From [HERE] Two more Pittsburgh police officers are expected to testify in their own defense at the federal civil rights trial of a lawsuit brought by a young black man who claims he was wrongfully beaten and arrested in January 2010.

Officers Richard Ewing and David Sisak are expected to testify Monday. Those officers as well as Michael Saldutte (sal-DOO'-tee), who testified last week, have acknowledged using force to arrest Jordan Miles, who was then an 18-year-old senior in the city's performing arts high school, but deny it was inappropriate.

Miles has sued claiming he was stopped for no reason then beaten when he ran away and struggled with police. But Miles says he did that only because the white plainclothes officers didn't identify themselves as police and he thought he was being robbed. Today, the nearly all white jury (1 black man, no Latinos) were told that Moutain Dew bottles look like guns and his braids were not pulled out by cops but came out when his hair hit snow covered bushes. This could only make sense to a racist mind. Please believe if a 17 year old white girl or boy was beaten to the point of brain damage by black cops it would be game over. The mainstream media is playing it out of course. White police , white prosecutors and white jurors... should we expect white supremacy or justice? Silly media accounts follow...[MORE]