Antwon Rose Killing: Watch Hundreds Protest Cop Shooting PA Teen

PITTSBURGH, PA - Hundreds of people gathered in Downtown Pittsburgh Thursday for a two-hour protest against the fatal shooting of an unarmed 17-year-old high school student by an East Pittsburgh police officer.

Antwon Rose, a Woodland Hills High School student, was shot several times Tuesday as he and another person were fleeing from a traffic stop. Police stopped the vehicle because it matched the description of one involved in a shooting a short time earlier in a nearby municipality.

The officer who fired the shots, Micheal Rosfeld, was sworn in as an East Pittsburgh policeman about an hour before the shooting. He has been placed on administrative leave.

The protest featured angry chants, calls for black people to become more politically active and the creation of a county police review board. It also contained the reading of a poem Rose had written and tearful remarks by Leon Ford, who was shot and paralyzed in a 2012 traffic stop by Pittsburgh police.

Patch was at the protest and captured it on Facebook live. You can see it here:

Photo: Eric Heyl/Patch staff.

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