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Funeral services held for slain Cleveland police officer James Skernivitz and Police Chief Calvin Williams was among the speakers....The city of Cleveland remains a party to a consent decree for police reforms

11 September 2020

Kathy

Pictured are slain Cleveland police detective James Skernivitz and Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams, who is Black

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor in chief. Coleman trained for 17 years as a reporter with the Call and Post Newspaper and is an investigative and political reporter with a background in legal and scientific reporting. She is also a former 15-year public school biology teacher.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Private funeral services were held for slain Cleveland police officer James Skernivitz at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in downtown Cleveland Friday morning.

He leaves behind a wife and three children, whom he dearly loved, sources said.

And he loved being a cop, and wearing the uniform, a 25-year veteran of the police force.

Among those in attendance were family members, friends and invited guests, and an entourage of police officers.

Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams was among the speakers.

Chief Williams praised Skernivitz as a family man and a dedicated police officer, the consummate team player who was loved and respected by his colleagues and peers, the chief said.

"Badge #2249 will always live in the hearts and minds of this city," said Williams, who is Black.

An undercover narcotics police officer at the time of his death, Det. Skernivitz, fondly called "Skern" or "Skernie" by fellow officers and close friends, was gunned down in his unmarked police car on Sept. 3 on the city's largely White west side, a 50-year-old drug informant in the car with him at the time also shot and killed.

David McDaniel, 18, and two juveniles, one 17-year-old and the other 15, are currently in custody and charged with their deaths, McDaniel charged with two counts of aggravated murder and the teens each with two counts of aggravated murder and charges of aggravated robbery and felonious assault.

All three of the defendants charged in the case are Black as racial tensions between police and Cleveland's Black community continue to be a problem, a decades long problem in fact.

A cop affidavit in the case says McDaniel and the two teens allegedly robbed Skernivitz, who was White, and the drug informant, Scott Dingess.

Both victims were then shot to death.

The shooting incident occurred about 10 pm on West 65th Street near Storer Avenue in Cleveland's Stockyards neighborhood near the Roses Discount Store.

Skernivitz' car crashed into a playground after he was shot.

The officer was later rushed to MetroHealth Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

Skernivitz is the second on-duty Cleveland police officer to die in the line of duty since Derek Owens, who was Black, on Feb. 29, 2008.

Owens was shot and killed by Lamidi Kafaru after allegedly witnessing a drug deal and initiating a chase.

Kafaru is currently serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.

Two other Cleveland police officers were killed in the line of duty in the last 20 years, Jonathan Schroeder in 2006, and Wayne Leon in 2000.

Federal authorities sent in by President Donald Trump to quell crime as part of his Operation Legend initiative continue to have a say relative to policing in the city, whether visibly or discretely.

Det. Skernivitz had just been sworn in as an Operation Legend officer before he was shot and killed last Thursday night.

Led by Mayor Frank Jackson, the city's third Black mayor who is currently serving a fourth term as mayor, the largely Black major American city of Cleveland is still recovering from riots that broke out in downtown Cleveland during a May 30 protest for justice for George Floyd, more than 100 people arrested in connection with the protest on charges ranging from resisting arrest to aggravated rioting.

Cleveland's celebrated police killings of Blacks in the last decade include 12-year-old Tamir Rice, Tanisha Anderson, Brandon Jones, Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell, and rapper Kenneth Smith.

The city and the U.S. Department of Justice remain parties to a court-monitored consent decree for police reforms instituted in 2015.

Last Updated on Sunday, 13 September 2020 12:01

Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris pays tribute to 9/11 victims at anniversary event in Virginia, Harris the first Black woman to compete on a major party presidential ticket in America....By Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com

11 September 2020

Kathy

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio and in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.

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FAIRFAX, Virginia- Democratic vice presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, the first Black woman to compete on a major party presidential ticket in America, paid tribute to the victims of the Sept 11, 2001 terrorists attacks and their families during a memorial service Friday in Fairfax, Virginia.

"I'm honored to be here today remembering those 19 years ago as we all do this somber day,” Harris said at Friday's anniversary event. “We're in this together."

The sister-in-law of a California firefighter, Harris cerebrated those who lost their lives that tragic day 19 years ago, including first responders.

And she said that the unprecedented terrorist attacks on American soil tested America's resolve.

"If we learned anything from 9/11 it's that the strength of the human spirit has no boundaries," Harris said.

Al Qaeda terrorists crashed commercial airliners into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. on Sept 11, 2001, part of a series of coordinated attacks against the United States that morning that resulted in 2,977 fatalities, and over 25,000 injuries.

The only Black woman in the U.S. Senate, Harris officially accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president last month during the 2020 Democratic National Convention, and following a star studded cast of convention speakers, including former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, Colin Powell, former first lady Michelle Obama, Dr. Jill Biden, and even former Ohio governor John Kasich, a Republican.

She is the fourth woman to compete on a major party presidential ticket in America behind vice presidential candidates Sarah Palin in 2008 and Geraldine Ferraro in 1984, and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016.

A native of Oakland and a former San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general elected to the Senate in 2016, Harris is the running mate of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, a former vice president under former president Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president.

"I accept the nomination for vice president [of the United States of America]," Harris said during her acceptance speech at the Dems convention in August,

Biden also accepted the Democratic nomination at the convention, but for president instead of vice president.

Harris' acceptance speech covered a gambit of issues, including family, community, foreign and domestic policy, institutional racism and sexism, voting and Civil Rights, and what she says are the failed policies of the Trump administration.

The federal lawmaker blamed the president for heightened coronavirus cases and deaths in the country, the U.S. leading all countries with some 193,000 deaths since the pandemic struck in early March.

The daughter of Indian and Jamaica immigrants who, herself, sought the 2020 Democratic nomination for president, Harris, 55, was selected among more than 20 women aspiring to become vice president that caught the former vice president's eye.

Biden promised to choose a female running-mate during the 11th Democratic Debate on March 15 in Washington, D.C as pressure subsequently mounted by Black leaders and Democrats, and even some mainstream media, for that woman to be a woman of color, preferably a Black woman.

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Last Updated on Saturday, 12 September 2020 19:00

Ohio's Democratic Congressional Delegation demands prepaid postage for ballots and ballot applications, and for Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, a Republican, to provide such prepaid postage free of charge, which the law does not preclude

09 September 2020

Kathy

Pictured are U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown of Cleveland (wearing red tie) and U.S. Representatives Marcy Kaptur (wearing blue), Tim Ryan (wearing blue tie), Marcia L. Fudge (wearing orange and Black), and Joyce Beatty (wearing orange with neglace) (Members of Ohio's five-member Democratic Congressional Delegation)

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), along with U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and U.S. Reps. Joyce Beatty (D-OH-3), Tim Ryan (D-OH-13), and Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH-11), chairwoman of the House Subcommittee on Elections, on Tuesday sent a letter to Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose urging him to use his existing authority to provide prepaid return postage on ballots and ballot applications.

Earlier this year Ohio's state lawmakers passed a law making the state's November election a mail-in ballot election for all practical purposes, and due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The letter to LaRose from Ohio's five-member Democratic Congressional Delegation, Brown, Fudge, Kaptur, Beatty and Ryan, comes as the Nov. 3 general election is less than two months away where incumbent President Donald Trump will square off with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, a former longtime U.S. senator and former vice president under former president Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president.

A breakdown of Ohio voters per drop box in each county can be found here.

Full text of the letter sent Tuesday to LaRose can be found here.

“In an election where many citizens’ only practical option is to vote by mail, forcing Ohioans to pay postage in order to exercise this right is akin to a modern day poll tax," the letter from the Democratic lawmakers reads in part.

The lawmakers also said that nothing in Ohio law prohibits Ohio's secretary of state from honoring their requests.

Sen Brown, a Cleveland Democrat and former Ohio secretary of state himself, is the most senior member of Ohio's five-member Democratic Congressional Delegation, asiide from Rep Kaptur, the longest serving woman in Congress. (Editors note: Ohio has 18 people in Congress, two U.S. senators, Brown and Republican Rob Portman of Cincinnati, and 16 U.S. representatives, 12 U.S. representatives of whom are Republican, and four of whom are Democrats, namely Reps. Beatty, Fudge, Kaptur and Ryan).

A former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Fudge leads Ohio's largely Black 11th congressional district, which includes Cleveland, and Kaptur's ninth congressional district extends from Toledo to Cleveland.

Beatty, one of two Blacks from Ohio in Congress along with Fudge, is a Columbus Democrat, and Rep. Ryan, a former presidential candidate, is a Niles Democrat

The federal lawmakers also urged LaRose to communicate with the U.S. postal service to ensure ballots that originate in Ohio are delivered on time, and that there are visible postmarks.

The lawmakers cautioned LaRose that "delays and cost cutting measures could endanger timely delivery of vote by mail ballots."

Last month Kaptur, Brown, Fudge, and Ryan sent a letter to the Ohio Controlling Board urging the board to confirm LaRose’s existing authority to prepay postage for absentee ballots and ballot applications for the upcoming November 2020 general election in Ohio.

They also sent a letter to Sec. LaRose in August urging him to reconsider his decision to prohibit local boards of elections from providing multiple secure ballot drop boxes in each county.

In the wake of an ongoing, unprecedented public health crisis, LaRose, the lawmakers say, banned county boards of elections from providing more than one ballot drop box for completed absentee ballots.

Last Updated on Monday, 02 November 2020 23:03

Black man, 2 Black teens charged in shooting death of Cleveland police officer James Skernivitz as tensions between police and the Black community continue to mount....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com

08 September 2020

Kathy

Pictured are Cleveland Police Detective James Skernivitz and David McDaniel

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Black man and two Black juveniles have been charged in the shooting death of Cleveland police officer James Skernivitz and a 50-year-old drug informant sitting in the officer's unmarked car when both were gunned down on Sept 3 on the city's largely White west side.

Both the man and juveniles are currently in custody without bond.

David McDaniel, 18, is charged with two counts of aggravated murder and is set to appear in Cleveland Municipal Court Wednesday where his case could be bound over to the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas for a likely indictment on criminal charges.

The teens, one 15-years-old and the other 17, are charged with two counts of aggravated murder and charges of aggravated robbery and felonious assault, and are set to be arraigned in juvenile court on Tuesday

A cop affidavit in the case says McDaniel and the two teens charged allegedly robbed Skernivitz and the drug informant, Scott Dingess.

Both victims were then shot to death.

Private funeral services for Skernivitz, who was on-duty when he was shot and killed, are Friday at the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in downtownin Cleveland, followed by a burial.

The shooting incident occurred about 10 pm Thursday night on West 65th Street near Storer Avenue in Cleveland's Stockyards neighborhood near the Roses Discount Store.

Skernivitz' car crashed into a playground after he was shot.

A 25-year veteran of the police department and an undercover narcotics officer at the time, Skernivitz was rushed to MetroHealth Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

He leaves behind a wife and children.

Skernivitz' shooting death comes on the heels of racial unrest nationwide over questionable police killings of unarmed Black people this year, including George Floyd in Minneapolis in May, and Breonna Taylor in March in Louisville.

Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams and Mayor Frank Jackson, both of them Black, said Skernivitz was likable, and in good standing, and called for community support for the fallen officer.

Activists have been respectful relative to the officer's death, canceling immediately scheduled Black Lives Matter protests in Cleveland.

Activists have said that when Blacks are erroneously gunned down by police justice for the families of the victims is far reaching, and in stark contrast to high profile killings of police by civilians, a double standard, they say.

Cleveland's celebrated police killings of Blacks in the last decade include 12-year-old Tamir Rice, Tanisha Anderson, Brandon Jones, Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell, and rapper Kenneth Smith.

The largely Black major American city is still recovering from riots that broke out in downtown Cleveland during a May 30 protest for justice for George Floyd, more than 100 people arrested behind the unprecedented riots on charges ranging from resisting arrest to aggravated rioting.

Skernivitz is the second on-duty Cleveland police officer to die in the line of duty since Derek Owens, who was Black, on Feb. 29, 2008.

Owens was shot and killed by Lamidi Kafaru after allegedly witnessing a drug deal and initiating a chase.

Kafaru is currently serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.

Two other Cleveland police officers were killed in the line of duty in the last 20 years, Jonathan Schroeder in 2006, and Wayne Leon in 2000.

Federal authorities sent in by President Donald Trump as part of his Operation Legend initiative continue to patrol the city, whether visibly or discretely, and purportedly assist authorities with heightened crime during the coronavirus pandemic.

Skernivitz had just been sworn in as an Operation Legend officer.

Meanwhile, community activists continue to demand the defunding of police departments across the country, including in Cleveland.

Last Updated on Sunday, 13 September 2020 12:11

If Trump wins Ohio and loses the presidency he will make history...."As Ohio goes, so goes the nation"....Black elected officials in Cleveland, Ohio say the Biden campaign needs to do more to engage Black voters...By editor Kathy Wray Coleman

07 September 2020

Kathy

Pictured are Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, and incumbent president Donald Trump

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog in Ohio and in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.

By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor in chief. Coleman trained for 17 years as a reporter with the Call and Post Newspaper and is an investigative and political reporter with a background in legal and scientific reporting. She is also a former 15-year public school biology teacher.

CLEVELAND, Ohio-Other than a percentage point or two, the recently held Democratic and Republican National conventions brought no significant changes in poll numbers between President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden as the Nov. 3 presidential election nears, but the president, who leads in Ohio but lags nationwide, could make history if he ultimately wins the swing state and loses the White House to Biden this year.

"As Ohio goes, so goes the nation," is the popular cliche that reminds both Democratic and Republican presidential candidates that should you lose Ohio, the presidency is essentially out of reach, or is it?

In 2004, Ohio swung the nation as Democratic nominee John Kerry lost the presidential election to George W. Bush.

Trump won Ohio in 2016 by eight points over Democrat Hillary Clinton, and went on to nab the presidency, though Clinton did win the popular vote.

No Democrat since JFK in 1060 has won the presidency without winning Ohio, and neither has any Republican of remembrance.

Ohio is a perennial swing state like the states of Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin, these states, including Ohio, accounting for a total of 156 electoral votes.

Biden leads Trump in Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Wisconsin, and North Carolina, Ohio one of the few swing states the president will likely win in November.

Critics say Biden's campaign in Ohio is mediocre at best and that Black voters in particular are not engaged.

" I can hardly find a Biden campaign sign on the east side of Cleveland, and we are not seeing much, if any at all, of the millions of dollars of campaign money" a Black elected official of Cleveland said under condition of anonymity.

A former longtime U.S. senator from Delaware, Biden served as vice president under former president Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president.

Obama won Ohio when he was fist elected in 2008, and again when he was reelected in 2012.

A popular Republican among his strong base of supporters, President Trump still lags behind Biden nationally in nearly every poll, and up to 11 percentage points, including Quinnipiac, CNN, ABC News/Washington Post, and Emerson polls.

Even the conservative-leaning Fox News poll shows Biden ahead of Trump.

The president's approval rating is at 46 percent as 54 percent of Americans disapprove of his performance, the coronavirus pandemic and Trump's response to escalating racial unrest behind erroneous police killings of unarmed Blacks nationwide, including George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville, major factors, polls show.

Meanwhile, Biden and his running mate for vice president, U.S. Sen Kamala Harris, the first Black woman to run on a major party presidential ticket in America, are moving closer to winning the White House with less than eight weeks until election day.

The former vice president officially clinched the Democratic nomination in early June and both he and Trump accepted their nominations for their respective parties at the Democratic and Republican conventions this summer.

Biden needed 1,991 of the 3,979 pledged delegates to claim the nomination, which he surpassed.

Winning the nomination was all but ensured when Biden's closest opponent dropped out of the race, U.S. Sen Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a socialist Democrat who was making his second bid for president after losing the nomination to Hillary Clinton in 2016, Clinton going on to lose the general election to Trump, a real estate mogul and former television personality.

During his bid this time around for the Democratic nomination Sanders, as was Biden, was effective in narrowing the more than 28 Democratic candidates down to the two of them.

Sanders nearly won Iowa, coming in second place to Pete Buttigieg, who left the race and announced his endorsement of Biden.

Sanders went on to win New Hampshire and Nevada.

But Biden, powered by the Black vote and an endorsement from Black U.S. Rep James Clyburn, subsequently won South Carolina, and Super Tuesday, and never looked back.

Biden, 77, remains the pragmatic choice of Black voters for president, and southern and elderly Black voters support him in large numbers too.

And while polls show Biden is the favorite to win the presidency this year, when Democrats and Black people stay home and do not vote, or, since the coronavirus outbreak, choose not to vote by mail, it helps the Republicans, data show.

While Black voter turnout for the first time in history proportionately outpaced Whites in 2012 when Obama ran for reelection, it declined by seven percentage points in 2016 when Clinton lost the presidency to Trump, pundits saying that if Blacks vote in this year's election like they did in 2012 Biden has a good chance of beating Trump.

There is no question that both Blacks and Democrats must vote in large numbers for a win for Biden to materialize, pundits have said.

Last Updated on Friday, 13 November 2020 17:36

Kentucky Derby rocked by protests: Authentic wins the 2020 Kentucky Derby as Breonna Taylor protesters march on Derby day in Louisville, Taylor Black and gunned down by White Metro Louisville cops in March....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman

06 September 2020

Kathy

Authentic, pictured at left and ridden by jockey John Velazquez, edged heavy favorite Tiz the Law to win the 146th running of the Kentucky Derby Saturday at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. as protests over the Louisville Metro police killing death of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor, pictured at right, continued throughout the weekend in the Derby City

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.

By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor in chief. Coleman trained for 17 years as a reporter with the Call and Post Newspaper and is an investigative and political reporter with a background in legal and scientific reporting. She is also a former 15-year public school biology teacher.

CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM, LOUISVILLE, Kentucky-

Authentic edged heavy favorite Tiz the Law to win the 146th running of the Kentucky Derby Saturday at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., a shocking win that destroyed any hopes of the Belmont Stakes winner bringing home a Triple Crown.

The annual event, traditionally the nation's biggest horse race, was streamlined and televised on NBC as fans were barred from the grounds due to the coronavirus pandemic, only roughly 1,000 people, mainly media, race horse affiliates and Church Hill Downs officials and employees, on the premises Saturday.

Ridden by jockey John Velazquez and trained by Bob Baffert, who yesterday brought in his sixth Derby win, Authentic led from start to finish, an 8-1 favorite that paid $18.80 to win.

Tiz the Law was the heavy favorite among the 16 horses in the Derby field with 3-5 odds and would have become the 14th horse to win the Triple Crown and the first since Justify had won both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes behind winning Belmont Stakes.

Third place went to Mr. Big News, a clear long shot.

The exacta paid $41 on a $2 bet, the $1 trifecta $655.90, and the $1 superfecta a mere $792.58, a far cry from the Derby payouts in 2019 that saw Country House win the race, the $2 exacta paying out $3,009.60 in 2019, the $1 trifecta, $11,475.30, and the $1 superfecta ,$51,400.10, more than double the $1 superfecta payout in 2018.

This year's Derby came five days before the start of the NFL and as the city faces national backlash from the March 13 Louisville Metro police killing of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor, Taylor unarmed and Black, and shot eight times in her apartment.

Her shooting death has triggered local and countrywide protests, and riots, Taylor among a host of Blacks erroneously killed or seriously injured this year by anxious White cops, also including George Floyd in Minneapolis in May, and Jacob Blake two weeks ago in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Billionaire media mogul Oprah Winfrey has bankrolled some 26 billboards throughout the city calling for the three involved White cops to be criminally charged and joins a growing number of people demanding criminal justice reforms nationwide, some activists also calling for the defunding of police departments across the country.

Derby protests for justice for Breonna Taylor went on throughout the city Saturday as thousands protested.

The tradition is for the coveted Derby horse race to occur the first Saturday in May of each year, a tradition that caps a two-week long Derby festival and that has for the second time in history been rocked by an international crisis, this time a pandemic that has brought the world to its knees.

The Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the Triple Crown, originally set for May 16, was postponed by Maryland Gov Larry Hogan and has been tentatively rescheduled to Oct. 20.

If the Preakness goes forward in October as scheduled, it would be the first time in history that Belmont Stakes is the first leg of the Triple Crown, the Kentucky Derby, the second leg, and Preakness Stakes, the third leg.

Last year's Derby race, held on May 4, 2019 at ChurchHill Downs, was steeped in controversy.

In spite of a muddy track from rain that came down on and off all day and sprinkled at the start of the race, long-shot Country House, with a 65-1 odds, won the 145th Kentucky to bring home the $3 million purse, a win by technicality after Maxim Security, the favorite with 4-1 odds, was disqualified for an improper lane change after crossing the finish line.

Officials said the crowd at Churchill Downs was at roughly 150,000 people in 2019, down from the year before when the attendance was 157,813, the rain a factor in 2018 too where Justify, with 5-2 odds, took first place, followed by Good Magic, which placed second, and Audible, the third place winner that year.

Last Updated on Monday, 07 September 2020 09:45

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