A candlelight vigil was in Friendship Park to honor Jim Rogers on the first anniversary of his death. Rogers died less than 24 hours after Pittsburgh Police officers tased him eight times, and advocates continue to call for the officers involved to be charged.
A Wilkinsburg police officer punched a protester to the ground during a demonstration against police brutality on April 16. The group of around 20 people.
Diamond Rogers said her uncle Jim Rogers played an important supportive role in her childhood. “Jim, he took me and (my sister) under his wing when we didn’t have a father figure in our lives,” said Diamond Rogers. “I don’t know what we would have done if it wasn’t for