{"id":8017,"date":"2011-06-30T16:04:26","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8017"},"modified":"2011-06-30T14:20:39","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T18:20:39","slug":"naacp-wants-charges-against-cops-in-pa-beating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8017","title":{"rendered":"NAACP Wants  Charges Against Cops  In Pa. Beating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH &#8212; The NAACP is asking local prosecutors to bring charges against three white police officers who beat a black high school arts student last year in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>NAACP general counsel <strong>Kim Keenan<\/strong> says national and local leaders of the group met with Allegheny County District Attorney <strong>Stephen Zappala<\/strong> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keenan<\/strong> says <strong>Zappala<\/strong> agreed to review evidence gathered by federal authorities who opted not to bring charges against the officers involved in the January 2010 beating of then-18-year-old <strong>Jordan Miles<\/strong>. A <strong>Zappala<\/strong> spokesman confirmed the meeting, but declined further comment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Miles<\/strong> says he was chased and beaten by three plainclothes police officers who never identified themselves as police. The officers say <strong>Miles<\/strong> was acting suspiciously although he turned out to be unarmed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Miles<\/strong> is pursuing a civil suit against the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH &#8212; The NAACP is asking local prosecutors to bring charges against three white police officers who beat a black high school arts student last year in Pittsburgh. NAACP general counsel Kim Keenan says national and local leaders of the group met with Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala on Tuesday. Keenan says Zappala agreed [&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-8017","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\/8017","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=8017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}