Small-town Pa. mayor arrested for hospital protest
PITTSBURGH—A small-town mayor upset about the closing of a hospital in his community has been arrested at the hospital's corporate headquarters in Pittsburgh.Pittsburgh police say Braddock Mayor John Fetterman was charged Monday with defiant trespassing for refusing to leave the U.S. Steel Tower downtown.
The skyscraper houses the offices of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, which Fetterman has criticized for closing its money-losing hospital in Braddock.
The 41-year-old mayor tells KDKA-TV that he was arrested while carrying a sign asking UPMC to provide Braddock with an urgent-care facility while the old hospital is demolished.
Braddock is a town of 2,700 about 10 miles east of Pittsburgh.
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