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Anti-War demonstrators protest outside a Pittsburgh Army Recruitment Center and are subjected to pepper spray, tasers, and a K-9 Unit. One woman was tasered while on the ground, a few small children were hit with pepper spray, a man in a wheel chair was knocked over, and a 68-year-old grandmother was bitten by a police dog.
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18 responses // Pittsburgh Protest Turns Ugly

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    I can see alot, clean the shot up. Police are get away with a little to much now a days.Theres no one to answer too for them .Its not the people(maybe a little) its the
    ethnic code and traing thats screwed up.They should throw a little plato in there robot.

    natoir1
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    There was another rally this past Saturday, August 27th. Approximately 100 people showed up along with police and the media, but both sides were well behaved. Hopefully the press and complaints about police brutality from the previous rally have curbed the hit first & ask questions later mentality that has plagued previous protests.

    laduejohn
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    I couldn't see anyone getting tasered. Was that in there?

    Eric_Jaffa
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    I'm strongly against police brutality, but I can't greenlight this yet.

    If you added more footage (your own or from somewhere else there) and added narration or text, I'd like to greenlght it.

    Eric_Jaffa
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    I meant from someone else there.

    Eric_Jaffa
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    The clicking sound that can be heard is the taser gun. You can see it in the video, but due to the constraints of uploading which lower the picture quality & size it's hard to tell. Greenlight this & put it on tv & it will be much easier to see.

    laduejohn
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    The person that you can see being tasered is the girl on the ground towards the back when there are two people being arrested. It's hard to see her being tasered because she is already on the ground with two officers holding her, that's when the third officer comes over with the taser gun.

    laduejohn
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    Good work, not easy to see every thing but we got the idea.

    Thanks,
    TJ Walkup

    gargoylex
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    Great first hand coverage. In a post script, protestors found the home address for the officer who tasered a protestor, and his home has been bricked on one occasion. They're now taking action to possibly remove the names of police officers from the property assessors website.

    woof12
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    good job. i think it is very sad that the mainstream media doesn't cover this type of stuff.

    kaphtziel
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    Wow it's like the Vietnam thing all over man. yeah right.

    Look there is no draft and no one cares about the Iraqi people.

    The American soldier doesn't need to be harassed by goof-balls.

    It ain't gonna happen. Most of these protesters are really just in need of some other form of entertainment.

    It's great that we live in a country that has the freedoms to allow total goof-balls to protest.

    The blood of the courageous Americans bought this freedom at a high price. This is just in poor taste. Uncle Sam does NOT WANT YOU! Nor will he ever; so go smoke your dope and start trouble with an organization that deserves it. US Soldiers are fighting and dying because they were brave enough to stand up for the entire country including these protesting clowns and the doofuses that tried to make a story out of it. They get paid very little, take extreme risks.

    Our troops deserve support.

    There is nothing to protest! They days of forcing cowards into military service are over. Pittsburgh . No steel, No honor, just decay.
    Though I like that downtown.

    briandonofrio
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    Greenlight for showing how it really is.

    DeanHamer
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    I would like to see the protest before and how it got violent, but greenlight anyway.

    Ignorant_Hypocrite
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    what more can i say......if this isnt evidence of a police state then what is.......when did it become acceptable for the police to think they can honestly treat people like this?

    antony22
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    Im sooooooooooooo glad that i was not a part of that. I was going home on the 61C when that happened.

    dkay19
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    briandonofrio - I'm not sure you understand why protesters do what they do. (Have you ever honestly approached and asked any of them?)

    It's not that they don't support our troops, or even hate troops, as people like you would suggest - but rather, it's that they don't support a government/President that lies to its own country, sends it's best and brightest men and women to fight a war, a war that will never be won - all in the name of greed, money, oil, and power.

    Believe me - a good number of us a *very* concerned about our troops, and support/love our troops - and this is why we protest, why we don't want to see them there, why we don't want to see them sacrifice their valuable lives for these reasons, why we don't want to see their children growing up without a mommy or a daddy.

    Remember - "You/we don't have to like the President (or his actions) to love America."

    GhostGal
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    I covered the protest march through Regent Square into Swissvale that year for In Pittsburgh (now defunkt, after being bought out by the publishing co of competitor City Paper). There had been a lot of reports of police brutality that year, so I had proposed the story and they were supportive. And I can say the relationship between the protesters and the police was not a respectful one. If you tried to talk to the police at all, respectfully asking simple questions (not about brutality but about guidlines for our behavior), they yelled in your face to keep moving. Or they would yell, "We will not talk to press!". A few protesters were hit with pepper spray and no one could figure out what had happened, what their offense was. I mean, if a protester throws something or attacks someone, sure, they're getting tasered. But no one saw the protesters who were sprayed, do anything. When I saw the commotion I ran over and by then it was just a few kids in agonizing pain, with no idea why they had been singled out. When I contacted the police in Swissvale about the incident, they declined comment. The organizing group stated that they had seen no provocation.

    ambulantic
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    briandonofrio, please understand, we believe that supporting the troops means speaking out against an immoral and poorly thought out war. I come from a military family. I have a great deal of respect for anyone who serves, and especially anyone who must face the most terrible reality of armed conflict. We are not disrespecting the troops, we are voicing our disagreement with an administration that has callously thrown them into great danger. And as far as Iraq? Of course we care. As many as 700,000 Iraqis have died since the war began. We wanted Saddam out of power. But there was a better way. Maybe Rumsfeld and his cronies shouldn't have given them massive arms to combat Iran in the 80's. Then he wouldn't have had all the chemical weapons with which to murder the Kurds. If you don't know about this, then please educate yourself. This is not some half-witted conspiracy crap. This is history. Recorded and videotaped.

    ambulantic

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