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DeWine reiterated that he is not See Page 5 the door with a new, unopened toy for donation (or $20 tive kid, Ricky likes to ride his bike thethe doorsame withmargins a new, as the unopened overall votetoy for- 13,861 donation (63.4%) (or $20 for See Page 4 Biden and 7,610 (34.8%) for Trump. planningwithout a totoy). close bars and restaurants at this time. Williams which is his favorite toy. without a toy). VOL. 41 No.43 Tuesday, November 17, 2020- Friday, November 20, 2020 Daily FREEEASTSIDE NEWSFREE ISSUED FRIDAY READ ON - WRITE ON SERVING: LARCHMERE - WOODLAND, SHAKER SQUARE, BUCKEYE, WOODLAND, MT. PLEASANT, READ ON - WRITE ON LEE & AVALON, HARVARD - LEE, MILES - UNION, UNIVERSITY CIRCLE AREA, WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS, VILLAGES OF NORTH RANDALL, HIGHLAND HILLS AND CITY OF EAST CLEVELAND “COVERING THE NEWS TODAY FOR A BETTER TOMORROW” Biden President-elect, Trump won’t concede Rallying cries about flat- virus down,” he said. tening the curve have been begun DeWine said President again as the COVID numbers soar. Donald Trump’s administration Solid leadership is in has informed him Ohio could short supply, with the outgoing receive 30,000 doses of the vac- Trump Administration refuses to cine next month. The state will concede the election and give Pres- prioritize giving those vaccines ident-elect Joe Biden the tools he Don’t Forgetto To health Turn care workers. needs to take over the pandemic Your Clock Forward While the Biden transi- Karen Wilson, the mother of Florence Zenobia Crittenden, along with response. tion team meets to deal with the Lisa Morris, Dennita Pruitt, and a host of volunteers released 54 balloons to Despite the showdown, COVID-19 crisis as well as the honor what would have been Florences’s 54th birthday. Florence passed at the good news about promising CO- economy and national security age of 34 due to complications of diabetes in 2001. The event was dubbed “the VID-19 vaccine candidates were issues, Trump has been golfing Stairway to Heaven” balloon release. See story and additional photos on page 2. released this week. at his club. Americans’ reactions to Biden Trump the pandemic have become in- After months of separa- DeWine said Northeast creasingly divorced from the real- tion, it’s natural that people are Ohio has seen an alarming spike in Tamir Rice Foundation to design streetscape The Tamir Rice Foun- ity as Trump supporters are still in desperate to see loved ones and COVID-19 infections over the past Garmback had gone to dation, 6117 St. Clair Ave., in- denial of the severity of the crisis. reclaim a sense of normality–but two weeks. Every area county is the front of the vehicle and had vests in the growth and enrich- Public-health officials things are far from normal. seeing cases spread at a rate that is a clear shot. Witnesses said that ment of all children through may be facing their biggest chal- More than half of U.S. more than three times what the U.S. they heard 3 shots. after-school programs in arts lenge yet: forcing the public to face COVID-19 cases have been re- Centers for Disease Control and Pre- and culture by allowing them A surveillance video of how bad things still are, and how corded since August. More than 1 vention defines as high risk. In Lake to express their truth to im- the incident was released by the much worse they may become. million new cases were logged in County, one out of every 100 resi- prove their lives as they grow police after it was highly edited . From a public-health per- just the week leading up to Novem- dents has tested positive for the coro- into young adults. The video did not show spective, Thanksgiving was always ber 17. navirus within the past two weeks. Several Cleveland that as Tamir lay dying, the offi- going to be a problem. Maskless Governor Mike DeWine “Every county in Northeast council members introduced cers were more interested in con- indoor gatherings in close quarters offered a dire outlook on the state Ohio is now literally on fire from this legislation that would allow the fiscating the surveillance videos. are perfect breeding grounds for of the coronavirus pandemic. He virus,”DeWine said. Tamir Rice Foundation to build Only an FBI agent who was on the virus, and many Thanksgiv- urged Ohio residents to downsize “What we do in the next a streetscape on city property in scene administered first aid. ing celebrations will likely include their Thanksgiving plans and avoid several weeks as Ohioans will deter- memory of Tamir, the 12-year- The prosecution present- older adults at high risk of severe other gatherings to help reduce mine if we can really build this bridge Rice old boy who was shot and killed ed evidence to a grand jury, which COVID-19. transmission. and if we can slow the spread of this Recently, the public by Cleveland police in 2014. asked for the Grand Jury tran- declined to indict, primarily on the If passed, the scripts to be released. basis that Rice was drawing what Grandfather of Bey begs for the violence to stop streetscape would be installed On November 22, 2014, appears to be an actual firearm and maintained on a portion of Jacky Green, the grand- we should have been able to cel- Bey, of Garfield Heights Tamir was killed by Cleveland from his waist as the police ar- the city’s greenspace at Cudell father of Marreon Stevenson ebrate his birthday. Tragically, as died after being shot in the 1200 Police. Two officers, Timo- rived. Commons near old West Bou- block of E. 84th Street around 3:30 thy Loehmann and 46-year-old Neither the FBI agent nor Bey, 18, is devastated at the loss I have watched many other fami- levard and Detroit Avenue. p.m. last Thursday. According to Frank Garmback, were respond- EMS saw a gun by Tamir’s body. of his granson. lies suffer the fate that my fam- The proposal was first the police report, another male in ing to a police dispatch call re- Tamir was only in possession of He asks the public at a ily is going through now, I never introduced to the agenda on his car shot him. Bey then crashed garding a male who had a gun. his cell phone. meeting of BBCI, Survivors/Vic- realized the tremendous pain un- November 18, nearly six years into a tree, injuring a 17-year-old The dispatcher did not notify the The Justice Department tims and other groups, “ Fifteen til it happened to us. My family to the day since Rice’s death, in his front passenger seat. EMS Cleveland officer on duty at the effectively ceased its civil rights homicides in one week. How realizes that we can no longer sit by council members Brian transported Bey to University Hos- recreation center who was just investigation into the case. The many were wounded?” The orga- by quietly and say nothing. We Mooney, Jenny Spencer, Ken- pitals, where he was pronounced a few feet from Tamir who had department had not told Rice’s nizations held a candle light vigil realize that we are in the midst neth Johnson, and Anthony dead.The shooter and a female in the been playing all morning at the in Bey’s memory for the family. of a great virus surge. How- Brancatelli. family it wouldn’t be bringing car fled the area and remain on the center. charges in the case, which techni- He is in shock. He is ever, we are also in the midst of loose. Cleveland council The officers drove across . cally remains open on the books, greiving as he describes Marre- a huge surge of violence. There Green is asking for the vio- members introduce legisla- the playing field as the training but has not advanced.