Nightmare in Pittsburgh
Just imagine: you’re a teenager in Pittsburgh and three men approach you at night and begin to harass you. You run, thinking that you are being robbed. Soon after, you are caught and beaten savagely.
After your face is disfigured, the three undercover cops arrest you for running. They claim that a soda bottle you were carrying appeared to be a gun.
This exact situation happened to Jordan Miles last year in Pittsburgh. In a horrifying turn of events, the investigation against the undercover police officers was dropped. Not only did they avoid criminal prosecution – they were put back on the force with full pay. To add insult to injury, several Pittsburgh police officers even made T-shirts expressing support for the undercover cops under investigation.
Miles is now becoming the poster child for anti-police brutality campaigns. The movement has sparked protests in Pittsburgh calling for “Justice For Jordan.”
Here’s a quote from the exclusive Pittsburgh City Paper interview:
“I couldn’t believe everything that happened. I didn’t think it was real. I thought it was a dream. I was afraid to go outside for a long time, especially after dark. I didn’t want to be seen by anybody. My self-esteem dropped really low.
I have had nightmares for a long time after everything happened.”
Read the entire interview here.
There was no soda bottle. The cops made that up so they would be able to argue probable cause because they “saw a bulge” in Miles’ pocket. They also claimed a neighbor made a prowling complaint against Jordan, which was not true, resulting in all the assault charges *against* Jordan being dropped in court when the woman said she made no complaint and her son and Jordan hung out all the time. Much more information about this case can be found at justiceforjordanmiles.com. Thanks for posting this story.
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[...] one of Pittsburgh’s most egregious episodes of police brutality, unarmed high school student Jordan Miles was beaten beyond recognition. Since the attack, his family was awarded $180,000 in a civil suit. However, his family turned down [...]
Have you ever been to where this happened? Let me tell you it’s not main street,it’s one of the most prolific crack spots in the whole city. These cops took more guns off the street and saved way more kids lives in the process than any of these so called community activists. That night the woman told police she didn’t know jordan. He fought the cops. He was not disfigured, but one of those cops still isn’t back to work cause jordan kicked him and tore a ligament in his knee. The people from homewood know how it is and know the real deal that’s why you never see more than a handful of them at these rallies. The FBI unit that investigated this, their whole purpose is to hold cops accountable and they found them innocent that means a lot. I don’t blame jordan I’m glad he’s doing good and going to college. I blame all of the people who are gutless and refuse to do what should have been done, manipulative like Burgess and want to grab some attention, and those like the league of young voters who are foolish enough to believe them. You wernt there you probably never read the criminal complaint and you have never worked a day as a police officer. I welcome you all to do a ride along and open your eyes.
Unfortunately Jordan Miles just so happens to live in Homewood on that street. As if the police don’t run drugs and guns on the streets in the first place.
Young black males do not import, transport drugs in weight nor are there any black gun makers. We didn’t start the fire!
And YES, I have been there plenty of times. One of the same officers broke a black man’s eye socket after chasing him from the bar on the corner of Jordan’s block.