UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio-A greater Cleveland community activist who led a meeting on May 13 with Cleveland NAACP officials and regional representatives from Chicago and Detroit for U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch around police brutality, racial unrest and the upcoming Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo manslaughter verdict was allegedly stalked two days later by five White University Heights police officers pointing guns and rifles. And one of the officers allegedly called the Black woman a "nigger."  The victim said, in fact, that the cop[ said "get that nigger."(Editor's note: Brelo is on trial before Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell and faces two counts of voluntary manslaughter for his role in gunning down unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell following a high speed car chase in 2012. He fired 49 of 137 bullets fired by 13 non-Black Cleveland cops, the other 12 of which were not charged).

Kathy Wray Coleman, a longtime community activist who leads the Imperial Women Coalition, and who trained for 17 years as a writer with the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's most prominent Black press, and now edits Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's largest digital Black newspaper, said they came to kill her, she believes, and are angry because she got away from them.

"I feared for my life that day and still do, and the harassment by racist White cops is right before the upcoming Brelo verdict for a reason" said Coleman "When an entourage of White policemen come on the property of a reporter and a Black Lives Matter activist unannounced, without a warrant, and  slinging guns and rifles, it is serious, and dangerous."

Coleman said that Cleveland News Channel 5, led by news director Jeff Harris, who is White, and the Plain Dealer, Ohio's largest newspaper, are defaming her over the incident because she is Black and female, and a community activist and reporter that fights against injustices against the Black community.

Lynch's out-of-state U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) representatives told activists at the meeting that retaliation for meeting with them "is criminal."

Coleman said that the day of the bizarre police harassment incident, Friday, May 15, she and two men were repairing her home on Silsby Road in University Heights, a Cleveland suburb, relative to a previous fire of September 2013. She was sweeping and they were scrapping paint and taking down wallpaper.(

Coleman said that prior to this most recent harassment incident, and specifically in November of last year, University Heights police and JPMorgan Chase Bank, per the urging of Brelo trial judge John O'Donnell, whom Coleman says has stalked her since 2003, broke into her University Heights home and garage without a court order or eviction, and stole all her belongings,  including furniture and a $20,000 collector's car. They  have the property hidden for harassment purposes, said Coleman, who added that Chase has burglarized her home on at least seven occasions with the support of University Heights police, the county prosecutor's office, and others.

The most recent harassment at her home, said Coleman, is a violation of privacy, criminal tresspass and a 4th Amendment illegal search and seizure, among other illegalities, and courts of law must determine abandoned homes to keep police from intruding in bad faith. In actuality, Coleman says she was lured to the home to fix it up by city officials, and then stalked at gunpoint as an intimidation tactic for exposing public corruption and police murders of unarmed Blacks, among other matters.

Her contractor, Robert Saffold, the stepfather of 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, was supposed to meet her at the home that afternoon. Instead, said Coleman, the five White cops came storming down the driveway pointing rifles and guns, one making racial epithets.

Coleman said that she got in her car and left, and that the angry White cops at issue acted as though they were going to shoot her dead on the spot.

Thereafter, the cops allegedly surrounded the house like a television movie and demanded that the two handy men come out with their hands up. They were then patted down, all while police put rifles and guns in their faces. One of the harassed men, both of them of whom are Black, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the officers asked if they were members of the Black nationalist group or the Black panthers, and said that if Coleman had any heart she would have stayed to protect them from police harassment.

Coleman called the men from her cell phone after she got to safety and police got on the phone and demanded papers that Saffold, as her contractor,  had asked Coleman to bring to the home that day, though he did not show at the home for the meeting. Coleman told police that activists had been notified to please let the men go and they were later released. Police said they brought five police officers with rifles and guns onto the property because it was abandoned, even though no court of law deemed the property abandoned  and the $75,000 insurance check on the fire claim is in Coleman's name, and the name of JPMorgan Chase Bank. Moreover, they have been watching repairs go on at the house, including the neighbors,  for the past couple of weeks.

Coleman said that she has been repeatedly harassed for articles and activism on racism, police brutality, public corruption, violence against women, politics,  and foreclosure fraud by University Heights officials, judges, county officials and others. This includes leading rallies around Cleveland police fatal victims Tamir Rice and  Tanisha Anderson, Ariel Castro victims Michelle Knight, Gina DeJesus and Amanda Berry, the 11 victims of Cleveland serial killer Anthony Sowell, and the 137 bullets Williams-Russell shooting. Also, said Coleman, she has led protests in Shaker Heights, also a Cleveland suburb, as to alleged housing discrimination against Blacks , and has been harassed for that too, among other  harassment for other community ventures.

Pictured are Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson (wearing beard and eye glasses), Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John P. O'Donnell (in sky blue tie), Cleveland Police Patrolman Michael Brelo (in blue shirt), Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty (in red-pink tie with polka dots), Community activistArt McKoy ( in red, black and green turban), 137 shots unarmed Cleveland police fatal shooting victim Malissa Williams (in white shirt), and 137 shots unarmed Cleveland police fatal shooting victim Timothy Russell ( in dark blue sweatshirt).

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.

Kathy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 22- year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper.

(www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com).

CLEVELAND, Ohio- Greater Cleveland community activists groups, led by community activist Art McKoy, will rally at 10 am on Monday, May 18 at the Cuyahoga County Justice Center on Lakeside Avenue in downtown Cleveland to demand convictions by Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell of  Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo.  (Editor's note: Brelo is on trial before O'Donnell and faces two counts of voluntary manslaughter for his role in gunning down unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell following a high speed car chase in 2012. Closing arguments have concluded. Brelo fired 49 of 137 bullets fired by 13 non-Black Cleveland cops, the other 12 of which were not charged. O'Donnell, a White controversial judge and a documented crook who has stolen homes from county residents for mortgage companies and banks such as JPMorgan Chase Bank and the county Democratic party for a fourth of the value,  is hearing the case in lieu of a jury per Brelo's request. The corrupt judge said last week that his decision could come as early as Tuesday morning in the case).

"We do not trust Judge O'Donnell, we do not trust the justice system, and we do not trust Black preachers calling for calm," said McKoy. "We do not want violence or destruction of property, but we do not call for calm."

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and area Black preachers, led by the Rev. Larry Harris of the United Pastors in Mission, are calling for calm in the case, one prosecuted by anxious county prosecutor Tim McGinty.

The only patrolman charged in the Williams-Russell shooting was Brelo.

(www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com)

CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Cleveland Cavaliers routed the Chicago Bulls 94-73 Thursday night in round two of the NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals, winning the best of seven series four games to the Bull's  two.

It was not a surprise that the Cavaliers would win game six and advance to the Eastern Conference Finals to play the Atlanta Hawks, but what was a surprise is how they did it. The teams leading scorer in the previous nine playoff games this season was either LeBron James or Kyrie Irving, with James taking the honors seven times. Reserve point guard Matthew Dellavedova's total  point production in the previous five games against Chicago in this series was 31 points. That's an average of six points per game for Dellavedova.

So when Dellavedova scored a team leading 19 points to help close out the Bulls it was more of a shock than a surprise. Not only did Dellavedova have an impressive performance, but there were other unsung heroes who stepped up to help the Cavaliers win game six to send the Bulls home for the season.

All season the headliners for this Cavalier team were All Stars Kevin Love, Irving, and James. They did most of the heavy lifting, especially in the scoring column. But with Love out for the season  after sustaining a shoulder injury and both James and Irving struggling with injuries of their own, other players needed to step up. They now were to provide whatever was needed to win, even though they were not known to have the skill sets to do the job.  After playing just 12  minutes, Irving went down to the floor early in the second quarter, re-injuring his left knee when he stepped on teammate Tristan Thompson's foot. As Irving  limped  to the locker room Cavalier head coach David Blatt had to wonder how he could replace Irving's production.

Pictured are  Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John P. O'Donnell (in sky blue tie), Cleveland Police Patrolman Michael Brelo (in blue shirt), 137 shots unarmed Cleveland police fatal shooting victim Malissa Williams (in white shirt), and 137 shots unarmed Cleveland police fatal shooting victim Timothy Russell ( in dark blue sweatshirt).

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.

Kathy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 22- year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper.

(www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com).

CLEVELAND, Ohio- Though the defense has rested in the officer Michael Brelo manslaughter case and oral arguments were held on May 5, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell, a documented thief who stole homes from country residents via fake foreclosures without plaintiffs in an effort to hand them to JPMorgan Chase Bank and other banks and mortgage companies for a fourth of the value, refuses to say when he will issue a verdict. (Editor's note: The theft happened in various venues, including in University Heights, and  with the help of city and county  official, the sheriff's office, and police, public records reveal. Sources say that O'Donnell himself has allegedly been protected from prosecution because he is White and male, and a judge. O'Donnell knew he had no authority or jurisdiction to preside over fake foreclosure cases with no plaintiffs, but did so anyway as a thief who believes he is above the law, sources say. The victims had paid on the homes for some nine years,  and had not refinanced, and had paid on their mortgages as required by law, data show. Complaints to the Cleveland NAACP were met with further harassment, victims said).

"Judge O'Donnell is a documented thief and may have some other serious issues," said a greater Cleveland community activist on condition of anonymity. "We call for an immediate mental examination."

Brelo is facing two counts of voluntary manslaughter per Brelo's request.

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief.

Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.

(www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com)CLEVELAND, Ohio- Greater Cleveland community activists groups, led by Puncture the Silence and Revolution Books, will rally at 3:30 pm on Thursday, May 14 at the Cuyahoga County Justice Center on Lakeside Avenue in downtown Cleveland to demand state and federal criminal charges in the police killings of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, Tanisha Anderson, and  12 of 13 non- Black cops that gunned down unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell in 2012.

"We want criminal prosecutions for Tamir, Tanisha, and the 12 police officers that killed Tim and Malissa and have not yet been prosecuted," said longtime community activist Bill Swain.

Rice was gunned down by police last November for sporting a toy gun at a public park on the city's west side, and Anderson, a bi-polar-woman who like Rice was Black, was slammed to the sidewalk and killed last year at her home on the city's east side while in police custody.

The 12 cops at issue were among 13-non Black Cleveland cops who gunned down unarmed Williams, 30, and Timothy Russell, 43, following a high speed car chase in 2012 that began in downtown Cleveland and ended in a middle school parking lot in neighboring East Cleveland. No gun was found at the deadly and unprecedented scene that has caused racial unrest in Cleveland, a largely Black major American city, and in East Cleveland, an impoverished Black Cleveland suburb on the verge of collapse.

The only patrolman charged in the Williams-Russell shooting was Michael Brelo, who is on trial now before common pleas judge John O'Donnell, and faces two counts of voluntary manslaughter for firing 49 of the 137 shots.

Activists want the other 12 police officers charged criminally and have said that regardless, Brelo must be convicted since he participated in the shooting too. The issue, they say, is not solely how many shots were fired by Brelo, but that all 13 are guilty as sin, and for, in the least, criminally negligent behavior that rises to the level of manslaughter.

Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty and Ohio Attorney General Mike Dewine, both of whom are White, have repeatedly lobbied in support of the 12 officers that escaped prosecution, and both McGinty and DeWine were endorsed by local and state police unions.