Frank Q. Jackson, 22, was in the news last week when a vehicle registered in his name was seen fleeing the scene of a fatal shooting on the city’s west side. That vehicle was found torched two days later. Another of the younger Jackson’s vehicles, a truck, was towed from the Mayor’s home when police arrived to investigate.
It was not the first time Frank Q. Jackson had a brush with the law. Earlier this summer, in fact, the 22-year-old pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a traffic stop in May. He had a firearm and prescription painkillers in the truck and was charged, on top of that, with aggravated menacing and aggravated disorderly conduct. He was sentenced in July to two years of probation and placed in the court’s drug program. He had been previously arrested for possessing firearms and, in 2016, for illegally riding a dirk bike.
The beating, however, is the most detailed account of violence at Frank Q. Jackson’s hands to date. It is significant not only because of Jackson’s relation to the Mayor — the younger Jackson lives with his grandfather in the Central neighborhood, and this relationship has undoubtedly insulated him from more serious consequences — but also because the city’s failure to seek justice for the victim represents another flagrant example of the administration not taking seriously violence against women.
The Mayor hired the violent abuser Lance Mason in 2017, a scandal that was revealed shortly before that year’s election but had marginal, if any, effect on the electorate. Even after Mason brutally murdered his ex-wife, Aisha Fraser, a year later, Jackson astonishingly stood by his hiring.
The story of the Frank Q. Jackson’s violent attack on an 18-year-old woman was culled from CMHA police reports and published in cleveland.com. It began at a gas station on E. 40th and Quincy.
Frank Q. Jackson turned around [in the truck] and punched her in the face several times, according to police reports. He choked the woman “profusely” with both hands around her neck, according to police. The woman told police she suffers from asthma and felt like she was going to lose consciousness, according to police reports.Police were promptly called. But as they questioned the victim, who identified Frank Q. Jackson as her attacker, Jackson returned to the apartment and drove slowly drove down the street, speeding away when police gave chase. His mother later did the same, driving slowly and threateningly by, and police noted that members of Frank Q. Jackson’s family “began to drive around the area.”The woman’s 16-year-old friend told police that she returned to the truck and found her friend gasping for breath while Frank Q. Jackson attacked her, according to police reports.
The girl said she tried to intervene but Jackson ordered her out of the truck, police reports say.
Frank Q. Jackson stopped and said he’d drop both the woman and girl off at an apartment building on East 49th Street. While driving to the apartment, he attacked the 18-year-old woman a second time, the report says.
At the apartment, Frank Q. Jackson dragged the 18-year-old woman out of the truck by her hair, across the grass and onto the sidewalk, police reports say.
He choked her again and punched her in the face and body, police reports say. He went back to the truck, grabbed a metal hitch and struck her several times in the left knee with it, police reports say.
The victim noted, though it was surely superfluous, that she feared retaliation. Days later, she said she would not press charges against her attacker.
Assistant City Prosecutor Aric Kinast, an 18-year-veteran in the office, declined to pursue the case despite the abundance of evidence. Cleveland.com quoted another prosecutor saying that pursuing cases of this sort, even without the victims cooperation, was common. He saw them “all the time,” he said. The case was additionally unusual in that it was never referred to the county prosecutor’s office, which handles felonies.
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This article appears in Sep 4-10, 2019.
It is time for the corrupt and inept Frank Jackson to resign — or be removed from office.
How is this guy getting away all this crap he must be untouchable shame on mayor Jackson
Isn’t there a mugshot of this guy that can be posted with the article? He sounds dangerous and I’d like to know who to avoid. Also, Jackson must go. I voted for him all three times and I’m tired of the lawlessness with which his family operates.
Again, Mayor Frank Jackson is a lying, thieving, thug that is only making his friends and family prosper until he gets ousted-then his wife will magically start a foundation which this completely uncaring ass will donate all his unused campaign funds, while Simultaneously all his goons that have been getting wealthy (through theft, bribery, and overtime) will also contribute large amounts to the Mrs. foundation. Poof, all of a sudden the new administration will reveal a huge deficit that was hidden under cooked books for the next honest mayor to have to deal with. They will obviously fail at the impossible mission of correcting the damage of the ponzy scheme, then be replaced by another lying, race baiting, Democrat that will start the whole process over again…. just to follow Mike Whites play book. The only difference between White and Jackson- Jackson is smart enough to at least make himself appear aloof for more plausible deniability!
Nepotism
This is absolutely pathetic to read about!!! If tax and Jackson had any ounce of dignity, he would resign immediately!!! But no, not him, Im sure hell run for a sixth term, and get voted in unanimously again!!!
So what we, the electorate need to do, is get a recall to vote Taxin Jackson out, along with his cohort, thief
Budish!!!
Until these crooks are finally removed from office, nothing will ever change around here except more crime, violence, and downright stealing of taxpayer money again and again!!!
Never thought I’d say this or agree with Mr. Allard on anything – but, I have to say – “Way to go, Sam!” and hope this only starts the swift downfall of Mayor Frank.
“He had been previously arrested for possessing firearms and, in 2016, for illegally riding a dirk bike. “
Hmmm… Dirk as in sharp pointy weapon or Dirk as in Diggler> : )
THIS BOY NEEDS TO BE PUT AWAY OR DIE! IF HE DID THAT TO MY DAUGHTER, I WOULDN’T GIVE A FUCK WHO HIS GRANDFATHER WAS….HE WOULD PAY!!!
JEFF HESS THAT IS HILARIOUS! ALTHOUGH, I’M QUITE CERTAIN THAT DIRK DIGGLER HAS HIM BEAT IN SIZE WHERE IT PERTAINS TO THE MOST IMPRESSIVE TOOL! LOL
‘Here’s the thing: Jackson was a consolation prize for the oligarchs, after Jane Campbell flamed out after one term…As long as Hizzoner does the bidding of our local oligarchs in all things, he’s basically got a pass to do anything else he wants, manipulate the machinery of city government all he wants…Mike White (he “allegedly” of the fists of fury with a few women himself) had the same deal…
If you wondered where the persecuters from the inquisition, and the witch hunters from Salem have gone, wonder no more. There here at the scene and at the PD/Cleveland dot com.
Righteous to the point of tyrannical. Wait until they become the persecuted by their own kind.
Oops Theyre here… not There here…
Dont persecute next for the typo.
Frank and His Rat Pack are as corrupt as his lying, thieving raping relatives and all the rest of the scumbags and douchebags they aid, abet, and protect. Isn’t fourteen years of this shit enough? Frank needs to GTFO.
Just because he is mayor jacksons grandson doesnt give him the right to do what he done, he should be punished just like everyone else. as i see it ( you do the crime you do the time ). but you know how that goes.