Leon Ford donated clothing he wore on the night he was shot to the Heinz History Center, calling it a “symbol of a trauma” and of “the healing, redemption and reconciliation that is possible and is already transpiring” in Pittsburgh.
A decade after he was shot by police, Leon Ford hopes to prompt new conversations about public safety by donating the clothes he wore that night to the Senator John Heinz History Center. Ford was pulled over on Nov. 11, 2012 for a routine traffic stop but left the scene gravely wounded after taking four bullets to the chest and, since then, has never regained the use of his legs…