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PITTSBURGH – The estate of a deceased man, who was tasered nine times by a Pittsburgh police officer due to being initially considered a suspect in a bicycle theft and who later died from his injuries, is now suing the City of Pittsburgh and the officers involved in the incident.
The five officers fired in the death of Jim Rogers are now fighting that decision.
The estate of a man who died in October a day after being tased by Pittsburgh police filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit Monday against the city and the officers on the scene that day. The complaint, filed by James Frierson, who is serving as the administrator of Jim Rogers’
A spokesperson for Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey says the filing of a lawsuit will allow the city to turn over police bodycam video to the Rogers family.
Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey called for police reform after the taser death of Jim Rogers, a Black man, 54, by five police officers.