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A vigil was held to remember Jim Rogers, who died in a hospital a day after police shocked him with a Taser.

The family of Jim Rogers and people who are supporting their push for justice met Thursday night on the same block where he was tased by police one year ago.

Activists and political leaders encouraged abortion-rights supporters to vote in November to preserve abortion access in Pennsylvania.

Although this was called a news conference, the group would not take questions from the assembled media.

The group Justice for Jim Rogers will hold a march on Saturday to remember him and call for the police officers involved to be criminally charged.

Rogers, a homeless African American man, was brutalized and tased while being arrested on October 13, 2021. He died the following day.

Results of an internal investigation into the death of Jim Rogers are announced by Pittsburgh's mayor and public safety director.

The day before, Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey offered remarks about Rogers' death, after revealing the termination of the nearly half a dozen officers involved.

Diamond Rogers said her uncle Jim Rogers played an important supportive role in her childhood. “Jim, he took me and (my sister) under his wing when we didn’t have a father figure in our lives,” said Diamond Rogers. “I don’t know what we would have done if it wasn’t for

The death investigation of Jim Rogers, a Black man tased by police who later died in custody, has family and activists calling for the officers involved