One-on-one interview with Antwon Rose's mother on anniversary of police misconduct database
It's been one year since state AG Josh Shapiro helped launch a database for police misconduct.
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Updated: 7:41 PM EDT Jul 14, 2021
It's been one year since state AG Josh Shapiro helped launch a database for police misconduct.
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Updated: 7:41 PM EDT Jul 14, 2021
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CAN SAVE LIVES AND HELP HONOR HER SON’S LEGACY. >> WE SAT DOWN RFO A ONE-ON-EON INTERVIEW WITH MICHELLE, WHO WORKED WITH THE PENNSYLVANIA ATTORNEY GENERAL ON A DATABASE FOR POLICE MISCONDUCT. AS SHE LOOKS AT HER DAUGHTER’S PENDANT, SHE THIS OFNKER H SON. IN 2018, A FORMER POLICE OFFICER KILLED THE UNARMED TEENAGER DURING A TRAFFIC SP.TO HE WAS LATER FOUND NOT GUILTY. >> I DON’T WANT ANOTHER MOTRHE TO FEEL THIS PAIN, AND WHATEVER IT TAKES TO DO THAT, I AM GOING TO DO. >> A DATABASE RFO POLICE MISCONDUCT WENT LIVE TODAY ON WHAT WOULD HAVE ENBE ANTOINE’S 21 BSTIRTHDAY. >> I KNOW ANID BELIEVE THAT HAD THIS DATABASE BEENN I EFFECT, NOT ONLY WOULD MY SON BE ALIVE, BUT THERE ARE SEVERAL OTHER PEOPLE WHO WOULD STILL BE IVALE, BECAUSE THE MAJORITY OF THE LIVES BEING LOST, WE FIND OUT ROU -- ARE TAKEN BY INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE BEEN PROBLEMATIC, NOT ONLY TO THE DEPARTMENT THAT THEY ARE IN, BUT TO THE DEPARTMENT BEFORE THAT. >> KENNEY OUTHGHT ABOUT A DATABASE WHEN SHE WORKED F AOR POLICE DEPARTMENT AND WAS PREGNANT WITH ANTWON. NOW, ON THE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF WHEN THE DATABASE BECAME LAW, STATE LEADERS AND PITTSBURGH POLICE CHIEF SCOTT SCHUBERT ARE BY HER SIDE. TE LAW REQUIRES BACKGROUND CHECKS F LORAW ENFORCEMENT BEFOREIR HING, AND THE DISCLOSURE OF EMPLOYMENT INRMFOATION BY LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES. ALTHOUGH KENNEY MISSES HER SON, SHE KNOWS SPEAKING UP ABOUT REFORM IS HER PURPE. >> THE LOSS OF ANTWON FOR THE PUBLIC IS A MOTHER LOSING HER SON AND HER PUSHING FOR CHAN. I THINK FOR ME ALL THIS HURT AND PAIN HAS TO BE GOD’S PLAN BECAUSE IT’S COMI FNGULL CIRCLE. >> SHAPIRO SAYS THE DATASEBA