'Justice For Jordan:' Students March Downtown After Classmate's Police Beating

Source: The Pittsburgh Channel (WTAE)

PITTSBURGH -- Pittsburgh Creative And Performing Arts High School students marched down Grant Street Tuesday morning, chanting "Justice For Jordan" in support of a classmate who was severely injured during a police arrest.

Jordan Miles, a violist in his senior year at CAPA, was walking to his grandmother's house on Tioga Street in Homewood on Jan. 11 when he said three plainclothes city police officers beat him severely.

"There's not a violent bone in Jordan's body," said CAPA Principal Melissa Pearlman, who told Channel 4 Action News that 36 children were granted early dismissal Tuesday with permission from their parents. Alumni and others from the community were also in the rally group.

The Pittsburgh police officers involved in the incident said they thought Miles, 18, was armed and that he resisted arrest, but it turned out that Miles did not have a gun and was only carrying a soda bottle. His lawyer said Miles didn't know the men were police officers and that he is a victim of racial profiling.

During the altercation, Miles said he ended up in the hospital with facial bruises, swollen eyes and his hair was ripped from his scalp.



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Good to see young people standing up for justice....

More on the story on this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=7565007&mesg_id=7565007

The police are out of control. They are acting like thugs and this needs to come to a screaching halt NOW.

Good for the community to step up

he or his family and friends will never be able to trust the police again..and why should they?
The names of the officers need to be made public..I agree.

people need to know who they are...if it takes an 'official' charge for that to happen, then the DA's office needs to get up off their asses

From the OP's link:

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WTAE Channel 4 Action News is not identifying the three officers because they have not been charged with any crimes, but Team 4 investigated and found that one of them is facing a lawsuit filed by a prisoner who claims to have been beaten.

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..............."small" ignored by the media events might just set off the pent up anger in the whole populace that shit is getting worse and no fucking body is doing a god damn thing about it. Oh, and by the way, THAT'S why we lost in Mass if any pundit out there really wants to know.

The head of city council is an infamous racist and some of the media is reporting the story in a way that there are "He deserved it" comments after the story.

See:

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By Mouse1949: I wonder if there would be a rally downtown by CAPA students if this one happened to be white?????????

By Mouse1949: And as far as it being a "bad neighborhood" it is of their own making.

By Mouse1949: It wasn't 2 AM it was 11 PM and the police announced that they were cops. He ran and fought the cops..nough said!

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http://kdka.com/local/jordan.miles.rally.2.1449352.html

Including their homes in the civil suit.

we will never hear about? I am still waiting for the internal report, just to be fair but I hope this kid gets justice.

to be the only ones with guns...

I hope this young man heals quickly, both physicaly and mentaly

And our resident cops seem to have vanished.