An appeals court has ordered Pittsburgh police to reinstate the officer involved in the tasing death of Jim Rogers.

Keith Edmonds was fired in 2022 but was reinstated two years later. The city filed an appeal , and in September of last year, a judge ruled that Edmonds could not get his job back . But now an appeals court ruled that Edmonds must be reinstated with full back pay.

"This is saying that he comes back on the job. As far as the Commonwealth Court goes, they're upholding the arbitrator's decision," Beth Pittinger, executive director of the Pittsburgh Citizen Police Review Board, said on Friday.

The Black Political Empowerment Project called the court's ruling an alarmingly misguided decision, saying there's overwhelming evidence of his violations, adding, "Edmond's

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