This happened probably 20 minutes from where I live, and it is getting a lot of attention in the news.
Here's the video:
From the link provided below, a car with three teenagers was pulled over by police because their car matched the description of a car that was just involved in a drive-by shooting. Earlier, a guy was shot in the abdomen from a person(s) in a car, and the victim returned fire on the vehicle. The vehicle the teenagers were driving was said to match that car, and it even had bullet holes in the back window.
So the police pull over the car to apprehend the occupants. As they were arresting the driver, the other two teenagers bailed out of the car and took off running. This is when the officer opens fire on them and fatally wounds one of them, 17-year-old Antwon Rose.
Reports say that Antwon was struck three times, all which appear to be in the back. No weapon was found on his person, but two guns were found in the car.
The other runner later turned himself in.
The officer who shot Antwon was sworn in as an East Pittsburgh cop only 90 minutes before the shooting, but from what I understand, he has been an officer since 2011 on other forces.
You can find more details in the link -
https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/201...g-antwon-rose-sworn-in-hours-before-shooting/
A protest has gathered in front of the East Pittsburgh Police Station.
Makes me wonder why the police officer couldn't have taken after them on foot instead of immediately opening fire. I guess since they pulled over a car that was believed to be involved with a shooting that happened earlier, they were quicker to deem the runners as dangerous. Even still, the cop who shot Antwon was in his 20s, so it's not like he was some old buck. He could have at least attempted to chase them rather than just gunning him down in the back. Even if they didn't catch them, I'd bet dollars to donuts that the driver they arrested would have cracked and given the cops their names and where to find them. As mentioned before, the other runner did eventually turn himself in.
It'll be interesting to see how this plays out after an investigation is done.
The mayor of Pittsburgh, Bill Peduto, came under some hot water when he made a tweet towards Shaun King when he hamfistedly was trying to tell him that East Pittsburgh was a different borough of its own and not within city limits.
He later apologized.
