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CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed (pictured) was convicted of DUI this afternoon by an eight-member majority White Cleveland Municipal Court jury before retired, visiting former Willoughby, Oh. judge Larry Allen, whom Republican Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor personally handpicked out of Lake County to hear the case after the original judge, Cleveland Judge Pinkey Carr, refused it

Carr, who is a Black Democrat like Reed and was an assistant county prosecutor and a lead attorney for the prosecution in the 2011 capital murder trial of since convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell, said that Reed had contributed to her successful 2011 campaign for judge, and that that should be grounds for her recusal or withdrawal. None of the other 11 regular judges of the Cleveland Municipal Court would take the case either, all complaining, through Administrative and Presiding Judge Ron Adrine, also Black,  that Cleveland City Council determines the court budget.

But what was the real issue since case law or applicable court rulings on affidavits of prejudice to assess whether an Ohio trial court judge should be disqualified from a case do not support recusal or refusal to  hear the traffic-related DUI case on the excuse of campaign contributions, something rampant among Ohio judges, or because of a budgetary conflict relative to the city's judiciary budget between the judges and city council.

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Pictured i s convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell, who strangled and murdered 11 Black women at his then home on Imperial Avenue on Cleveland's predominantly Black east side. Sowell sits on death row as his death sentnce and aggravated murder and other convictions are on appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court

RALLY..RALLY...RALLY!!!!!!!...PASS THIS ON PLEASE PEOPLE..BRING PROTEST SIGNS COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS.. TO ALL MEDIA FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE...................................Contacts are Imperial Women activist group at 216-659-0473 and Black on Black Crime Inc at 216-704-5036

What:/When/Where: Rally and press conference at 5 pm on  Thursday August 20, 4:45 pm at the Chateau Mansion, 13124 Euclid Ave, to address the fact that the courts have branded violence against innocent Black women raped and murdered, through the dismissal last week of claims around negligence by Cleveland police, city officials of missing persons reports, other actions,  as to the Imperial Avenue Murders by convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell, "FRIVOLOUS." VIOLENCE AGAINST INNOCENT VICTIMS OF CRIME INCLUDING  BLACK WOMEN AND OTHERS ACROSS RACIAL, GENDER AND SOCIOECONOMIC LINES IS NOT FRIVOLOUS, AND NEITHER IS POLICE MURDER OR POLICE NEGLIGENCE AND A LACK OF EMPATHY AROUND MISSING PERSONS REPORTS . After the rally the gathering will move inside of the Chateau for a community meeting on the handpicking of  retired, visiting out-of Cuyahoga County judges to illegally come into greater Cleveland to target Black elected officials and others, and on whether elected officials and law enforcement authorities have done enough to help eradicate violence against women and other innocent people  murdered by serial killers, other people, and by Cleveland police, and regardless of race, ethnicity, gender or socioeconomic status.

Who: Community activists groups including Imperial Women activist group, Black on Black Crime Inc, the Oppressed People's Nation, the Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, the Carl Stokes Brigade, Ohio Family Rights, the National Organization for Parental Equality, Audacity of Hope Foundation, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, Cleveland Urban News.Com, Black clergy, candidates for office , Black elected officials,  and families of victims of murder and/or rape including the family of 137 bullets shooting victim Malissa Williams and Imperial Avenue serial killer Anthony Sowell victims, as well as the families of women raped and murdered this year on Cleveland's east side.

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Pictured are Cleveland Mayoral Candidate Ken Lanci (in tie) and Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, who will square off for the November mayoral election due to no others in the race for a non-partisan September primary, which will also be held for 17 Cleveland City Council seats. Both Jackson and Lanci are Democrats. Jackson is a two-term mayor and Lanci is a millionaire businessman who grew up in a housing project on the city's majority Black east side).

CLEVELAND, Ohio-Ohio Communities United and the Greater Cleveland African American Chamber of Commerce are announcing the first mayoral debate for Cleveland Mayor. The debate will be at the Cleveland City Club on Monday, August 19 and is scheduled to begin at 11 am. The moderator will be Ronnie Duncan, a former Cleveland sportscaster.  Democratic Candidate for Cleveland Mayor, Ken Lanci has accepted the invitation and looks forward to attending, organizers said.Tickets for this City Club event are $20 and can be reserved by calling the City Club at 216.621.0082.

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CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Imperial Women, the Carl Stokes Brigade, Black on Black Crime Vice President Al Porter, the Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, other activists groups and family members of Blacks murdered and raped will  hold  a press conference and public meeting on Thursday, August 22, 2013 at 4:45 pm at the Chateau Mansion, 13124 Euclid Avenue, to legally deal with Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, inequities against the Black community on violence against women, and whether Black elected officials and other leaders have done all they can to help. For more information contact Imperial Women at 216-659-0473. Speakers include community activists, Black elected officials, clergy, and rape and murder victims families.

The groups will also deal with why the Rape Crisis and Domestic Violence Centers of the majority Black city of Cleveland are run by White women who rarely come into the ghettos of Cleveland and East Cleveland at all. And activists will assess whether Cleveland Ward 9 Councilman Kevin Conwell should be removed as chair of city council's safety committee for protecting negligent cops that ignore missing persons reports as well as his shielding of the 13 White police officers that gunned down unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell late last year with 137 bullets.

Additionally at the meeting, activists will address actions by Federal District Court Judge Donald Nugent in dismissing the lawsuit claims filed by the families of some of the 11 women murdered on Imperial Avenue by serial killer Anthony Sowell and his branding the suits frivolous as a means to prejudice an appeal to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, a venue that has overturned lawsuit dismissals by Nugent that he has deemed frivolous. And activists will address Republican Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O' Connor as to her handpicking visiting out-of-Cuyahoga County judges to come into Cleveland in violation of state law to target Blacks like Cleveland Councilman Zack Reed, whose DUI case is underway where Cleveland Municipal Court judges arbitrarily refused to hear the case. This, say some community activists, was to help O' Connor do her handpicking of a retired, out-of-town judge to hand down the sentence she wants for her political friends if Reed is convicted. (Note: The Councilman Zack Reed DUI case is a traffic case that Cleveland Municipal Court judges routinely hear, even involving city employees. If Black judges like Cleveland Municipal Judge Pinkey Carr will not stay on cases to do the right thing, rather than to withdraw to permit a handpicked out-of-the county retired White judge to come in to Cleveland to sentence Blacks in a prejudicial manner for political and other reasons when they get convicted, then why elect judges. In other situations like in Berea, Ohio these visiting retired judges are fixing cases, data show, and with protection by the Old Black Political Guard of Cleveland, Ohio and the prior leadership team of the Cleveland NAACP).

Community activists urge the state legislature to pass House Bill 216, which was pushed by Imperial Women and is sponsored by state Rep. Bill Patmon (D-10). If passed into law, HB216 requires that Ohio trial court judges in multi-judge courts are assigned and reassigned to civil and criminal cases at random.