{"id":112900,"date":"2026-02-13T09:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/112900\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T09:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:01:12","slug":"more-pittsburgh-police-officers-placed-on-leave-after-bar-fight-in-pleasant-hills-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/112900\/","title":{"rendered":"More Pittsburgh police officers placed on leave after bar fight in Pleasant Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/733c7f9aee6bcd2bb07b33b554fd7e19.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Three more Pittsburgh police officers have been suspended after a bar fight that happened last weekend in Pleasant Hills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/off-duty-pittsburgh-police-officers-involved-fight-bar-sources-say\/VZO7A4WTZJBHZBIJFSPTUIJCLM\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:PREVIOUS COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt; Off-duty Pittsburgh police officers involved in fight at bar, sources say;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">PREVIOUS COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt; Off-duty Pittsburgh police officers involved in fight at bar, sources say<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Thursday, city officials confirmed that the additional officers were placed on leave after more information about the incident came to light.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The city initially suspended only one detective.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sources tell 11 Investigates that the officers, who were off duty at the time, are members of the violence prevention unit and were out celebrating an officer\u2019s promotion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No criminal charges have been filed yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The number rises to a total of four officers who have been placed on paid administrative leave pending an internal investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three more Pittsburgh police officers have been suspended after a bar fight that happened last weekend in Pleasant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[52827,26752,73,75,74,43077,1385],"class_list":["post-112900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-bar-fight","tag-paid-administrative-leave","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pleasant-hills","tag-police-officers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}