Deliberations resume at black art student's trial
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A federal jury has resumed deliberations in the civil rights trial of a black art student who says three white Pittsburgh police officers wrongfully arrested and beat him.
Jurors in the case of 22-year-old Jordan Miles returned to court Monday for a second day of deliberations.
Miles says officers David Sisak, Michael Saldutte (sal-DOO'-tee), and Richard Ewing confronted him in January 2010 while he was walking to his grandmother's house to spend the night. He says they assumed he was a drug dealer because he was black and had dreadlocks.
The officers say they got rough with Miles because he fought with them while they mistakenly thought he had a gun.
At the time, Miles was an 18-year-old performing arts high school senior.
