east pittsburgh police department
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High School Antwon Rose Jr. Attended Faces Allegations of Brutal Police Abuse: Report
The video doesn’t allow for much interpretation. Taken in March 2015 at Woodland Hills High, the Pittsburgh school Antwon Rose Jr. attended, the footage shows a school police officer walking up to a black male student who had been sitting down, his hands fixed on his lap, a notebook under one hand, his entire posture…
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Officer Who Killed Unarmed Teen Antwon Rose II Charged With Homicide
Officer Michael Rosfeld, the East Pittsburgh police officer caught on camera shooting an unarmed 17-year-old in the back as he ran away, has been charged on one count of criminal homicide. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Rosfeld turned himself in at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday in City Court in downtown Pittsburgh, where he was granted an…
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Antwon Rose Jr. and When White Privilege Kills Black People
The funeral for Antwon Rose Jr. took place Monday morning at Woodland Hills Intermediate School in Swissvale, a borough that sits several miles east of Pittsburgh. Like the East Pittsburgh borough where Rose was killed, Swissvale is one of at least a dozen different intersecting municipalities that Pittsburgh’s eastern suburbs consist of. I went to…
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Funeral for Antwon Rose, Pittsburgh Teen Killed by Cops, to Be Held Today
The family of Antwon Rose II, the 17-year-old shot three times in the back by an East Pittsburgh Police officer last week, will lay him to rest on Monday. As CNN reports, protesters have demonstrated in downtown Pittsburgh since Antwon’s shooting on June 19, demanding accountability for Officer Michael Rosfeld, the cop who killed him,…