By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online New Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers (www.clevelandurbannews.com) Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Community activists protested  against Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and city council at E. 124th St and Superior Ave. in Cleveland Friday afternoon in response to a disproportionate abundance of  red light traffic ticket cameras on the predominantly Black east side of the majority Black major metropolitan city. They say it is  unconstitutional , particularly since more than 69 percent of the traffic tickets are issued to young Black people, and  that the cameras, as situated throughout the city, represent racial profiling and the arbitrary and capricious abuse of power against the Black community by Jackson, the City of Cleveland, and Cleveland City Council.

"We have to protest on this,'" said Community Activist Art McKoy, who leads Black on Black Crime Inc and who led the rally on Friday, one attended by various groups including the Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, which is led by Community Activist Don Bryant.

Activists said that they will discuss the issue, among others, at 6 pm forum with Cleveland Mayoral Candidate Ken Lanci on Thursday, May 30, at Lil Africa in Cleveland, 6816 Superior Ave. For more information on the event contact Imperial Women at 216-659-0473.

Next to Boston Cleveland is the second most segregated city among major metropolitan cities nationwide. It is roughly 58 percent Black and is divided along racial lines by the Cuyahoga River with Blacks primarily residing on the east side and Whites dominating the west side of town.

Currently the cameras that snap alleged speeders are at 51 Cleveland intersections, 35 on the east side and 16 on the west side of the city. But Cleveland Jackson and a majority of the nine Blacks on the 18 member city council want more on the east side to stop crime, though opponents say it is really nothing but a spy technique and a cover up for police allegedly not doing their jobs.

Ward 9 Councilman Kevin Conwell, who chairs city council's safety committee and has not spoken out against no Blacks on the mayor's law enforcement leadership team and numerous other crime-related issue including rapes and murders of Black women and the gunning down by police of unarmed Black people in droves, introduced new legislation to harass the Black community further for 26 more red light cameras on the east side and only 16 on the west side.

That proposed legislation is now a city ordinance or city law as 15 council members, enough for a majority, voted in agreement of it at a city council meeting last week.

Find below the intersections of the 42 more red light cameras that Cleveland City Council voted on last week to erect at intersections throughout the city, a city that CNN reports as having double the crime rate of other major American cities.

Woodland Ave at E. 55th St.

Lakeview Road and Superior Avenue

East 105th Street and Superior Avenue

East 124th Street and Superior Avenue

East 156th Street and Waterloo Road

Neff Road at East 185th Street

East 55th Street at Broadway

Orange Avenue at East 30th Street

Chester Avenue at East 105th Street

St. Clair Avenue at East 152nd Street

Kinsman Road at East 93rd Street

Lee Road at Miles Road

Stokes Boulevard at Cedar Avenue

West 25th Street at Clark Avenue

West 65th Street at Clark Avenue

I-490 at East 55th Street

Pearl Road at Denison Avenue

Broadview Road at Brookpark Road

St. Clair Avenue at East 105th Street

Woodland Avenue at East 30th Street

Lorain Avenue at West 65th Street

Broadview Road at Spring Road

St. Clair Avenue at East 55th Street

Puritas Avenue at West 150th Street

Martin Luther King Jr. Drive at East 105th Street