Overview
- Police opened an internal investigation and referred the case to a Pennsylvania State Police use-of-force expert and the city’s Citizen Police Review Board.
- The bystander video, obtained by local outlets, shows an officer striking Angel Bradford with a closed fist while she is in handcuffs.
- Police reports say officers were checking an abandoned building for drug use and alleged Bradford tried to hide a crack pipe, ran, resisted, scratched officers, and bit one of them.
- Court records list charges of aggravated assault, resisting arrest and tampering, and show Bradford remains in the Allegheny County Jail while her husband, Calvin Everette, was charged with obstruction and released on his own recognizance.
- Everette disputes the alleged bite, says his wife is autistic and recently left psychiatric care, and calls for the officer’s firing as the review board weighs whether the case is administrative or criminal.