{"id":6423,"date":"2011-05-09T13:49:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T17:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6423"},"modified":"2011-05-09T12:01:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T16:01:32","slug":"pittsburgh-mayor-reinstates-policemen-that-allegedly-beat-innocent-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6423","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Mayor Reinstates Policemen That Allegedly Beat Innocent Victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH, PA &#8212; Three white Pittsburgh plainclothes police officers were reinstated after 15 months of suspension with pay for an alleged beating of 18-year-old <strong>Jordan Miles<\/strong>. The police officers thought Miles had a soda in his pocket and ripped out his dreadlocks during the brutality.<\/p>\n<p>Police Chief<strong> Nate Harper<\/strong> and <strong>Mayor Luke Ravenstahl<\/strong> announced that the Justice Department closed its investigation without filing civil rights charges against officers <strong>Richard Ewing<\/strong>, <strong>Michael Saldutte<\/strong> and <strong>David Sisak<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been determined there is insufficient evidence to prove or disprove the allegations made by <strong>Mr. Miles<\/strong>,&#8221; <strong>Harper<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p>The teen violinist&#8217;s mother,<strong> Terez Miles<\/strong>, said the city&#8217;s decision was &#8220;unfortunate because I think the officers are clearly guilty of wrongdoing.&#8221; She said federal authorities &#8220;went out of their way to say they didn&#8217;t think the police did anything right here or that <strong>Jordy<\/strong> did anything wrong. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH, PA &#8212; Three white Pittsburgh plainclothes police officers were reinstated after 15 months of suspension with pay for an alleged beating of 18-year-old Jordan Miles. The police officers thought Miles had a soda in his pocket and ripped out his dreadlocks during the brutality. Police Chief Nate Harper and Mayor Luke Ravenstahl announced that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}