Pictured is Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Nancy Fuerst, whom activists want out of office for alleged malfeasance and the harassment of maliciously prosecuted Blacks and activists targeted for illegal prosecution by racist White cops and County Prosecutor Mike O'Malley
Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com-CLEVELAND, Ohio-Greater Cleveland community activists, led by Black on Black Crime Inc, Imperial Women Coalition, Fathers Lives Matter and several other greater area activist groups, will again picket the embattled Cuyahoga County Jail at the Justice Center in downtown Cleveland on Aug 15, 2019 at 11 am to protest jail conditions, and nine inmate deaths in roughly a year, and for prison and reentry reforms, and the county sheriff to be elected CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE FOR THIS PROTEST
Activists also want Common Pleas Judge Nancy Fuerst removed from the bench for harassing Black and female community activists harassed by racist White cops in malicious prosecutions before her.
Activists say the rally will also address women's issues, malicious prosecutions, bail reform, excessive bonds, excessive force by police, excessive sentences that target Blacks, racism, sexism and corrupt judges, prosecutors and other officials.
Last November U.S. Marshals issued findings of inhumane and unconstitutional jail conditions, prompting indictments of the former jail warden and former jail director, and an FBI raid of the office of County Executive Armond Budish.
Previous rallies, say activists, have primarily targeted Budish, who is Jewish, but have shielded common pleas judges and prosecutors from scrutiny, largely because they are White, say activists.
The aforementioned activist groups are part of a larger group of more than 17 organizations that have formed a county jail coalition, Black Cleveland activists and reentry reform activists saying that while they belong to the larger group of mainly suburban activists, they reserve the right to act independently on issues impacting greater Cleveland's Black community and others.
Cleveland is a largely Black city led by four-term mayor Frank Jackson, the city's third Black mayor, and Cuyahoga County, the second largest of 88 counties statewide, is 29 percent Black, and a Democratic stronghold.
The upcoming protest follows several pickets by community activists over the county jail, the including on May 23, also at the Justice Center, a protest held a week before Sheriff Cliff Pinkney, the county's first Black sheriff, announced he will resign, effective Aug. 2, for "person reasons."
"At the rally we will also be calling for an elected sheriff and we want Judge Nancy Fuerst removed from the bench, her last venture being her refusal to assign indigent Blacks and activists legal counsel in serious cases where they are falsely accused of crimes against White police officers who have harassed them, and this occurs after this runaway judge removes their appointed attorneys from the cases," said activist Alfred Porter Jr., president of Black on Black Crime Inc.
Also at the rally, activists will take on unfair judges and County Prosecutor Mike O'Malley for overcrowding the jail with some innocent people.
O'Malley, say activists, is prosecuting Blacks and activists beyond the speedy trial time to get erroneous convictions, and he and the largely White 34 common pleas judges are simply doing as they please to the detriment of the Black community.
Activists say voters should vote out O'Malley when he runs for reelection in 2020.
After ousting fellow Democrat Tim McGinty, O'Malley has been county prosecutor since 2017, and absolutely nothing has changed for the betterment of the Black community, in spite of his campaign promises to do right by Black people.
Activists took on Judge Fuerst, 66, a former presiding and administrative judge of the common pleas general division bench, at the May 23 rally at the Justice Center in Cleveland and urged voters to oust her if and when she runs for reelection in 2020 for another six-year term, the last term of which she is eligible because of age limitations.
Fuerst is under fire by activists and others for allegedly harassing Black activists via racist and malicious prosecutions at the hands of prosecutors and White cops who have allegedly stalked them for standing up.against excessive force by Cleveland police, public corruption and the theft of homes of county residents via illegal foreclosures led by crooked Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell, the sheriff's office, and big banks and mortgage companies, including JP-Morgan Chase Bank and its foreclosure law firms of Bricker and Eckler, Thompson Hine, and Lerner, Sampson and Rothfuss.
Protesters held protest signs at the May 23 rally calling for Fuerst's ouster, saying she has it in for Black activists who have fought for court-monitored jail reforms and against racism, sexism, police misconduct and excessive force, and county public corruption by her judicial peers, and others.
Activists say Fuerst has refused to dismiss malicious cases involving Black activists falsely accused of assaulting but not touching White KKK-type University Heights cops, even though the speedy trial time has passed, and that she is arbitrarily jailing them for missing trials without formal notice of trial that they know nothing about. And she is refusing to put trial dates in writing by journal entries or record as required by Ohio Supreme Court case law, and then issuing illegal arrest warrants if defendants fail to appear for her secret off-the-record- trials for Black people that are unconstitutional at best.
Her behavior, say activists, and other sources, appears irrational, and borders on violating the Ohio Judicial Code of Conduct and the Ohio Lawyer's Professional Code of Responsibility, and she could care less, sources say.
Public records also reveal that Judge Fuerst will not journalize or docket when some Blacks and activists appear for trial and the White cops maliciously accusing them of crimes against them do not show, and is issuing orders, data show, saying she will jail indigent Black activists in cases before her if they insult or take up too much time of White attorneys she handpicks and appoints to felony cases.
Her reason, says sources, for refusing to journalize or docket trial dates, is so if police fail to respond to subpoenas in malicious prosecution cases involving Black activists she can justify not penalizing them or not holding them in contempt of court. Speedy trial rights, unless waived, are also at issue when cops fail to show for trial as purported witnesses. All of this, say activists, and legal pundits, seems unethical, and commensurate to obstruction of justice, and is enough of an incentive to merit the judge's resignation from the bench.
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