Cleveland Urban News.Com Update And Message From Editor Kathy Wray Coleman (pictured)
Dear Community Activists:
This is a follow-up to our recent meeting with retired Judge Sara Harper, third vice president of the Cleveland NAACP, where we agreed to send letters on community issues from deadly excessive force to foreclosure fraud and legal system inequities to Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, with copies to President Obama,the U.S. Department of Justice, and others. We also agreed to send letters to other elected officials of greater Cleveland and to request a meeting with Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge. We will meet at 6 pm on Tuesday, July 23 to write the letters as a group. Call 216-659-0473 if you want to participate.
The letter to Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald will deal with documented foreclosure fraud by county officials, judges and the sheriff's office, among other issues, and we voted to write Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty on the 137 bullets shooting by Cleveland police of two unarmed Blacks and various other issues, including "nigger" name calling and threats to hang Blacks by his White office employees with his support.
The aunt of 137 bullets shooting victim Malissa Williams, 30 at her death, attended the meeting with Judge Harper and we voted for the 13 White Cleveland police officers that gunned down the unarmed Williams and unarmed Tim Russell last year with great fanfare to be fired and prosecuted.
We await a response from Cleveland NAACP President The Rev Hilton Smith who has scheduled a meeting with both Prosecutor McGinty and Mayor Jackson over the aforementioned. We again thank Rev Smith for meeting with community activists and the families of victims of rape, murder and Cleveland police killings.
During our meeting with Judge Harper she mentioned that she came and got me out of jail or released from the hospital for high blood pressure while I was illegally jailed and got physically sick. The overnight stay hospital was physical treatment for high blood pressure and harassment by some corrupt judges, not mental, in case that is how her comments were mistaken. They often want to brand outspoken activists and journalists mental, particular Blacks that expose political corruption and institutional racism, nd being Black and female is double jeopardy. Again, I have never had any court ordered mental treatment or been in any mental hospital though slick and allegedly racist Prosecutor Tim McGinty, who is friends with no good George Forbes and some sellout Black leaders, had his "nigger" name calling employee defame me for exposing judicial and prosecutorial corruption, as well as foreclosure fraud.
What Judge Harper did not tell you at the meeting is that I was held in the county jail for four days, held naked in a jail cell by a male supervisor, given a knockout drug, and released without charges with her help. There is no record of my having been in the Cuyahoga County Jail for four days without charges and the illegal jailing followed investigations by me as an investigative journalist for the Call and Post Newspaper and others on foreclosure fraud and documented judicial case fixing, among other matters. I did a five-part series in the Call and Post on the illegal jail experience and those series will be reprinted momentarily here at Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read online Black newspaper. www.clevelandurbannews.com.
Kathy Wray Coleman, The Imperial Women/Imperial Women Coalition, 216-659-0473 and www.clevelandurbannews.com
