The country mourns the death of yet another black teen. Seventeen-year-old Antwon Rose was shot in the back by local police in East Pittsburgh while he was running away after being suspected of being involved in an earlier shooting.
Rose was in a Chevy Cruze on Tuesday (June 19) when the Allegheny County Police pulled him and two others over since it matched the description of a car involved in a shooting earlier that day, according to CNN.
Around 8:30 p.m. that night, someone had fired nine .40-caliber shots at another person in North Braddock borough, as reported by the Allegheny County Police. The target fired back and was later admitted to the hospital to be treated for his wounds. A witness described the vehicle to the police and at 8:40 p.m., police spotted a car that fit the description. Rose was in that car.
Once cops ordered the driver out of the car, Rose and another passenger ran, Allegheny County police said. At that point, an officer opened fire and struck Rose. He was later pronounced dead at the hospital.
The driver of the car was released by police, but they are still looking for the other passenger.
Allegheny County Police Superintendent Coleman McDonough stated that the police recovered two firearms from the car but Rose was unarmed at the time of the shooting. McDonough is confident the car was involved in the earlier shooting that day due to “ballistic damage to the rear window.”
The unnamed officer who shot Rose is now on administrative leave, according to the Allegheny County Police. He had been serving for years in other local departments but had been sworn into the Allegheny County Police earlier the same day he shot Rose.
The Hip Hop community has been saddened and angered over the tragic death and Nas (who released a song called “Cops Shot The Kid” on NASIR last week) has expressed his disgust with an Instagram post with the caption, “Whoever killed him needs the electric chair in front of his family.”
A protest was held Wednesday night in East Pittsburgh.
Check out other reactions from the Hip Hop community below.
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Nas should ether this piggah cop
Stay in school kids
It’s called a spoonerism son.
What if the cop was black and Taylor Swift said the same shit? Imagine the outcry
Once you blue you ain’t black no more
He didn’t need to be shot in the back. On the other hand, as a black man who just works and supports my family, I gotta say: I’m tired of the guns. I’m tired of teens and thugs in their 20s carrying around guns just to scare and intimidate their fellow black neighbors. It is not “for protection.” It is for props, and it’s sickening. The cops are corrupt, yes. But the moral code that permeates every ghetto is also corrupt. Feed our kids these guns, let them roam in groups of 4 or 5 all day, let them rob harass threaten shoot and kill other blacks… Then when a cop kills one of them, there’s this outcry and outrage. Stop playing y’all.
I can say this with legitimate moral authority because I’ve been black all my life, and working my whole adult life. Do you know how many times I’ve stared into the barrel of a gun held by another black man — supposed to be my neighbor? Over the stupidest shit. Oh, I looked at you. Oh, you don’t like the way I walk. Oh, you wanna take my cheap ass $40 computer. Dude, these people have these guns and won’t fight “the man,” just their own. It’s like the dude or chick who gets bossed around at work then comes home and takes it out on the kids.
Thats exactly how i feel. It’s sad that it ended the way it did for him but what if he was hit by a bullet from the other victim? Noone here would comment. “That’s how it is in the streets”. Can’t play like you above the law and cry when the ppl you directly influence fall victim to the lifestyle you portray. But since it was a cops bullet its cool to play activist.
Btw before this gets misinterpreted im not speaking on nas. Im referring to rappers like ti who have glorified a criminal lifestyle in their music.
Why in the fucking fuck do you run from the police knowing damn well shit like this happens almost every fucking day? Especially if you are innocent? I mean, RIP to the young man and fuck that cop, nobody deserves to meet their end like this, but these young black guys aren‘t exactly helping themselves either by pulling shit like this…
Ok. Let’s check the FACTS here. 1. There was a shootout. 2. A Guy was shot, and shot back at his assailants. 3. The cops were looking for a car with X amount of suspects in it. 4. The cops found a car that match the description of some ARMED suspects who had just shot someone. 5. There was “ballistic damage” to the back of the car, which the cops obviously saw when pulling the car over. 6. The suspects RAN form the car matching a shooting when pulled over. 7. There were guns in the car. SOUNDS LIKE ANOTHER GOOD SHOOTING TO ME. They may have planted the guns there, and created the ballistic damage etc, but squad cars have cameras and all the cops have body cams. R.I.P. to the kid and his family. He was young and made a stupid decision, like lots of us do at age 20. Unfortunately it cost him his life. I don’t get how people are going to judge a cop based on these facts. Seriously. If a cop pulsa you over and you run from the car, you’d honestly be shocked if they started shooting? GTFOH!
Not all cops have body cams. A lot of PDs don’t use them. And none of that shit matters. The kid was unarmed and running away when cops shot him in the BACK
If the kid was innocent he wouldn’t have fled. Period.
If that cock-sucking cop wasn’t an incompetent little scared bitch, he wouldn’t have shot. Period
This is the bottom line. Cops aren’t supposed to be jumpy and scared so that they lose control in a tense situation. If they are, they need to find different work.
Old Texas saying for someone who was shot in the back: “If you wanted to get shot in the chest, you should have ran toward me.”
“The country mourns the death of yet another black teen. ” and yet another bias article ignoring the facts. Great Journalism DX.
U are a lowlife
As usual people like you come with pejoratives rather than anything of value.
That teen had no business in the streets. Should have been at home doing home work.
Fuck Nas. That man has no backbone. He just buddied up with Kanye and his MAGA bullshit..now he wanna “take a stand” with us…GTFOH
Nah. He just worked with Kanye just like racist fucks like you wear Levi’s and say it’s just a jeans. It’s just music.
So what? I’m sure the entire cast and production crew of the new Jurassic World movie all had different political opinions, yet they still worked together to make the film. Just shut up and enjoy the entertainment.
“White kids are brought in alive
Black kids get hit with like five” – Nas.
Nas speaks the reality of the average Joe. There is a reason the cop is on administrative leave. Allegheny County Police felt that outcome could have been a better one, not a death.
He’s on administrative leave because he fired his gun…you some kind of retard or something? Wait…you really think cops can just go around shooting people, justified or not, and not be put on administrative leave? You listen to the wrong people man. In these days you think a cop would willingly sacrifice everything they worked for and their family to notch a black kid on their belt…get over yourselves. I’m still waiting for the instance where there wasn’t a crime in progress during these incidents. A black kid gets shot in the hood by another black kid and nobody seen nothing…gets shot by a cop and there’s witnesses lined up around the corner with cell phone footage…what a joke
Damn, cop just shot the kid. Who knows the kid probably was just riding along and didn’t participate in the crime.
Who’s really checking for Nas’ perspective on this issue after this new trash album he put out with the pseudo intellectualism. He’s devolved into a demagogue. Sad to see it come to this with him…And poor way for the kid to see his end but there’s just too much thuggery in black communities these days. These kids are living wild. The boy deserved a trial and not execution by police officers. But he should have never been in the streets living reckless in the first place.
YOU ARE A GOVERNMENT STOOGE. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING STANDING UP FOR THESE COPS? TOO MUCH THUGGERY?? ARE YOU 85 years old? People like you should be sterilized there is no need for your miserable fuckboy lineage to continue PLEASE DO NOT HAVE CHILDREN
Wasn’t Nas a raging alcoholic who beat up his wife???
Wasn’t your father also?
He should be calling for the electric chair for his new album…damn Nas you disappointed me with that trash. I was so excited for that shit…Beyonce spit better shit on Love is Everything
I was disappointed too, there were no good songs on that.
I don’t fuckin get it. What is wrong with u Americans? Do u NOT want people who shoot guns out of their cars be put in jail or get dead? They shoot at somebody, they drive around the town after that like nothign happened, they get pulled over and they fuckin run. They had weapons inside their car for fucks sake. It could be u, could be ur family member who they shoot next. Do u want armed scumbags jus riding around in the streets of ur cities? This ridiculous mass hysteria #blackmatter or whatever in ur country is out of control. Yall need to calm down for a second and just think. Fuck Nas and all those pretentious fucks who indulge this massive fuckin circlejerk without even thinking or trying to analyze facts.
Nas supporting Kanye ain’t just music…this is helping trump’s racist agenda, boosting his approval rating and hurting our community..both men have turned there back on where they came from…FUCK NAS. FUCK KANYE.
Fk Up
Seriously go read up on this kid. He was a GOOD kid… He wasn’t out running the streets. He volunteered he hung out at a skate park and the car that they thought was the same one involved in the earlier shooting was a ride share car! The driver didn’t know the boys! The cop had no body camera AND no camera in his vehicle… which is hard to believe. I’m from Pittsburgh so yea I’ve followed it. Before anyone wants to say he’s a young thug running the streets go find out who he really was! Smh
You are incorrect sir. He had a body cam and there was a dash cam in the vehicle. Get your story straight please.
So the cop killed somebody else innocent and right while this George Floyd shit is going on. Shocking but the racists believe all black people are by default guilty. If Becky and Bryce were in a car and one of them ran and got shot in the back fleeing because they were probably scared, there we be some whole different energy for why that happened.
The headline should be ‘Nas Calls For Electric Chair For Cop Who Shot Antwon Rose After He Tried to Runaway’
Shut up bitch. Suck that blue dick
I think I join with the vast majority of readers of this article by saying, who the hell is Nas?
This is fucked up and should not have happened. Its sad all the way around. But Ive got a question… At what point do we decide that it’s best to “NOT RUN”. Promote not running for a change and see how things change. Me, Id lay my fat white ass on the ground with my arms straight out to my sides and scream, IM NOT RESISTING, IM NOT RESISTING. Just a thought, try not running for a change.
youll still get shot dummy
Someone finally said it….
Here’s the issue. The cop shouldn’t have shot him in the back. But the teen shouldn’t of run. Only reason you run is if you’re guilty but he did not deserve to die over it. The guns and shit are getting out of control. Maybe he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but choose better friends.
-dick eater
Doesn’t matter. They’re supposed to use deadly force only when they’re in danger, so the fuck they shooting anybody in the back for? You think he was going to flee the country with his million dollars and his private jet or some shit? Ignorant if you did this they wouldn’t have shot you excuses is the main problem that allows this shit to keep happening.
have you driven a Chevrolet cruze? my god drive at a snails pace.
The Cop was wrong. Many teens were in that car. There is no proof that the kid was the one shooting out the car earlier
NAS remember that song ‘what goes around?’ It will catch up to the cops. Shit will also catch up to the rioters and looters.
The cop was wrong. There is proof the kid was the one shooting from the car earlier.
Nas remember the song ‘what goes around?’ Karma will catch up to the cop and to all the rioter and looters
I thought they’re not supposed to use deadly force unless their lives are in danger. Story changes every time they do this shit.
Years ago C-Murder killed his own fan, a 16 y.o. unarmed boy. Should he be in electric chair as well? Or does it apply only to white people? Or only for cops? Or only for white cops? Fuck having a gun. You Americans cannot think.
why are we holding “c-murder” to the same level of accountability as a police officer who is supposed to serve and protect the community, even the people they think are criminals because they deserve due process like everyone else. and isn’t c-murder in jail for life ? and from what i know of that case he may not have even have shot that kid. thats the problem with some of your Europeans. you look for any and every reason to justify brutalizing black people and wonder why the country is burning. you wouldn’t even have the courage to step outside your home and spread your ignorance to anybody of color because you know right now at this moment you will get the shit smacked out of you.
This happened in 2018. The article needs to be more clear. Nonetheless, this was an absolute tradgedy. The cop was acquitted. No justice once again. Antwon was a good kid who was just hanging out with some sketchy friends. Most of us have done the same at least once in our lives. He didn’t deserve a bullet in the back…