“I don’t know that I have ever been more shaken in my entire adult life,” said Councilman Bruce Kraus, who represents South Side neighborhoods.
He called it a “challenging, difficult, unprecedented” time and urged calm.
“Respect this nation and who and what we stand for,” Kraus said. “We know that there are clearly risks involved in the next 7 to 10 days and maybe beyond. I just want to send the best to leadership that will guide us through.”
Councilman Ricky Burgess of North Point Breeze, who represents many of the city’s Black neighborhoods, called the riots “the beginning of the end” of white supremacy in America.
Bethani Cameron, pictured with her son Lochiel, hopes to challenge City Councilor Anthony Coghill in the May 18 Democratic Primary
The dust has yet on settle on the 2020 elections, but politicos are already looking ahead to the municipal elections of 2021, in which the mayor of Pittsburgh and four city council seats are up for grabs. And already at least one challenger, Bethani Cameron, says she intends to challenge City Council District 4 incumbent Anthony Coghill.
“We need leaders who are willing to wade into very complex problems,” Cameron said. “Because if these problems were easy to solve, we would have solved them.”