Pittsburgh and the G20 Protests

[Are_grits_groceries]

If somebody was twittering what they were seeing, I swear it would sound like the Iranian protests in a lot of ways.

[Warren Stupidity]

1. No the Iranians had permits so that was why it was bad

for the police to attack them indiscriminately. Our protesters did not have permits, so it is ok to beat the crap out of them with high tech weapons.

:sarcasm:

[nebenaube]

2. It just shows that the teabaggers are 'special' n/t

[BlooInBloo]

3. Pfft. What's a few orders of magnitude between friends?

:P

[PA Democrat]

4. The Pitt News (University of Pittsburgh student paper) was twittering last night

as more riot police swarmed onto the campus. There was a very small protest which was completely peaceful by all accounts. Looks like the police were looking for once last opportunity to use their new toy the LRAD, to launch a few more gas canisters at students (not protesters) who were out socializing on a Friday night and to crack open a few more skulls. I have lost all respect for the Pittsburgh Police after last night.

You can read it here:

http://twitter.com/thepittnews

[tigereye]

5. here's another PItt News link - they did a great job with the photos as well

http://www.pittnews.com/node/20088



Disturbing stuff - if the police didn't expect students to check out the action, they should have closed off that part near campus... and avoided a lot of the violence/police actions that came later.

[PA Democrat]

7. Most students would have been unaware of what's going on had the

riot police not descended en masse and forced the protesters into the main part of campus. There was no damage to property and the only violence was initiated by the police themselves.

[tigereye]

8. what I read what that a bunch of "anarchists" (who obviously know nothing

about the history of anarchy) smashed a bunch of windows in various businesses on Forbes later in the evening, including Pamela's, a wonderful locally owned restaurant. That apparently led to the police pushing back and using force.


( I wasn't there- I'm just going from reports that I read)

[PA Democrat]

9. The property damage occurred on Thursday night and it was one individual

who broke all the windows and he was arrested that same night. The individual was not a student and had come from out of state for the protest.

Last night was a small peaceful demonstration which occurred in a park on the edge of campus. The police forced the protesters out of the park and chased them into the main part of campus.

[tigereye]

10. oh, sorry, I missed the info about that one... thought you were talking about

Thursday.

:hi:

[PA Democrat]

13. No problem.

I've been following the story closely because my son is a student at Pitt and both my husband and I are alumni.

[tigereye]

14. gotcha - I'm an alumna as well, as is my husband, brother, etc.

so it was worrisome to see those shots from the Pitt News. Scary to think of police chasing students into the lobby of the Towers..

[Kievan Rus]

11. The vidoes of those cops marching goes good with "the Imperial March"

Evil bastards.

[PA Democrat]

6. Photos of riot police going after peaceful protesters last night here:

http://www.pittnews.com/node/20118

http://www.pittnews.com/node/20121

http://www.pittnews.com/node/20122

[Kievan Rus]

12. F***ing pigs

They're gonna have to fumigate Oakland after all those pigs were running around...to avoid swine flu spread!