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http://www.ibtimes.com/pittsburgh-shooting-teen-dead-traffic-stop-police-2692762

Teen Dead In Traffic Stop By Police

A teenager was shot dead and another man was injured after a shooting in North Braddock, Pittsburgh, on Tuesday night.

Police officials received several calls reporting that shots were fired in the 800 block of Kirkpatrick Avenue around 8:20 p.m. EDT, local news station WPXI reported. Allegheny County officials found a 22-year-old man suffering from gunshot wounds when they reached the scene. He was taken to hospital and released after the treatment.

A short time later, there was a traffic stop on Grandview Avenue and Howard Street in East Pittsburgh after a silver vehicle with a shot-out window, which matched the description of the suspects’ vehicle, was noticed.

Allegheny County Police Superintendent Coleman McDonough said police tried to pull over the car but the people inside got out and fled the scene. A 17-year-old boy was shot in the back when he tried to flee. He died later at McKeesport Hospital, CBS Local reported.

Officials said the driver of the car was taken into custody but other occupants of the vehicle fled the scene.

“17-year-old shot and killed by East Pittsburgh Police Officer after fleeing traffic stop. Police actively searching for other suspect who ran away,” WPXI reporter Mike Holden tweeted.

Local news station Action News 4 quoted a witness as saying she saw cops pull over the vehicle and walk up to the car guns drawn. Police opened fire after two passengers who were told to get out of the car tried to flee.

A video taken by a bystander shows the police firing three shots at two people trying to escape a traffic stop. The two ran away from a grey car and ducked as cops’ fired three shots in a row.

A helicopter was provided by PA State Police to search from the air. The County Police Department’s Homicide Unit will be investigating both the incidents.

“I've now been contacted by dozens of people from the East Pittsburgh area to say that police just shot two teenage boys in the back,” civil rights activist Shaun King tweeted.

“Witnesses report that race soldiers in Pittsburgh shot a couple of Black teens in the back who were fleeing for their lives from them,” Tariq Nasheed, a media personality, tweeted.

Further information about the deceased will be provided after a formal identification by the Allegheny County Office of the Medical Examiner, Holden tweeted. McDonough would turn up himself to give a description of the incident.
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Infamous114 said:
Goddamn, that video was fucked up. What's the department's excuse for this murder?
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Basically they’re going to try and paint the kid as a “thug” who deserved it.. Because he was in a car that matched the description of a car that was seen at a recent shooting.. That happened close by.. Also the County police let the driver who they arrested go after questioning.. Even though they found 2 guns in the car.. So most likely the police are going try to say the two guns belonged to deceased kid and the nigga who is on the run right now...
 
https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/06/20/east-pittsburgh-police-shooting-antwon-rose-protest/

Protestors March, Rally Outside East Pittsburgh Police Station In Response To Antwon Rose’s Death

EAST PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A large protest, rally and impromptu march formed outside of the East Pittsburgh Police station Wednesday evening, following the police-involved shooting death of 17-year-old Antwon Rose.

The gathering is a rally in support of Rose’s family. There was praying, chanting, marching and calls for an end to violence and police brutality.

The North Braddock and Forest Hills police departments have been called into to provide backup.

KDKA’s Kym Gable reports that emotions are running high.

Rose’s shooting death was caught on video by nearby residents. It all started when police were called to a shooting Tuesday night in North Braddock.

A short time later, police spotted what they believed was the car seen fleeing the scene on nearby Grandview Avenue in East Pittsburgh. The car had bullet holes in the rear windows.

Police pulled it over for a traffic stop.

While an East Pittsburgh police officer was detaining the driver, two passengers ran from the car, including Rose.

The officer opened fire and Rose was struck by multiple rounds.

Police found two weapons inside the vehicle, but Rose was unarmed.

The officer has been placed on paid administrative leave pending the results of the investigation.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/us/pittsburgh-police-shooting.html

Unarmed 17-Year-Old Fatally Shot as He Ran From East Pittsburgh Police

An unarmed 17-year-old boy was shot and killed by the East Pittsburgh police on Tuesday night as he tried to flee a traffic stop, law enforcement officials said on Wednesday.

The teenager, Antwon Rose II, was a passenger in a car that had been pulled over because it matched the description of a vehicle that fled an earlier shooting in which a 22-year-old man was wounded, the Allegheny County Police Department said in a statement.

A video that recorded the fatal shooting and was posted on Facebook shows two people running from police vehicles as three shots are fired. One of the people, later identified as the 17-year-old, appears to fall to the ground.

“Why are they shooting?” the woman recording the video says. “All they did was run and they’re shooting at them!”

The Allegheny County Police Department, which is investigating the encounter, said that two firearms were found on the floor of the car. When asked if the teenager was found with a weapon on his person, Coleman McDonough, the department’s superintendent, said he was not.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Wednesday quoted Mayor Louis Payne of East Pittsburgh as saying that the officer who shot Antwon was hired in mid-May and had been formally sworn in hours before the shooting.

In a statement on Wednesday night, S. Lee Merritt, a lawyer representing Antwon’s family, said: “We know very little about the circumstances surrounding his death at this early stage. We must emphasize that rumors of him being involved in a separate shooting are unsubstantiated. We know that he was not armed at the time he was shot down, that he posed no immediate threat to anyone, and that, significantly, the driver of the vehicle he occupied was released from police custody.”

On Wednesday evening, dozens of people protested outside the East Pittsburgh Police Department, chanting, “No justice, no peace!” Some carried signs that said, “Justice4Antwon” and “#BlackLivesMatter.”

Those who knew Antwon described him as bright, lively and funny. He was a senior at Woodland Hills High School who was expected to graduate at the end of the year, the superintendent, Al Johnson, said in an interview on Wednesday.

“He was an excellent student,” Mr. Johnson said, adding that Antwon was taking Advanced Placement classes.

With Antwon’s death, he said, “we’ve lost four students to gun violence” over the past school year.

Kim Ransom, the owner of Pittsburgh Gymnastics Club, where Antwon worked for about a year, recalled the sweltering day in 2015 that he interviewed to work at the club as an instructor.

“He brought his typed-up résumé and he was wearing a full three-piece suit with his shiny shoes and he was sweating profusely,” she said.

She had never seen someone arrive at the club so formally dressed for an interview.

“I just thought it was very cute. I think he was 14 at the time,” she said. “Someone in his life must have been guiding him in the right direction.”

He got the job and began coaching children in an after-school program and other classes.

“Everybody loved him here,” she said. “He was very mature.”

“I feel like it’s important for people to know that he was Antwon,” she said. “He’s not a statistic, he’s Antwon.”

The traffic stop on Tuesday that led to the deadly shooting occurred after multiple 911 calls earlier in the night reported a shooting in North Braddock, Pa., that had wounded a 22-year-old man in the abdomen, the police said. He was treated at a trauma center and later released.

Investigators said a gunman in a passing vehicle had fired nine .40-caliber rounds at the 22-year-old, who returned fire.

The 911 callers provided a description of a vehicle they saw fleeing the scene, the police said, and an East Pittsburgh officer saw a similar vehicle, a silver Chevrolet Cruze that appeared to have ballistics damage to its rear window.

“I’m very confident that that was the vehicle involved in the shooting,” Superintendent McDonough said.

The officer stopped the car at 8:40 p.m. and took the driver into custody.

“While he was putting the driver into handcuffs, two other occupants ran from the car,” the Allegheny County police said. An East Pittsburgh officer started shooting, striking the 17-year-old “several times.”

The teenager was taken to U.P.M.C. McKeesport hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:19 p.m., Superintendent McDonough said.

“We believe he was hit three times,” he added. “He was hit in various places on his body.”

The driver of the car was later released after being interviewed.

“At the time we did not feel that charging was called for,” Superintendent McDonough said.

The police are still searching for the second person who ran from the officers. Superintendent McDonough asked that he turn himself in “so that he can give a comprehensive description of what occurred this evening,” the police statement said.

The officer who shot the teenager has been placed on administrative leave, officials said.

Mayor William Peduto of Pittsburgh said in a statement, “This is a devastating situation and I am saddened for Antwon Rose and his family.”

Gisele Barreto Fetterman, whose husband is the mayor of Braddock, Pa., said on Facebook that Antwon had volunteered at the Free Store, an organization she created that gives away surplus and donated items to those in need. When he was 14, she wrote, “and only a few weeks into summer vacation,” he asked about volunteering at the Free Store, and he “was scheduled to return this summer.”

Reached by phone on Wednesday, Ms. Fetterman recalled Antwon’s politeness when he would stop by to help on Saturday mornings. “He would always call me Ms. G or Ma’am,” she said.
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Apparently 3 guns were in the car...

Making the felon law in the officers favor.

Car had bullet holes and 3 guns.

So far this is looking to be.... "Fair"


I aint saying it makes sense, Im saying the cards have already been stacked against them. Especially if they were the one that commited the drive by.
 
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