PITTSBURGH (AP) _ Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and Police Chief Nate Harper say a city investigation has cleared three police officers who were found not to have committed crimes by the Justice Department in their interactions with a teen who claims he was wrongly beaten in January 2010.
Harper said Thursday that he's begun the process of reinstating the officers who were suspended shortly after 19-year-old Jordan Miles claimed he was roughed up and beaten for no reason.
Miles has said that he believes he was attacked because he was a black man walking in a high-crime area and that he ran from the undercover officers only because they did not identify themselves.
The officers said they initially thought that Miles had a gun which later turned out to be a soda bottle.
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