Court orders reinstatement with full back pay for officer fired after Jim Rogers tasing death

11 Investigates has learned that the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania issued an order reinstating former Pittsburgh police officer Keith Edmonds with full back pay.

Edmonds was one of several officers fired following an October 2021 incident in Bloomfield, where Jim Rogers was tased while being arrested over a stolen bike.

Body-camera footage shows Rogers, who allegedly stole a bicycle, with his hands up being tased by Officer Edmonds. He falls to the ground and is tased again. He then tries to run and is tased yet again. Rogers went into cardiac arrest and died at the hospital the next day…

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