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U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown of Cleveland endorses Kathleen Clyde for Ohio secretary of state, Clyde the only Democrat in the race...Senator Brown said that "Kathleen Clyde is a leader who will fight back against extreme gerrymandering"

26 February 2018

Kathy

Pictured are United States Senator
Sherrod Brown, a Cleveland Democrat,
and state Representative Kathleen Clyde,
whom Brown endorsed Monday relative to
her bid for Ohio secretary of state
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CLEVELANDURBANNEW.COM-COLUMBUS, Ohio-Today, Ohio’s senior U.S. senator and former Ohio secretary of state Sherrod Brown announced his endorsement of state Rep. Kathleen Clyde (D-Kent) relative to her campaign this year for Ohio secretary of state.

Clyde currently represents the 75th Ohio House district in Portage County and is the only Democrat running for secretary of state.

“As a former Secretary of State of Ohio, I’m proud to endorse Kathleen Clyde,” said Brown. “Kathleen Clyde is a leader who will fight back against extreme gerrymandering, foreign cybersecurity threats, and illegal voter purging."
A Cleveland Democrat, Brown added that "I’ve never met someone more committed to ensuring that Ohio’s democracy remains strong in the face of so many obstacles. We need Kathleen as our next secretary of state.”

Clyde said she is elated by the endorsement from such a distinguished United States senator who, throughout his career, and particularly in Washington, has fought for the nation's most vulnerable.
“Sherrod Brown is a voting rights champion and his commitment to fighting for Ohio’s working families is unparalleled," said state Rep. Clyde. “I’m thrilled to earn Sherrod’s endorsement and look forward to working with him as Ohio’s next secretary of state to strengthen Ohio’s middle class and safeguard our elections.”.
While serving in the state legislature and throughout her career, Clyde has been a strong
advocate for redistricting reform and voting rights.
The state lawmaker has also fought against Senate Bill 5 and other attacks on working families.
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Last Updated on Monday, 26 February 2018 21:36

Imperial Women Coalition supports jury's recommendation for death for 14-year-old Alianna DeFreeze's murderer, activist Kathy Wray Coleman saying that convicted teen rapist and murderer Christopher Whitaker must be held accountable for his crimes

24 February 2018

Kathy

Pictured are 14-year-old Alianna DeFreeze of Cleveland, and her killer, 45-year-old Christopher Whitaker

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CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio-A Cuyahoga County jury on Friday recommended death for convicted murderer and teen rapist Christopher Whitaker, the sex offender who kidnapped, raped and dismembered 7th grader Alianna DeFreeze at an abandoned home in January of last year in the Kinsman neighborhood on Cleveland's largely Black east side.

Two weeks ago, that same 12-member jury convicted the 45-year-old Whitaker on all counts, including aggravated murder, rape and kidnapping.

Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Carolyn Friedland, per state law, will decide, following a sentencing hearing on March 5, whether to accept the jury's recommendation or to sentenced Whitaker to life in prison.

Whitaker, of Cleveland, confessed to the crimes, saying he was high on cocaine and acting out the morning of the gruesome murder. And he has apologized to the victim's family.

But Whitaker and his lawyers do not want him put to death, the height of punishment in the state of Ohio for aggravated murder.

Cleveland community activist organizers want Whitaker, who literally dismembered Alianna's body with lawn tools, including a saw, punished to the hilt under state law, and they are upset.

"We are pleased with the jury's verdict as well as its recommendation for the death penalty for Mr. Whitaker," said community activist Kathy Wray Coleman of Cleveland, who leads the Imperial Women Coalition, a women's and children's rights group founded relative to heightened rape and murders of Black women and girls and other women and girls in Cleveland since 2009.

Coleman said that Whitaker "must be held accountable for his crimes against this young and innocent Black girl that he kidnapped, raped, tortured and dismembered and we hope he rots in hell."

The 14-year-old Black girl, whose dismembered body was found in January 2017 by police in an abandoned home at the the 9400 block of Fullmer Avenue, was snatched by Whitaker in the 3400 block of East 149th Street as she was getting off the RTA bus headed to school.

Alianna never arrived at school, and her mother, notified some 10 hours later, filed a missing person's report.

The child's maimed body was identified by the Cuyahoga County medical examiner's office through dental records.

Whitaker used his sex offender's address of South Euclid, Ohio but lived in Cleveland, investigators said. He served time in prison for sexual battery, among other convictions, and is in jail held on a $3 million bond.

DNA linked Whitaker to the crime.

Last Updated on Sunday, 25 February 2018 04:22

Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidates Dennis Kucinich and Richard Chordray differ on bill to ban assault weapons introduced in the the Ohio Senate this week that makes it a criminal offense to own assault weapons

22 February 2018

Kathy

Pictured are Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidates Richard Chordray (wearing blue shirt) and Dennis Kucinich

CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-Cleveland, Ohio-Yesterday, Democratic members of the Ohio Senate introduced a bill that would outlaw assault weapons in Ohio and make it a criminal offense to own or acquire weapons like those used in the mass slaying at a high school in Parkland, Florida last week and in dozens of other similar fatal shootings across the country.

Whether the bill ever becomes law remains to be seen, given that both chambers of the Ohio state legislature, the Ohio Senate and Ohio House of Representatives, are controlled by Republicans.

The proposed legislative measure comes on the heels of a rally and press conference on Monday in Cleveland spearheaded by Democratic candidate for governor Dennis Kucinich, and his running mate, Akron Councilwoman Tara Samples, to demand that assault weapons are banned statewide by the state legislature.

A former Cleveland mayor and former congressman who ran unsuccessfully for president in 2004 and 2008, Kucinich faces Richard Chordray, a former state attorney general and state treasurer and consumer watchdog who recently quit his job in Washington, D.C relative to his bid for governor, state Sen. Joe Schiavoni (D-33), former state representative Connie Pillich, and former Ohio Supreme Court justice Bill O'Neil in a five-way race for the Democratic nomination for governor.

If the bill were enacted, Ohio would become the sixth state to outlaw assault weapons.

The Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence has reported that five states now ban assault weapons: California, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts and New Jersey.

The Democratic candidates for governor, however, are on very different sides of this politically, socially, and emotionally charged public safety issue.

So far, Kucinich and Samples have enlisted the support of more than 2, 000 volunteers to lobby their city councils and boards of educations to pass resolutions supporting state legislation to ban assault weapons.

Exactly one year ago yesterday, the 4th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals upheld the state of Maryland’s ban on 45 different types of assault weapons and on a 10-round limit on gun magazines.

“Put simply, we have no power to extend second amendment protections to weapons of war,” wrote Judge Robert King for the majority in that decision.

Only a few months earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a case that which would have overturned that Maryland ban.

"Ohio attorney general and candidate for governor who led the legal battle in Ohio to invalidate a Cleveland law banning assault weapons and make it impossible for any other city to enact a similar law apparently remains opposed to such bans," said Kucinich.

" He talked about appointing a gun violence prevention czar and promoting practical, common sense measures to address gun violence, [but at] no point did he express support for a ban on the deadly, military style assault weapons," he said.

Kucinich said that Chordray's past pro-gun positions earned him the endorsement, support, and an 'A' rating from the National Rifle Association, the Buckeye Firearms Association, and similar groups.

"Cordray’s refusal to support an assault weapons ban in Ohio puts him on the wrong side of recent federal court decisions, and the wrong side of all Ohioans who want to see these weapons off the streets," said Kucinich.

Last Updated on Saturday, 24 February 2018 18:16

Dennis Kucinich and Councilwoman Tara Samples host Cleveland rally to ban assault weapons where Cleveland Councilman Kevin Conwell says guns are easier to get than jobs in his neighborhood, a rally with gun control advocates and community activists

20 February 2018

Kathy

Pictured are Ohio candidate for governor Dennis Kucinich (wearing bow tie) and his running mate for lieutenant governore, Akron Councilwoman Tara Mosley Samples, and Cleve;and Wward 9 Councilman Kevin Conwell

CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cleveland Ward 9 Councilman Kevin Conwell, South Euclid Councilman Marty Gelfand, community activists, mothers fed up with gun violence, local clergy, and a host of others joined Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dennis Kucinich and his running mate for lieutenant governor, Akron Councilwoman Tara Samples, for a rally in an effort to ban assault weapons statewide at the Double Tree by Hilton Hotel in downtown Cleveland Monday afternoon, an event that was relocated from the steps of Cleveland City Hall due to imminent rain.

The mainstream media were there in droves and activists in attendance include Kathy Wray Coleman, Yvonka Hall, Rico Dancy and Nina McLellan.

"Those who have opened the door for these assault weapons to flood our cities and to flood our state and to be freely available in America are about to have an accounting, a day of reckoning themselves," said Kucinich.

Kucinich and Samples want the state legislature to pass legislation to ban assault rifles statewide, which comes on the heels of the shooting deaths of 17 people Wednesday by a gunman in Parkland, Florida.

They introduced a resolution to that affect during a press conference at Monday's rally.

"Today, Dennis and I take an aggressive stand demanding that assault weapons be banned," said Samples, who is Black.

"This is not a request," said Samples. "It is a demand for action."

Samples cited statistics on gun violence nationwide of 271 mass shootings in 2014, 323 in 2015, 383 in 2016, and 317 just last year.

Councilman Conwell, one of 17 members of Cleveland City Council and the former chair of council's safety committee, said guns are often easier to obtain than viable employment,

And he vowed to fight with Kucinich and Samples for public policy changes to seek to get guns off the streets and out of the hands of irresponsible persons..

"You can get guns before you can get jobs in my neighborhood," said Conwell, one of eight Black east side Cleveland councilmen.

Elizabeth Kuncinich. the wife of Dennis Kucinich, a former Cleveland mayor and former congressman, said Ohio can take legislative action regarding gun control, independent of its respective cities, villages and townships.

"It is not legal for cities to ban assault weapons but it is legal for states to ban assault weapons."

In the midst of the Florida shooting that has rocked the country and has heightened calls by policy makers and gun control advocates to curb gun violence, Ohio Gov John Kasich, a Republican who, is term- limited and leaves office next January, has lobbied President Trump and congressional leaders to take a harsher stance on guns.

Asked by Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com his response to a proposal by some teachers unions that calls for guns in classrooms for every teacher and what grade he would give Kasich on gun control, Kucinich said he did not want to make the issue political or partisan and that all stakeholders must come together to seek to eradicate the growing problem of gun violence.

But he also said that "those who have been in public life and have taken positions that have opened the door to this moment of tragedy will be held accountable."

Kucinich faces Richard Chordray, a former state attorney general and state treasurer and consumer watchdog who recently quit his job in Washington, D.C relative to his bid for governor, state Sen. Joe Schiavoni (D-33), former state representative Connie Pillich, and former Ohio Supreme Court justice Bill O'Neil in a five-way race for the Democratic nomination for governor.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 February 2018 23:39

Ohio candidate for governor Dennis Kucinich and his running mate Akron Councilwoman Tara Samples call for the grand jury process to be abolished in Ohio as they unveil their criminal justice platform in Cleveland along side of community activists

17 February 2018

Kathy

Pictured are Ohio candidate for governor Dennis Kucinich and his running mate for lieutenant governore, Akron Councilwoman Tara Mosley Samples

CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dennis Kucinich and his running mate for lieutenant governor, Akron Councilwoman Tara Samples, joined community members and local activists in Cleveland on Thursday in the historic Glenville neighborhood at East 105th Street and St. Clair Avenue on the city's largely Black east side to unveil their platform for criminal justice reform.

Asked by Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com his position on the grand jury process in Ohio, Kucinich, a former Cleveland mayor and former congressman who twice ran unsuccessfully for president in 2004 and 2008, said "it should be abolished."

The gubernatorial hopeful and Samples, also a progressive who introduced U.S. Sen Bernie Sanders when he visited Akron, took issue with heightened and excessive prison sentences in Cuyahoga County and elsewhere that disproportionately target young Black men, some of whom are juveniles tried unnecessarily as adults.

"The criminal justice system in Ohio, as well as nationally, has a shameful record of disproportionately targeting, prosecuting, jailing and otherwise discriminating against the African-American and Latino communities," both Kucinich and Samples said while distributing their proposal for criminal justice reform they say they will seek to implement if Kuncinich wins.

A former stenographer and bailiff, Samples, who is Black, said Black men in particular have been dealt a raw deal by the criminal justice center since the beginning of time.

"I saw this first hand when I was a bailiff," said Samples.

Other aspects of their criminal justice reform proposal include addressing the opioid crisis and racial discrimination, ending the prison-industrial complex, and putting more emphasis on rehabilitation and mental health issues relative to defendants.

The well-crafted proposal, which reveals an understanding by Kucinich and Samples of intrinsic issues impacting the legal system nationwide regarding the disenfranchisement of poor people and people of color, also speaks of de-emphasizing deadly force by police, speedy release for defendants in jail or prison on low-level marijuana convictions, curbing the abuse of power by judges, prosecutors and law enforcement officials, and recognizing and rooting out institutional racism.

Frances Caldwell, a Glenville resident and executive director of the Cleveland African-American Museum, said she is pleased that Kucinich is taking on the legal system and that she wished "current Governor John Kasich had done more on the issue."

A Republican and 2016 unsuccessfully candidate for the Republican nomination for president, Kasich, in his second term and term-limited, leaves office next January.

The Rev Jaland Finney, associate minister at Second Baptist Church in Akron and an ex-offender, said it is difficult for people, Black men in particular, to find jobs when they get out of prison after serving time for felony convictions.

"They told me to apply for jobs seven years later when I returned home from prison," said Finney, a clergy leader who attended the press conference on Thursday in Cleveland. "They must do a better job of providing employment opportunities for ex-offenders, particularly for Black people who regularly face discrimination by potential employers."

To become governor, Kucinich must first win the May 8 Democratic primary against front-runner Richard Chordray, state Sen. Joe Schiavoni (D-33), former state representative Connie Pillich, and former Ohio Supreme Court justice Bill O'Neil in a five-way race for the Democratic nomination for governor. And if he proceeds to the general election of Nov. 6, he would likely run against Mike DeWine, the state's attorney general and a former U.S. Senator facing underdog candidate Lt Gov Mary Taylor for the Republican nomination for governor.

Last Updated on Monday, 19 February 2018 23:07

Cleveland teen Alianna DeFreeze's murderer prepares for death penalty phase as community activists call for punishment to the fullest extent of the law for Christopher Whitaker

14 February 2018

Kathy

Pictured are 14-year-old Alianna DeFreeze of Cleveland, and her killer, 45-year-old Christopher Whitaker, who faces the death penalty phase after a Cuyahoga County grand jury on Tuesday convicted him of rape, kidnapping, aggravated murder and other crimes against the Black teen whose body was dismembered

CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio-A Cuyahoga County jury on Tuesday issued a guilty-on-all-charges verdict in the capital murder trial of Christopher Whitaker, the sex offender who kidnapped, raped and dismembered 7th grader Alianna DeFreeze at an abandoned home in January of last year in the Kinsman neighborhood on Cleveland's largely Black east side.

Jurors convicted the 45-year-old Whitaker on all counts, including aggravated murder, rape and kidnapping.

The child rapist and murderer now faces the death penalty phase and though he confessed saying he was on high cocaine and acting out the morning of the gruesome crime, Whitaker and his lawyers do not want him put to death, the height of punishment in the state of Ohio for aggravated murder, the presiding judge in the case of whom decides whether to spare his life following recommendation from the same jury that convicted him.

The bailiff for Common Pleas Judge Carolyn Friedland told Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com Tuesday afternoon that the death penalty phase will begin at 9 am Feb 21 at the Justice Center in Cleveland, which is also docked on the court's public records website.

"I want justice for the murder of my daughter," said Donnesha Cooper, Alianna's mother when speaking before some 7,000 people at the second annual women's march in last month on Public Square in downtown Cleveland.

Cleveland community activist organizers want Whitaker who literally dismembered Alianna's body with lawn tools, including a saw, punished to the hilt under state law, and they are upset.

"We want Christopher Whitaker punished to the fullest extent of the law," said community activist Kathy Wray Coleman of Cleveland, who leads the Imperial Women Coalition, a women's and children's rights group founded relative to heightened rape and murders of Black women and girls and other women and girls in Cleveland since 2009. "And city officials and politicians need to stop pretending that this heightened violence against women and girls, Black and poor women in particular, is not an epidemic in this city and this county or we cannot work effectively to seek to eradicate this growing problem.

Activist Khalid Samad of Peace in the Hood could hardly be contained in words and said he wants Whitaker, a coward, held accountable.

"What this man did to the child is horrific," said an upset Samad. "We have no mercy on him."

The 14-year-old Black girl, whose dismembered body was found in January 2017 by police in an abandoned home at the the 9400 block of Fullmer Avenue in the Kinsman neighborhood on the city's majority Black east side, was snatched by Whitaker in the 3400 block of East 149th Street as she was getting off the RTA bus headed to school.

Alianna never arrived at school, and her mother, notified some 10 hours later, filed a missing person's report.

The child's maimed body was identified by the Cuyahoga County medical examiner's office through dental records.

Whitaker used his sex offender's address of South Euclid, Ohio but lived in Cleveland, investigators said. He served time in prison for sexual battery, among other convictions and is in jail held on a $3 million bond.

DNA linked Whitaker to the crime.

Cleveland recorded 130 homicides in 2017, down from 168 homicides in 2016, the deadliest year in decades and up 13 percent that year from 2015, though neighboring suburbs also saw increases, mainly due, like Cleveland, to heroin and opiate overdoses on the rise.

"As a community we must do all we can to work together for the safety and security of our children," said 11th congressional district congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge shortly after the child's murder. "I thank those working to solve unanswered questions surrounding Alianna's death, and pray for peace, closure and healing."

Alianna is one of more than a half a dozen Black females found dead since 2012 on the city's east side near East 93rd and Kinsman Avenue that have caught the attention of the community and the media, some four women ranging in ages from 20 to 43-year-old, three Black and one White, whose remains were discovered in various places since 2013, at least one in abandoned home within a two-mile radius beginning at East 93rd Street and Bessemer Avenue and transcending to Harvard Avenue.

Police have no leads relative to the murders of the four East 93rd Street women, namely Jasmine Trotter, 20, Ashley Leszyeski, 21 and White, Jamella Hasan, 37, and Christine Malone 43, who left behind eight grown children.

Anthony Sowell, who murdered 11 women and raped three other Black women at his since demolished home on Imperial Avenue on the city's east side between 2008 and 2009 and East Cleveland serial killer Michael Madison, who murdered three young Black women in 2013, both sit on death row.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 March 2018 18:00

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