Veteran activist, Bill Swain, interviewed by Carol Steiner of Puncture the Silence about Memorial Portrait Poster of James Harris, killed by Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority police on August 15, 1998
“Actually I think he was, well he was killed in the Outhwaite projects by the CMHA police. He was a guy that loves his music and he would just listen a lot. He was about 51. Everybody thought, you know, he was a laid-back guy. I don’t know how or why they would kill him. What happened is his wife or partner called the police because it was getting a little out of hand and they were having a dispute. So she called them up. They came, told her to get out of the way and killed him. It was horrible. He was doing nothing. They had a little dispute, a little beef. They killed him. Very tragic.”–Bill Swain