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CLEVELAND, Ohio- A coalition of community activists group leaders, mainly women, met Wednesday with Judge Sara Harper, a retired Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals judge and third vice president of the Cleveland NAACP. The meeting was  relative to a host of community issues from fatal excessive force by Cleveland police, to abduction, rape and murder of women, foreclosure impropriety by Cuyahoga County officials and judges, and inequities in sentencing by the 34 majority White judges of the general division of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas against the greater Cleveland Black community.

In addition to grassroots groups including Imperial Women, Black on Black Crime Inc, and the Carl Stokes Brigade, among those at the meeting was Dorothy Singelmier, the aunt of Malissa Williams, 30, who was gunned down late last year by a group of White Cleveland police officers along with Timothy Russell, 43. The officers fired 137 bullets at the unarmed Black couple and racial unrest continues to mount as no criminal indictments have come down and the officers were returned to regular duty last month.

Following a heated discussion, the group agreed that the all non-Black 13 police officers at issue should be fired and prosecuted. They also voted to send a letter of concerns to Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson on the deadly shooting and other matters, with copies to President Barack Obama, the U.S. Department of Justice and an entree of others. Also, the activists said that they will seek a meeting with Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (D-11) and write letters to the FEDS, Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald on the foreclosure fraud issue, and to Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, whose White employees are under fire for calling Blacks "nigger" on the Internet, and demanding that Blacks are "hanged high."

The group came up with a coalition name but since they already are recognized as the Imperial Women Coalition they decided to proceed under that name.

Activists said that more meetings will me held and that a plan of action is in the makings.

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