Bill Swain Remembers James Rhodes

Bill Swain Remembers James Rhodes

Veteran activist, Bill Swain, interviewed by Carol Steiner of Puncture the Silence about Memorial Portrait poster of James Rhodes, killed by Cleveland police on February 19, 1997


“James was a student at Tri-C Metro. He took a bus home and he stopped at a corner store at about 108th and St. Clair. He came out of the store and the police start chasing him and he ran into an apartment doorway, pull out a gun, and kill him, and the police claim they thought he had a gun in his book bag.”–Bill Swain