From [HERE] No charges will be filed against three white Pittsburgh police officers who were accused of using excessive force in beating a black teenager, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. said at a news conference there isn't a prosecutable case against the officers. Jordan Miles was an 18-year-old student at the city's performing arts high school at the time of the 2010 beating. The undercover officers contend Miles ran and resisted after appearing to have a gun, but it was a soda bottle. Miles denied even having the bottle and claimed he was targeted simply because he was a young black man.

Zappala's announcement came a day after a county councilman suggested investigating possible conflicts of interests in the DA's office in cases involving citizens' claims of police misconduct.

Miles' lawyer, J. Kerrington Lewis, said he feels Zappala should have excused himself from the investigation long ago, because he represented the officers who beat the youth.