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Ohio’s only majority African-American congressional district may disappear with redistricting: The Wake Up for Monday, May 10, 2021
Posted May 10, 2021
The congressional district that was formerly represented by Stephanie Tubbs Jones and Louis Stokes is likely to no longer be majority minority after it s remapped.
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11th District: In the 1960s, Louis Stokes asked the nation’s highest court to declare that Cleveland’s congressional districts unfairly divided its African American community to dilute Black political power. So the Ohio legislature created the state’s only majority minority congressional district. When Ohio redraws its congressional maps this year to divide the state among 15 districts, the original district will likely lose its African American majority for the first time, Sab
May 10, 2021
CLEVELAND (AP) An Ohio man has been convicted in an alleged plot to ambush and kidnap law enforcement officers responding to a false distress call.
A federal jury on Friday convicted 21-year-old Christian Ferguson of Cleveland of two counts of attempted kidnapping.
Ferguson was arrested in May 2020 after authorities alleged that he made “violent and extremist” posts in a chat room and spoke of making a false emergency call to lure officers to a “remote location” and take their weapons and body armor. Authorities alleged that his ultimate goal was to “start an uprising.”
Prosecutors alleged that Ferguson and two informants met in Cuyahoga Valley National Park for a “dry run,” FBI authorities said in court documents.
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An Ohio man has been convicted in an alleged plot to ambush and kidnap law enforcement officers responding to a false distress call.
A federal jury on Friday convicted 21-year-old Christian Ferguson of Cleveland of two counts of attempted kidnapping.
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Ferguson was arrested in May 2020 after authorities alleged that he made “violent and extremist” posts in a chat room and spoke of making a false emergency call to lure officers to a “remote location” and take their weapons and body armor. Authorities alleged that his ultimate goal was to “start an uprising.”
Cleveland man convicted of attempted kidnapping in alleged ambush plot
A federal jury on Friday convicted 21-year-old Christian Ferguson of Cleveland of two counts of attempted kidnapping.
Ferguson was arrested in May 2020 after authorities alleged that he made “violent and extremist” posts in a chat room and spoke of making a false emergency call to lure officers to a “remote location” and take their weapons and body armor. Authorities alleged that his ultimate goal was to “start an uprising.”
Prosecutors alleged that Ferguson and two informants met in Cuyahoga Valley National Park for a “dry run,” FBI authorities said in court documents. They hiked and talked about the plan, then placed a 911 call to determine police response, watching four officers respond and later return to their cars, authorities alleged.