Article from Fox News by Chris Irvine.
A 17-year-old was shot three times and killed by a police officer in Pennsylvania while running away from a car that was pulled over in connection to a reported shooting in the area on Tuesday, officials said.
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Witnesses reported that a vehicle was seen fleeing the scene and an East Pittsburgh officer saw a vehicle matching the description nearby, which had ballistic damage to the rear window.
When the officer took the driver out of the car and handcuffed him, two passengers ran from the vehicle, at which point one of them, 17-year-old Antwon Rose, was shot dead by police.
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Selena Brooklin asked the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “Why did they have to shoot him when he is running away? What is the justification for that? There is no justification. There is no answer. You shot a man in the back while he was running away.”
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These are Pigs, not police. Real law enforcement officers do not do this sort of thing.
its ok to shoot at gang bangers unless you are a LIEberal then they have feelings..
Until ALL the evidence is in, I Willnot fault the LEO..1st report (YOURS) , denies him his INNOCENT until PROVEN GUILTY’,status..IF IT IS the way you report it,a cop SCREWED up..if that CAR WAS at the SCENE OF A SHOOTING,that KID was ,an ACCOMPLICE(so PRESUMPTION would be HE WAS ARMED); training, other factors,aomertimes,yesyou get a bad cop…TOO EARLY to tel.l
I know I can’t shoot a person fleeing from me or I go to jail, if I can’t they can’t!
Whichever sorry POS LEO shot the guy instead o chasing him needs a LONG prison term.
Fatal error in judgment, thought he could flee the scene and not get shot. Irrespective of justifiable shooting, the man is dead.
All he had to do was stop and he would have been alive! DON’T RUN FROM THE POLICE or suffer the consequences!