PHOTOS & FULL TEXT: Activists deliver a People’s Indictment of the 3 officers that beat Jordan Miles
May 28, 2011 Leave a Comment
Jasiri X: Jordan Miles, Honor Student Brutally Beaten by Police, Speaks for the First Time
May 23, 2011 Leave a Comment
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette cartoon: “Pittsburgh Justice”
May 16, 2011 Leave a Comment
Rob Rogers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette blog—The U.S. Justice Department ended its investigation into the beating of a Jordan Miles without issuing any charges. The officers involved were reinstated to active duty without any real explanation of what happened. Police Chief Nate Harper said, “There is no question that Mr. Jordan Miles sustained physical injuries, but there is no evidence to show it was the result of wrongful conduct by the officers.”
That is not a satisfactory answer. Pittsburgh deserves better and so does Jordan Miles.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Protesters seek charges in Jordan Miles case
May 15, 2011 Leave a Comment
Ryan Brown, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette—About 90 demonstrators gathered Saturday at Pittsburgh police headquarters to repeat demands that the Allegheny County district attorney file charges against three police officers accused of beating Homewood teenager Jordan Miles.
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Raw footage: Justice for Jordan Miles Emergency Protest #2, Police HQ, 14 May 2011
May 15, 2011 Leave a Comment
Nigel Parry for Pittsburgh Indymedia—Raw Flipcam footage from the second emergency protest for Justice for Jordan Miles, called by the Alliance for Police Accountability. The footage (released as Creative Commons-Non-Commercial-Attribution) was shot near and in front of Police Headquarters in the Northside of Pittsburgh, on May 14th, 2011, from just after 1pm onwards.
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Vanessa German: open note poem to pittsburgh police chief
May 13, 2011 Leave a Comment
i see you on the news sometimes
you wear nice hats & nice coats
& your moustache is always trimmed nice
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Terez Miles’ statement, read out during the May 6th Emergency Protest in Downtown
May 11, 2011 Leave a Comment
Thursday, May 5, 2011—Yesterday’s decision by federal officials not to charge the three police officers who brutally beat Jordan came as a horrible insult, to Jordan, to me as his mother, and to everyone with eyes, a brain and common sense.
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Podcast: Special Rustbelt Radio report on Jordan Miles (extended 24 minute version)
May 9, 2011 Leave a Comment
The feature takes a look back at the 15 months since Jordan was beaten, the recent news that the federal government are not going to prosecute the cops for civil rights violations of Miles—which the Mayor and Police Chief are trying to spin as a blanket pardon.
Listen to speakers including Tim Stevens, Paradise Gray, Brandi Fisher, Jordan Miles, Terez Miles, Bria Adams, the city government and police, and a cast of tens of thousands.
Find out what happened on that night of January 12th, 2010, what myths persist in the media reporting, and what’s next for the Justice for Jordan Miles campaign.
Nigel Parry produced this extended 24-minute report about recent updates in the Jordan Miles case, for JusticeforJordanMiles.com, from a shorter piece for Rustbelt Radio‘s 9 May 2011 show.
Listen here:
Download here:
http://justiceforjordanmiles.com/media/audio/20110509-Rustbelt-JFJM-extra.mp3
End of podcast music by Pocket of Resistance: www.pocketofresistance.net
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Justice Dept.’s decision in Jordan Miles case increases distrust
May 8, 2011 Leave a Comment
What will mend rift between police and community?
Paula Reed Ward, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette—The news that the Department of Justice wouldn’t file charges against three Pittsburgh police officers accused of using excessive force against a Homewood teenager was disappointing for the teen and his family.
But for the community affected by it, the decision has served only to exacerbate a feeling of distrust of the police that existed even before the January 2010 incident.
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KDKA Video: Group Plans More Protests For Jordan Miles
May 6, 2011 Leave a Comment
KDKA—A group says they plan at least three more rallies for Jordan Miles, a teenager who was beaten by three Pittsburgh police officers. KDKA’s Harold Hayes reports.