Anti-war protestors fault city police (Pgh, PA)

[corporatemedia]

Monday, August 22, 2005

By Pohla Smith, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette



City police used excessive force when they used stun guns and pepper spray to break up an anti-war demonstration in Oakland on Saturday, members of the protesting group charged yesterday.

"Right now we're demanding an investigation," said David Meieran, a member of the Pittsburgh Organizing Group, which protested outside an Army recruiting station Saturday morning. About 30 to 50 people marched from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History to the recruiting post near Forbes Avenue and Atwood Street. <more>

[wli]

1. this is great, please post if any word comes out on the legal actions n/t

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. Here's the link - and yup - the paper spelled protesters wrong - -

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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05234/557881.stm

more from the Article:

Police used a Taser, or stun gun, on two people and pepper spray on others, including a 4-year-old girl, and "toppled a man with multiple sclerosis in his motorized wheelchair," according to the group's statement.

Others were clubbed with retracting metal batons, and a 68-year-old grandmother was bitten in the thigh by a police dog, the statement said.
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Welcome to the new Amurikkka

[NYC]

3. I wonder if anyone got video of this:

...pepper spray on others, including a 4-year-old girl, and "toppled a man with multiple sclerosis in his motorized wheelchair...

[durutti]

7. I have it on good word...

That at the very least, there's footage that disproves most of the charges against the demonstrators.

[NYC]

8. Thanks. I want that footage

in court. This sort of behavior needs to be stopped.

[corporatemedia]

10. Links to VIDEO at...

http://santorumcybergate.blogspot.com/2005/08/our-home-town_21.html

[NYC]

4. Police injured by tasers, and suing.

http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=3746816

[magellan]

5. The sentence that says it all

Taser International has consistently denied that its products are to blame, arguing that no death has been directly linked to Tasers.

Heh. Think VIOXX.

[AnnieBW]

6. My Old Drinkin' Grounds!

Wow... my old drinking grounds - Forbes and Atwood. WTF is going on in Pittsburgh?

[blue neen]

9. Local channel WTAE-4 has been covering this on all of their newscasts.

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/allegheny/4877967/detail.html

They show the video of the woman being tasered AFTER she had already been pepper sprayed and was ON THE GROUND!

I'm glad that this has been getting a lot of local coverage--you never know!