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CLEVELAND (AP) — The misdemeanor trial for five white Cleveland police supervisors accused of failing to control a high-speed car chase that led to two unarmed black people being killed in a 137-shot barrage of police gunfire will be held in a predominantly black suburb, not in county court, prosecutors said Monday.

Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty said officials in East Cleveland, where the November 2012 car chase ended and the shooting occurred, contacted his office about trying the case in that suburban city after a judge acquitted a white Cleveland patrolman last month on felony manslaughter charges for his role in the shooting deaths of driver Timothy Russell and passenger Malissa Williams. The patrolman's acquittal sparked protests among blacks.
Defense attorney Henry Hilow, speaking for the attorneys representing the supervisors, said that race appears to be a factor in the trial move, which he called "inappropriate." He said East Cleveland prosecutors had a chance more than two years ago to charge the officers.
The lone municipal judge in East Cleveland is black. If the trial is held in East Cleveland and the supervisors ask for a jury trial, the pool of potential jurors would be drawn from a city with a black population of 93 percent.
By contrast, about 30 percent of Cuyahoga County's residents are black, as are about 53 percent of Cleveland's residents, according to 2010 U.S. Census Bureau statistics.
McGinty raised issues of race before Brelo's trial when the patrolman asked that a judge and not a jury decide the case. McGinty objected and filed an unsuccessful motion that said a bench trial would deprive black Cuyahoga County residents of a chance to be part of a jury