justice Terrence O'Donnell wrote in a majority opinion.

At issue is the determination by the Ohio Department of Health to close the clinic for its failure, via the facilitating agency of Capital Care Network, to secure transfer with a hospital that oversees abortions within the 30-day time period required under the health department's administrative rules, Capital Care, and abortion advocates, including Cleveland' pre-term clinic arguing that the administrative rule itself is unconstitutional.

Capital Care and Cleveland's pre-term clinic say the administrative rule is over burdensome and interferes with a woman's constitutional right to an abortion.

In a dissenting opinion, Chief Justice O'Connor wrote that the court should weigh the constitutional issues at hand.

O'Connor said that because hospitals would accept emergency patients transferred regardless of whether there is an agreement in place there is no benefit to requiring transfer agreements.

The all-White seven-member Ohio Supreme Court is now all Republican and majority female, given the departure of Democratic Justice William O'Neil on Jan 26 and the naming by Gov Kasich of his replacement, Republican Justice Mary DeGenaro, a former 7th District Court of Appeals judge out of the Youngstown area.

Last Updated on Thursday, 08 February 2018 19:58

Trump's State of the Union address panned as lies, and 'Blacks were the only people brought to America in chains,' says state Representative Bill Patmon of Cleveland as to Trump's harassment of immigrants whom Trump says use chain migration

31 January 2018

Kathy

Pictured are United States President Donald Trump (wearing blue tie), Ohio State Representative Bill Patmon, Ohio Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (wearing red suit jacket) and Ohio Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief

CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-WASHINGTON, D.C.- United States President Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union address before a joint chamber of congress Tuesday night, his first since taking office last year amid a politically divided country on issues ranging from healthcare to tax reform, scientific research, public education, homeland security and women's and Civil Rights.

While he ignored education, scientific research, Civil Rights, and the growing women's rights and MeToo movements that have drawn nationwide protests at a historic level, the president touched on several of the aforementioned, in addition to other public policy matters, including terrorism, infrastructure reform, and immigration, the latter of which was a focus of his speech, and the impetus, in part, for the temporary government shut down.

His performance as to the nearly hour and a half long address was lackluster, said political pundits, particularly in comparison to the ultra- articulate Barack Obama, Trump's predecessor and the nation's first Black president.

CNN reports that less than half of people who watched it have favorable views, the worst rating of a presidential State of the Union address in 20 years.

Experts and critics quickly took to the airways and to social media, and deemed much of the president's speech orchestrated "lies."

"Together we are building a safe, strong and proud America," said Trump, a Republican and billionaire businessman and reality television star turned president who edged Hillary Clinton, a former secretary of state and the Democratic nominee, in a heated presidential election in 2016.

The president annoyed some Black leaders during his speech when he erroneously took credit for lower unemployment rates in recent years in the African- American and Hispanic communities, which were due largely to policies initiated by the Obama administration.

And he angered them further, and others, when he lobbied against what he calls chain migration, immigrants having green card leeway under the law to bring distant relatives to America with them..

"We were the only people who came to America in chains," said state Rep Bill Patmon (D-10), a Cleveland Democrat and former city councilman who is Black and ran unsuccessfully for mayor last year. "And the unemployment rate in the Black community is still below par."

According to research by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate nationally is at 4.7 % and for Blacks it dropped to 6.8% in December, the lowest since the government began tracking the figure in 1972.

It peaked for Blacks at 16.8% in 1984 and has declined about a percentage point over the last eight years, and after Obama took office in 2009.

The unemployment rate for Latinos is at a low of 4.8 %, which was reached also in 2006 and 2007.

"The unemployment rate in inner cities is as high as 40 percent in some instances, and reducing that by a few points is not nearly enough," said state Representative Patmon. "They need to do more to train and fully employ young Black men in particular."

Trump emphasized his initiative for immigration reform and urged bipartisan support of the Republican sponsored bill, a four- tiered legislative proposal that gives some 1.8 million undocumented immigrants potential relief over a possible 12-year period, and that calls for the securing of the border via 'a wall,' and for vague requirements to gain citizenship such as moral character. The fourth prong of the bill creates more stringent standards for getting green cards.

Four of the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices were in attendance, namely Chief Justice John Robers, Elena Kagan, whom Obama appointed and one of three women on the bench, and Stephen Bryer, and Neil Gorsuch, a Trump appointee who won confirmation amid opposition from liberal groups and most of the congressional Democrats.

The president pushed for infrastructure reform, complimented himself as to congressional passage of the VA Accountability Act, and said jobs have become increasingly more available to Americans since he took office.

And he addressed the opioid crisis, a nationwide epidemic that has dogged Ohio in recent years, among other states.

He said he wants to bridge the partisan divide, an unlikely agenda, whether sincere or not, given his stances on issues such as healthcare, and immigration and tax reform, stances that his critics, largely Democrats, say are racist, and detrimental to the nation's most vulnerable people.

The president's claims of nationwide tax relief across the board since congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in December have been dismissed as disingenuous by congressional Democrats, all of whom, at least in the House of Representatives, voted against the controversial bill that is now federal law.

Opponents of the new tax law, including Democratic Congresswomen Marcia Fudge and Marcy Kaptur, whose constituents include Clevelanders, say poor people, seniors on fixed-incomes, minorities and other disenfranchised groups do not benefit, and that the bill was passed on the backs of the middle class and working poor.

“Despite what Republicans claim, trickle-down economics doesn’t work," said Congresswoman Fudge, one of two Blacks from Ohio in congress, the other of whom is U.S, Rep. Joyce Beatty, a Columbus Democrat

A Warrensville Heights Democrat who represents Ohio's majority Black 11th congressional district, which includes Cleveland. and several of its eastern suburbs of Cuyahoga County, and a largely Black pocket of Akron and staggering suburbs of Summit County, Rep. Fudge said the tax cuts referenced by Trump in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday benefit the wealthy.

"History has proven that tax cuts for the wealthy add to our nation’s deficit, they do not decrease the debt or create jobs," said Fudge.

Republicans control both chambers of congress and the White House.

Last Updated on Thursday, 01 February 2018 19:42

U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, who spoke in Cleveland last year, will critique President Trump's State of the Union Address on BET January 30, Waters, a Los Angeles California, Democrat and the longest serving Black woman in congress

28 January 2018

Kathy

By CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio-U.S Rep. Maxine Waters, a Los Angeles California Democrat and the longest serving Black woman in congress, will critique the State of the Union Address of President Donald Trump, his speech before a joint chamber of congress airing at 9 pm EST on Tuesday, January 30, 2018, and Water critique it directly thereafter, and on the BET national cable television channel.

Below is the archived article of May 2017 by on the visit by the congresswoman to Cleveland for a luncheon sponsored by the Cuyahoga County Democratic Women's Casi's, which is led by its president Cindy Dempsey, and later in the Black community before Black activist, elected officials and others at G-Lancer on the 21 in downtown Cleveland.

Archived article below dated May, 2017 and by Cleveland Urban News.Com Staff Reporter Gwendolyn Piits and Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman

By CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio-U.S Rep. Maxine Waters, a Los Angeles California Democrat and the longest serving Black woman in congress, will critique the State of the Union Address of President Donald Trump, his speech before a joint chamber of congress airing at 9 pm EST on Tuesday, January 30, 2018, and Waters of whom will do her critique directly after after the president does his, and on the BET national cable television channel.

Archived article below dated May, 2017 and by Cleveland Urban News.Com Staff Reporter Gwendolyn Piits and Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman

CLEVELAND, Ohio- California Congresswoman Maxine Waters, a Los Angeles Democrat, has become a thorn in the side of President Donald Trump, and she brought her message against the boastful Republican president to Cleveland last week, speaking on Saturday, May 6, 2017 before a sold out crowd at the Cuyahoga County Democratic Women's Caucus (CDWC) annual brunch and also that day to a group of Black leaders, elected officials and community activists at G- Lancer restaurant in downtown Cleveland. (Editor's Note: Kathy Wray Coleman, who leads the Imperial Women Coalition, and is editor-in chief at

Clevelandurbannews.com and the KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com , introduced Congresswoman Waters at Lancer's to a audience that gave the lawmaker a standing ovation as she entered the room).

The critique by Waters is not official as U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy will give the Democratic response to the presidents State of the Union Address.

Waters' visit to Cleveland May 6, 2017 , which was not her first, is in addition to the campaign by Waters against Trump's policies, a campaign that she has waged on the floor of the United States House of Representatives, and also to major news outlets such as CNN and MSNBC, not to mention to listeners at public forums in other cities, both large and small, across the nation.

At the women's brunch on Saturday, which was held at the Cleveland Botanical Garden, she labeled the billionaire and former real estate mogul who upset Democrat Hillary Clinton in November to take the presidency an outright "liar." And this was before a capacity crowd of Democrats, mainly women, including three female gubernatorial candidates for the 2018 governor's race in Ohio, at least three state representatives, council persons from across the state, members of the Ohio State Board of Education, former congresswoman Mary Rose Oakar, Toledo Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, and Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish.

Columbus Councilwoman Elizabeth Brown, a daughter of U.S. senator Sherrod Brown, and a Democrat like her father, also spoke.

Columbus Councilwoman Brown, like Waters, was recognized by the CDWC for her community service, as were Lana Moresky and Amy Hanauer.

Waters called Trump an enemy to women, the Black community, and the country in general, and she said that the president should be considered for impeachment relative to the fiasco regarding the ongoing investigation around Russian email hacking during the presidential election.

Trump, said Waters, has distanced the nation's allies, and "knows nothing about foreign policy."

The most senior of 12 Black women currently in congress, Waters took issue with the president's efforts to get the GOP dominated congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and she took objection to his stances on medicaid and medicare, as well as his positions on jobs, education and reproductive rights.

The president's anti-Muslim travel ban is ludicrous at best, Waters said.

She shot down nearly every policy Trump has proposed or has pushed through congress since taking office in January,

And Blacks and women, said Waters, are disregarded by Trump because he subordinates Black people and "just does not respect women."

Though Trump was a focus, Waters also spoke on women's issues to the largely White audience, and she urged women to run for office.

"Representative Waters' speech was so moving," said CDWC Chairwoman Cindy Demsey, who presented the congresswoman with her organization's courage award. "Women were actually cheering from their seats."

Even suburbanites at the brunch were motivated, some saying they wish they lived in Cleveland, a majority Black major American city where political action is ongoing, including the women's march in January and the science march held last month.

"I think she [Congresswoman Waters] is just fantastic." said Lakewood Councilman Dan O'Malley. "I wish I lived in Cleveland and I am ready to take action now."

At Lancer's in Cleveland's Black community the tone against Trump was nearly the same, the congresswoman entering the room to a standing ovation from Black leaders, elected officials and community activists, and then taking the microphone and immediately blasting the president as a detriment to Blacks and to the overall welfare of the country.

She said that Trump is not thinking about the middle class and poor people and is about tax breaks for the rich, and "money, money money."

And when she called for Trump to be impeached if an investigation calls for such as she did earlier that day at the women's brunch, the audience broke into applause,

The Black community must vote, she said, and Black elected officials have got to be more assertive like community activists in getting across a message of resistance and empowerment.

The seasoned lawmaker urged more protests in the streets to address what she says is the president's anti-Black and anti-Democratic agenda, and she said that Black people and other disenfranchised groups must "resist, resist, resist."

The Rev. Dr. E. Theophillus Caviness, likely the city's most influential Black preacher, who is senior pastor at Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church and leads the Cleveland chapters of the National Action Network and Southern Christian Leadership Conference, told

Clevelandurbannews.com and the KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com that Blacks leaders in Cleveland support Congresswoman Waters without reservation.

"We support what Congresswoman Waters stands for and we want people nationwide to know that she has our backing here in Cleveland," said Caviness.

The Black crowd at Lancer's included Cleveland city council persons, state representatives, members of the Cleveland NAACP and Black Women's Political Action Committee, political candidates, and community activists.

"She was wonderful," said East Cleveland Board of Education president Una H.R. Kennon of Waters.

Others agreed.

"Congresswoman Waters is fabulous, and we support her," said Cleveland activist Dionne Thomas Carmichael.

State representative Bill Patmon, a Cleveland Democrat, told

Clevelandurbannews.com and the KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com that Waters understands Black people and can be trusted to work in the best interest of the Black community.

"Every Black person in town should have been here to hear her speech," said Patmon.

At both events Waters was escorted by her husband, Sydney Williams, a former United States Ambassador to the Bahamas, and a former Cleveland Browns NFL football player.

Last Updated on Monday, 23 April 2018 03:06

Governor John Kasich names Ohio Supreme Court replacement for Democratic Justice Bill O'Neil, a gubernatorial candidate, making the all White court majority female and all Republican....Blacks have never been elected to the Ohio Supreme Court

26 January 2018

Kathy

Pictured are outgoing Ohio Supreme Court Democratic Justice Bill O'Neil (wearing judicial robe and eye glasses), who will quit the bench this week to run for governor, and newly appointed Ohio Supreme Court Justice Mary DeGenaro, whom term-linited Gov John Kasich appointed this week to replace O'Neil, Kasich and DeGenaro both of whom are Republicans

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief

CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM, COLUMUS, Ohio-The successor to Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill O'Neil, the only Democrat on the Ohio Supreme Court who is set to resign Jan. 26 in his quest this year to become governor, and who, by state law, must resign from the bench since Ohio judges are precluded from seeking nonjudicial office, was named Thursday by term-limited Gov John Kasich, a Republican and former 2016 candidate for United States president.

Kasich chose Youngstown area judge Mary DeGenaro, who set on the 7th District Court of Appeals prior to her appointment this week, to fill the unexpired term left open relative to O'Neil's controversial bid for governor, the Democrat upsetting his own party by quitting four-years into his six-year term, an exit that gave Republicans, through Gov Kasich, an in to turn the court all Republican, which last occurred in 2012.

Kasich's appointment also makes the court majority female during an era where the women's movement is flourishing behind the controversial election of Donald Trump as president, a Republican whose reelection might cringe upon who is governor of Ohio in 2020.

Ohio is a swing state that Trump won in 2018 in a close presidential election against former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee.

Voters have never elected a Black to the Ohio Supreme Court, though some have run for election, including former Ohio congresswoman the late Stephanie Tubbs Jones, retired 8th District Court of Appeals judge Sara J. Harper, former Cleveland Municipal Court judge C. Ellen Connally, also a former president of Cuyahoga County Council, and former 10th District Court of Appeals judge Yvette McGee Brown, who was appointed to the Ohio Supreme Court in 2011 by then governor Ted Strickland, a Democrat, but lost election to the seat the following year. (Editor's note; C Ellen Connally nearly beat former chief justice Thomas Moyer, who died suddenly in 2010 while serving on the bench, as the 2004 Democratic nominee for the Ohio Supreme Court).

Comprised of a seven -member bench whose justices are elected to six-year terms and, per state law, cannot seek reelection once they reach 70 years of age, the state's high court is led by Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor, a former lieutenant governor under former Republican governor Bob Taft.

O'Neil, 70, chose Chantelle Lewis, a Lorain schools elementary principal who is Black and a former East Cleveland City Council member, as his lieutenant governor running mate.

His gubernatorial ambitions, however, are far -fetched, say political pundits, as to winning the Democratic nomination for governor, Richard Chordray, a former Ohio secretary of state and state attorney general, and former director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington, D.C., the front runner, ahead of former congressman Dennis Kucinich, also a former Cleveland mayor, both of them also favored above former state Rep Connie Pillich in the four-way race.

Republicans pursuing the governorship are state attorney general Mike DeWine, a former U.S. senator and front runner for his party's ticket, and lieutenant governor Mary Taylor, the underdog candidate.

O'Neil is under fire for the a recent Facebook post where he brags of allegedly sleeping with some 50 women and says he is tired of escalating news of sexual harassment of women by congressmen and in Hollywood, and elsewhere, now dubbed the MeToo Movement,.

The president of the Ohio State Bar Association, Randall Comer, quickly demanded O'Neil's immediate resignation in response to the fallout, as have state legislators, O'Neil dismissing it as political and saying he has not yet officially declared his candidacy with the board of elections and will resign this week as planned, and that his plans to run for governor have not changed.

The deadline for filing petitions with the board of elections for potential eligibility for placement on the ballot for the May 8 primary election is Feb 7.

The general election is November 6, 2018.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 January 2018 06:11

Women's March Cleveland 2018 video: Cleveland Black women activists speeches, led by activist Kathy Wray Coleman, of the Imperial Women Coalition, who opened as the first speaker at the event, and also led the 7,000 person march.

24 January 2018

Kathy

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