Police fought with protestors on the sidewalk. (WOW!)

[Check12]

Today in Oakland, august 20th, 2005, in front of the Army Recruiting Center on Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh Police and University of Pittsburgh Police fought with protestors on the sidewalk. At least six people were arrested; police fired tasers and other weapons at the crowd, including restrained arrestees and bystanders.

During the rally at the station, a freelance Fox News cameraman who was aggressively filming demonstrators' faces was told to leave and started a minor confrontation with protestors. He returned with police officers, claiming that either he was punched or that his camera was broken (although he continued to use his camera the rest of the day). Witnesses confirm that neither of these things happened. On this pretense, police began chasing any masked protestors they could find, arresting several and firing weapons at the crowd. Several people have confirmed that they were hit with tasers and chemical weapons. Video cameras captured tasers being fired at people who had already been subdued and restrained by police officers.

Later, police dogs were used to chase away protestors on the sidewalk, and one woman was bitten from behind by a police dog. Some time later, after telling police she wanted to file a complaint, she was told the police would "take her information," but instead she was arrested and placed in the back of a police van.

http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/

[jsamuel]

1. SO FOX INCITED THE PROBLEMS!!!!!

[Dynasty_At_Passes]

2. Faux News is back to its fascism....

The reporters at Faux News need to all grow up, I wonder what country would take them in no problem.....

Maybe Cuba? :shrug:

[the_spectator]

3. Sounds pretty bad -

(for others who wondered, it appears that "Oakland" is not in CA in this instance, but is instead a district or suburb of Pittsburgh, PA.)

[wake.up.america]

4. So FOX is up to making (up) news. Nothing new..

[NYC]

5. This is important:

Video cameras captured tasers being fired at people who had already been subdued and restrained by police officers.

Without video cameras, things would be much worse for civilians.

[Check12]

6. Here is a link to the Quicktime video

http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2005/08/19803.php

[NYC]

10. Thanks.

I'll go look at it now.

[Mythsaje]

7. All protests should be video-taped

by at least two separate participants at a reasonable distance from the thick of things.

For insurance.

[wli]

9. I've been saying that for a while now.

There are a lot of issues that go along with this, like the cops targeting people with videocameras first. I had remedies for this and other issues in my "plan."

[Mythsaje]

12. Well...

We could always stage a video-protest...<g> arranging for as many people as possible with video cameras spread through the crowd. And people with cell-phone video and still cameras to catch anything hinky.

[wli]

8. lawsuit time! sue their bloody asses off!!! n/t

[NYC]

11. Police injured by tasers, and suing.

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