Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: City police must divulge more details about cases

Council measure stems from teen’s 2010 encounter

Joe Smydo, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette—After 18 months of debate, including one meeting at which the police union president performed a pat-down on the city’s top legislator, Pittsburgh City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a bill requiring the police department to share more information about stop-and-frisk encounters and other hot-button activities.
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POSTPONED: Sat, July 23rd: “Joshua” March around the Courthouse with Churches

NOTE: The July 23rd rally has been postponed due to a high Heat Index and a large amount of elderly and young participants.

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Please join the Alliance for Police Accountability and several religious congregations as we symbolically tear down the walls of injustice and demand justice for Jordan Miles:

Saturday, July 23
1pm
Assemble in Market Square

We will march to the courthouse and circle the courthouse several times to bring down the walls of injustice as in the battle of Jericho. We will show D.A. Zappala that the police who brutalized Jordan Miles must stand trial.

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MUSIC VIDEO: “Jordan Miles” by Jasiri X

JORDAN MILES: Jasiri X Addresses Pittsburgh’s Latest Episode of Police Brutality


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Video: Bret Grote speaks at Justice for Jordan Miles rally, Pittsburgh, 25 June 2011

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Video: Renee Wilson speaks at a Justice for Jordan Miles rally at Freedom Corner

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Video: Paradise Gray speaks at Justice for Jordan Miles rally about today’s Poplawski trial

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Council delays action on ‘stop-and-frisk’ bill

Joe Smydo, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette—Pittsburgh City Council, the city police department and community activists will have the next month to find common ground on a controversial police accountability bill that would require officers to file a report on every “stop-and-frisk” encounter with a pedestrian.
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WTAE: NAACP Says DA Promises To Review Jordan Miles

NAACP Meets With Allegheny County D.A. To Talk About Teen’s Beating By Police

Representatives from the national and local chapters of the NAACP met with Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala on Tuesday to discuss the Jordan Miles case.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: NAACP officials meet, ask DA to prosecute 3 officers in Miles case

Torsten Ove, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette—Officials of the national and local NAACP met yesterday with Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. to ask him to prosecute three Pittsburgh police officers in the Jan. 12, 2010, beating of Jordan Miles in Homewood.
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KDKA Video: NAACP Meets With DA On Jordan Miles Case

Representatives of the NAACP and other community groups met with district attorney Stephen Zappala about charges in the Jordan Miles case.
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