Several streets in Downtown Pittsburgh will be closed Saturday morning so crews can install new cooling towers on the roofs of EQT Place and One PPG Place. Public Safety spokesman Chris Togneri said roads closures will occur from 7-11 a.m., weather permitting. Togneri said the operation may be moved to
Charges are pending against a Pittsburgh man authorities said stabbed a teenager in Pittsburgh’s South Side neighborhood. Taylor Clark, 32, was apprehended after a street fight near the intersection of East Carson and South Seventh streets around 7 p.m. Tuesday, Pittsburgh Public Safety spokesman Chris Togneri reported. The victim, an
Screencap from video posted by Jay Yoder Morningside resident Jay Yoder after Pittsburgh Police demanded they drop to the ground on June 1, 2020. Jay Yoder, a resident of Pittsburgh’s Morningside neighborhood, was asked by protesters to be a medic for a Black Lives Matter demonstration that took place in East Liberty on June 1, 2020. They have experience as an international human rights observer, documenting conflicts in Colombia and the Middle East. Yoder documented and filmed the melee that occurred on June 1, when Pittsburgh Police fired tear gas, sponge rounds, and pepper spray at a group of about 100 marchers on Centre Avenue. Some were injured by the police projectiles, and several people, including Yoder, filed a class-action lawsuit against the city of Pittsburgh and the police as a result.
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Two people were hospitalized in stable condition after being struck by a vehicle in Pittsburgh’s Brookline neighborhood Friday evening.
Public Safety spokesman Chris Togneri said the pedestrians were walking along the 700 block of Brookline Boulevard around 5:45 p.m. when they were hit.
They told medics the crash gave them back, leg and head pain, Togneri reported.
The driver stayed on scene and cooperated with officers.
Police continue to investigate the incident. No further information was released.
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Pittsburgh’s SWAT team was called to an East Liberty apartment Sunday night after police say a woman became combative while officers tried to serve a protection-from-abuse order against her.
Pittsburgh Public Safety spokesman Chris Togneri said police responded to the home in the 5500 block of Baywood Street around 7:30 p.m. to serve the order. The woman, who was not identified, barricaded herself in her apartment and began throwing objects at officers, Togneri said.
The woman continued to throw objects after SWAT officers were called to the scene, Togneri said. Around 8:20 p.m., SWAT officers went into the apartment and took her into custody.