Other clergy leading the effort include the Rev. Dr. William Myers of  New Mount Zion Baptist Church in Cleveland, Rabbi Robert Nosanchuk of  Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple in Beachwood, Ohio, the Rev. Dr. Ken Chalker of University Circle United Methodist Church in Cleveland, and the Rev. Joseph Cherry of  the Unitarian Universalist Society of Cleveland

Community activists have also called for McGinty, a White Democrat and former common pleas judge and assistant county prosecutor, to be removed and replaced with a special prosecutor in the controversial case that is being watched nationally.

Last month Rice's mother, Samaria Rice, and her attorneys in a pending wrongful death lawsuit, held a  press conference and called for McGinty to step aside. They have accused him of bias and prejudice for hiring handpicked experts to purportedly taint the grand jury process in favor of police, bias against the Black community that he routinely does without opposition from Democratic Black leaders and others, sources allege.

McGinty is most recently under fire by the greater Cleveland community for racially insensitive comments he made publicly last week in an attack on the still grieving Samaria Rice, who is Black.

“They waited until they didn’t like the reports they received. They’re very interesting people… let me just leave it at that… and they have their own economic motives,” the insensitive McGinty said during a community meeting in Cleveland last Thursday.

Elected officials and Black leaders have also tired of McGinty's shenanigans. Last month the Cleveland NAACP per its new president, local criminal defense attorney Michael Nelson Sr., and Cuyahoga County Councilpersons Dale Miller, Yvonne Conwell, and Anthony Hairston, called for indictments of police involved in the case. Nelson, Hairston and Conwell are Black, and Miller, a former Cleveland city councilman and state legislator, is a liberal, and licensed and astute attorney. (Editor's note: Conwell is the wife of Cleveland Ward 9 Councilman Kevin Conwell, who is also Black).

And earlier this year Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Ron Adrine, who is also Black, found probable cause for felony criminal charges against the two cops that killed Tamir, including aggravated murder, though McGinty ignored it and has said that cops that kill people, mainly White ones, cannot be assessed by municipal judges for preliminary felony criminal charges prior to the convening of a grand jury. This is though state law explicitly says otherwise if a criminal complaint is brought by city prosecutors at the municipal level. And this is something community activists are also upset with Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson over since the probable cause finding by Adrine followed a citizens group court filing for criminal charges against police and not one from his appointed city prosecutor, who is not Black. (Editor's note: Mayor Jackson, the city's three-term Black mayor, has said that McGinty and the county grand jury have the ultimate authority under state law as to felony indictments on criminal charges).

Others accused of felony crimes, said McGinty, most of them Black,  can be be assessed for preliminary felony charges at the municipal level before a grand jury convenes and for a possible bind over for grand jury review following a probable cause finding, many of whom are subjected to warrants, and high bonds without even an investigation or an opportunity to be heard. And this is a regular practice by racist judges like Shaker Heights Judge K.J. Montgomery, a Democrat and alleged drunk who is accused of  targeting Blacks and community activists for the White establishment, police and others, including McGinty, her longtime ally in malfeasance.

Endorsed by police unions across the state of Ohio and up for reelection next year, McGinty has stacked the deck for the grand jury with handpicked experts to testify that the Rice shooting by Cleveland police was justifiable, an indication of what he is routinely doing against the Black community, sources said yesterday.

Rice, who was Black, was gunned down in less than two seconds when police officers Timothy Loehmann, who pulled the trigger, and Frank Garmback, pulled up at a public park and recreation center on the city's west side where the kid was playing with a toy gun

They were responding to a foiled 9-1-1 call.

Both police officers are supported by the Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association, which endorsed McGinty, who retired from the common pleas bench and is serving the third year of a first four- year term as the prosecutor of Cuyahoga County, a Democratic stronghold that is roughly 29 percent Black and the largest of 88 countries in Ohio.

The Black child's quick murder by police has heightened tensions between police and the Black community and follows or precedes other police killings of unarmed Black people in Cleveland and nationwide.

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