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).
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Kathy Wray Coleman is a community activist and 22- year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper.
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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.
O'Donnell is hearing the case in lieu of a jury per Brelo's request.'
Brelo last year tried to have the judge removed from the case claiming he is bias and corrupt, an effort thwarted by Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor, who denied the affidavit of prejudice.
Brelo, who is White, fired 49 of the 137 shots fired by a total of 13-non Black Cleveland cops who gunned down unarmed Blacks Malissa 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. He is currently suspended without pay pending the outcome of his trial.
No gun was found at the deadly scene.
The other 12 Cleveland officers that did the shooting, 11 White and one Hispanic, were not charged with crimes per the support of county prosecutor Tim McGinty, and Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, both of them of whom are White also, and of whom were endorsed by local and state police unions.
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