Impact of George Floyd s death, Derek Chauvin s trial in Pittsburgh Share Updated: 8:05 PM EDT Apr 19, 2021 Share Updated: 8:05 PM EDT Apr 19, 2021
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Show Transcript THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD AND THE TRIAL OF FORMER POLICE OFFICER DEREK CHAUVIN HOLDS INTENSE INTEREST FOR PITTSBURGH OR TIM STEVENS OF THE BLACK POLITICAL EMPOWERMENT PROJECT. IT’S JUST DIFFICULT. SO IMAGINE THAT THIS MAN COULD GO FREE. THAT THEY COULD DEFEND. ANYONE HAVING THEIR KNEE ON ONE’S NECK. AND SHOULDER OR NINE AND A HALF MINUTES PITTSBURGH POLICE CHIEF SCOTT SCHUBERT SAYS THE CITY IS PREPARING FOR THE IMPACT OF THE VERDICT. UNFORTUNATELY UNFORTUNATELY ON TOP OF THE TRIAL HAVE INCIDENTS THAT HAVE OCCURRED THAT JUST FURTHER A ROAD THE TRUST THAT THE COMMUNITY HAS FOR THE POLICE AND STEVENS SAYS IN ADDITION TO LOCAL AND NATIONAL PROTESTS IN THE WAKE OF THE KILLING OF GEORGE FLOYD THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF HIS DEATH HAVE BROUGHT A MOVEMENT FOR LOCAL STATE AND NATIONA
Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
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It’s not unlike the housing market throughout many communities in the Beehive State, where buyers often need to offer between $20,000 and $50,000 above asking price to even get their bid considered.
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Veteran civil-rights activist Tim Stevens says he didn t authorize his appearance in this attack ad.
The first real attack ad of Pittsburgh’s mayoral campaign aired by the kind of outside-spending group that local politicos have been expecting landed this week. And one of the people feeling stung by it isn’t even a candidate.
“We felt like our credibility was at stake,” said Tim Stevens, a longtime Black civic leader and founder of Black Political Empowerment Project, after seeing himself appear in an ad attacking Bill Peduto.
Stevens appears for about two seconds in the spot, created by a union-backed committee called Pittsburgh Justice for All.” Though he is not named in the spot, he can be seen asking “for whom is [Pittsburgh] most livable?” a statement Stevens says was excerpted from a 2019 press conference on health outcomes for Black women in the city. The ad strings that together with news clips and newspaper headlines to conclude “After eight years
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