Battle of Pittsburgh.

[professor rat]

Traffic was brought to a standstill in Downtown Pittsburgh today after 
protesters took to the streets against the war. An 3+hr snake march wove 
it's way through downtown and the southside. For awhile it was cat and 
mouse with the police trying unsucessfully to disperse people. Probably 150 
police have been brought out and are everywhere.
Organizers from POG: Pittsburgh Organizing Group have been targeted by the 
police (with one pog'er arrested with cries from the police of "we got him, 
we got one of the organizers)

Police scanners revealed police being instructed to charge any "anarchists" 
arrested with inciting a riot. We have at least one person injured and one 
person charged with assulting an officer. A couple un-arrests were 
sucessful but most people were taken after people were split up.

Pepper spray has been used. Dogs and horses are on the scene but we don't 
know whether they've been used.

There has been heavy racial profiling going on with numerous people of 
color signled out for arrest.

Many protesters were trapped on the bridge leading from the Southside to 
Downtown.

Sorry this report was hectic. Too much to do.

Pittsburgh: Thursday night protest photographs 3.20.03
by lisa brunner � [Link] Friday March 21, 2003 at 12:48 AM
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photographs of the protest downtown from 5 pm to about 7:30 pm.
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/03/20/7476534