Photo: Tim Murray Alex Horell Alex Horell lost his right eye last year. During a Black Lives Matter protest in Downtown Pittsburgh on May 30, 2020, Pittsburgh Police fired a less-lethal projectile either a rubber bullet, a bean bag, or a sponge round at Horell, striking him in the face. Horell, who lives in Pittsburgh s Morningside neighborhood, believes it was a rubber bullet, after initially thinking it was a beanbag. “I really distinctly remember being hit, that is what I really remember,” says Horell, who says he blacked out momentarily after being struck by the object. “Then I remember people shouting ‘Man down!’ and not realizing that it was about me. I remember people looking at my face coming to, like they were looking at a dead person. That is a pretty vivid memory.”
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The Pittsburgh Bureau of Police released the department’s annual report on Tuesday, a 169-page document giving a breakdown of everything from the race and gender of the city’s victims and offenders to the number of lawsuits filed and settled against the department and individual officers.
Chief Scott Schubert called 2020 a “challenging year on many levels.”
“But every challenge provides an opportunity,” Schubert said in a statement. “I believe we have an opportunity now to reevaluate and reconfigure how we think and operate as an organization and profession.”
Recently the Animal Welfare League contacted
The Daily Sun with news that the Charlotte County man had donated $166,000 to the no-kill shelter.
But he s also given large sums of money to other charities, including Shriners Hospitals, St. Jude Children s Research Hospital, Mutts with a Mission, which provides service dogs for veterans, wounded warriors, law enforcement and first responders, and Paws for Purple Hearts, whose veterans train service dogs for other veterans.
Displaying a badge and pin from the service dog charities, Bonenberger said those artifacts mean more to him than just about anything else.
He also said there are charities with similar names, and before he donates, he checks out the nonprofit s status to know exactly where the money goes.
Pittsburgh police reform task force member, Pittsburgh activist discuss improving policing
“It is not enough. We have to recognize that we’re on a moving process, that we’re on a journey towards what will be better. It’s not finished. The verdict doesn’t finish it. Share Updated: 6:15 PM EDT Apr 21, 2021
Pittsburgh police reform task force member, Pittsburgh activist discuss improving policing
“It is not enough. We have to recognize that we’re on a moving process, that we’re on a journey towards what will be better. It’s not finished. The verdict doesn’t finish it. Share
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Pittsburgh police chief, Pittsburgh mayor release statements after Derek Chauvin convicted in George Floydâs death
Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer, has been convicted of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. Share Updated: 9:46 PM EDT Apr 20, 2021
Pittsburgh police chief, Pittsburgh mayor release statements after Derek Chauvin convicted in George Floydâs death
Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer, has been convicted of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. Share Updated: 9:46 PM EDT Apr 20, 2021
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