By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Kathy Wray Coleman is a community activist, educator and 21-year investigative journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years. (www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com)

CLEVELAND, Ohio- As Cleveland Rocks NYE 2015 hits downtown Cleveland tonight beginning at 8 pm with a 10-dollar-per-person public New Year's Eve party to ring in 2015 outside of the Convention Center on Mall B, 602 St Clair Ave, community activists will be protesting over police killings at 9:30 pm at the nearby Public Square, also in downtown Cleveland.

Also, there will be a free New Year's Eve party at the Horseshoe Casino, also in downtown Cleveland. It features D.J. Smoov spinning tunes on the first floor until 2 am, and the Spazmatics will perform beginning at 9:30 pm on the second floor of the casino into an '80s party. The Horseshoe will serve champagne for a buck, from 4 p.m. to 1 a.m., organizers said.

Other events will be going on throughout the city, a city where all eyes are on the relationship between police and the community, a relationship that is being tested as police shootings of unarmed people escalate. The killings, which have increased racial unrest, particularly in the Black community, come coupled with findings by the U.S. Department of Justice of systemic deficiencies in the largely White Cleveland Police Department, from illegal deadly shootings to cruel and unusual  punishment against the mentally ill.

The Public Square rally, organized by Revolution Books and Puncture the Silence, will address police killings nationally, and by Cleveland police , including the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice on the city's west side, the killing last month of Tanisha Anderson by Cleveland police while in custody, and the 137 shots Cleveland police killings of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell.

For the New Year's Eve party at Mall B  on St Clair Ave, there be  live coverage, starting around 8 p.m. on the Entertainment Channel, giving you the rundown on festival, the Plain Dealer Newspaper reported.

Other Mall B party features  include fireworks, food trucks, a beer garden and performances by Cleveland's own Machine Gun Kelly, DJ E-V and Carlos Jones. Gates open at 8 pm, and the event will be broadcast live on WOIO Channel 19, from 10 p.m. to 12:30 am.

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