PITTSBURGH

Protests, shooting follow verdict after cop cleared

The father of a slain black teenager pleaded for peace Saturday after the acquittal of a white police officer triggered an apparent retaliatory shooting at the defense attorney’s office and touched off protests in the streets of Pittsburgh.

The verdict late Friday in the deadly shooting of 17-year-old Antwon Rose II angered his family and civic leaders and prompted hundreds of people to gather Saturday afternoon at an intersection called Freedom Corner in the Hill District neighborhood.

“It’s very painful to see what happened, to sit there and deal with it,” Rose’s father, Antwon Rose Sr., told the crowd. “I just don’t want it to happen to our city no more.”

Early Saturday, five to eight shots were fired into the building where attorney Patrick Thomassey works, police in nearby Monroeville said. No one was hurt. Thomassey represented former East Pittsburgh police Officer Michael Rosfeld against a charge of homicide for shooting Rose as the unarmed teenager ran from a traffic stop in June. will meet with officials in Washington starting April 3, Sanders said. than 40 oil tankers, container ships and other craft were either trying to move south out of the channel or north toward awaiting terminals, according to Coast Guard petty officer Kelly Parker. Island in August. He was placed on administrative leave when he was swept up in the nationwide admissions scheme.

[JENS MEYER/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS] Cosplayer “Kasan,” dressed in the fantasy costume “Rain Cloud,” performs during the Manga Comic Convention at the Leipzig International Book Fair in Germany on Saturday. Local and international cosplayers from as far away as Japan come together each year to celebrate all things anime, manga and comic-related, a reviewer said.