Twin probes scrutinize 2nd violent Pittsburgh police arrest Downtown

Pittsburgh’s Office of Municipal Investigations and the independent Citizen Police Review Board are investigating a city police officer’s use of force against a handcuffed woman during a Downtown arrest, officials confirmed Wednesday.

Police said they were dispatched around 4 p.m. Friday to the intersection of 10th Street and Penn Avenue, where a woman — later identified as Tamika Depts, 51 — was having chest pains.

Authorities are offering few details about the physical confrontation that followed among Depts, a pair of paramedics and at least one Pittsburgh police officer…

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