Lawmakers are joining calls for legislative change after Michael Rosfeld was acquitted in the fatal shooting of Antwon Rose.
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Pittsburgh, State College, lawmakers respond to fatal police shootings
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Lawmakers are joining calls for legislative change after Michael Rosfeld was acquitted in the fatal shooting of Antwon Rose.
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Police use of force at focus
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Lawmakers are joining calls for legislative change after Michael Rosfeld was acquitted in the fatal shooting of Antwon Rose.
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Pennsylvania lawmakers have vowed to make changes to state laws governing police use of force, citing the acquittal of ex-East Pittsburgh cop Michael Rosfeld of homicide charges for the fatal shooting of teenager Antwon Rose II. Here’s a 39-minute take from WESA’s The Confluence and PublicSource’s story about how Pittsburgh’s black community is trying to heal, legislative response notwithstanding.
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Meanwhile, in Armstrong County, a gas station owner’s billboard praising the case’s outcome and using a racial slur prompted Sunoco to dump its franchisee, according to this Times-Tribune story.
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And State College is still reeling in the wake of its first fatal police shooting. WPSU’s Emily Reddy has this feature on the funeral last weekend of Osaze Osagie, a 29-year-old black man shot and killed by police who allege he threatened them with a knife when they went to his apartment for a mental health check.
Best of the rest
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A driver enters the Pennsylvania Turnpike at a electronic interchange in Malvern.
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Pa. drivers are only a few years into an anticipated four decades of toll increases — and the rate hikes have inspired two companies representing independent truckers to sue the debt-saddled state Turnpike Commission ($11.8 billion, to be precise). More stats in this post from PennLive’s Charlie Thompson.
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A Pennsylvania cyberstalking case — in which a Bucks County teenager was targeted again by the same offender after he completed counseling ordered by the court for his first offense — has prompted some of the commonwealth’s congressional delegation to push for longer incarcerations in cases involving victims who are children. Tom MacDonald has more in this WHYY story.
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U.S. Steel faces $700,000 in fines for excessive emissions in the last half of 2018 that compromised air quality surrounding its Clairton plant, StateImpact Pennsylvania reports.
