Nearly five years after he was left paralyzed from the waist down in an unlawful police shooting, activist Leon Ford Jr. is learning how to walk again. Over the years, Ford has shown his progress ...
WEBVTT JURY ACQUITTED FORD AN AGGRAVATED ASSAULT. BUT THERE'S A NEW TWIST. Reporter: THIS IS THE GAG ORDER IN PLACE SHOULD LEON FORD JR. BE RETRIED IN THIS COURTHOUSE BUT HIS DAD TOOK A RISK SPEAKING ...
WEBVTT INJURIES ARE NOT LIFE THREATENING. IN ROSS TOWNSHIP TONIGHT, I'M MATT BELANGER, PITTSBURGH ACTION NEWS 4. NEW INFORMATION TONIGHT, THEY QUESTIONED THE WITNESSES, THEY PLAYED THE SURVEILLANCE ...
Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Rekia Boyd, Walter Scott: These (and dozens more) are the names we know—the boys, girls, men and women brutally shot and killed by police. Police ...
Leon Ford rose to national prominence after he survived a police shooting in Pittsburgh nearly seven years ago. He became a leading voice for improved police-community relations, and even launched a ...
Fred Rabner, an attorney for Leon Ford, leaves the federal courthouse in Pittsburgh October 3, 2017. A jury began deliberations in Leon Ford’s federal civil trial against two Pittsburgh police ...
After years of battling in the courts, the city of Pittsburgh reached a multimillion-dollar settlement in a civil lawsuit with a man left paralyzed after an encounter with police. Mayor Bill Peduto ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) - An attorney for a black man shot by one of three white Pittsburgh police officers involved in a 2012 traffic stop told a federal jury his client was wrongly "intimidated," ...
"It's not going to be easy ... But it is possible to still have a good life." Sometimes the nightmares are about his father or son being shot by police. Other times, the nightmares are about him being ...
In November 2012, Leon Ford was pulled over by two Pittsburgh police officers. It was a routine traffic stop—at least, it was supposed to be, until one of the officers, who is white, mistook Ford, who ...
Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Rekia Boyd, Walter Scott: These (and dozens more) are the names we know—the boys, girls, men and women brutally shot and killed by police. Police ...