G20 Summit September 2009 - Police Crackdown @ Univ. Pittsburgh

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Disturbing stuff:

Police Beatdown / Protest Recap







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Martial law?



@~2:15 of the video a cop says, "You go outside, they grab you, you get arrested. Right now they are telling everybody to disperse. It's almost like the government coming in and saying it's martial law, but its not."

"Yes it is," a student responds.

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Military kidnapping?



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Also forced into Bruce Hall was sophomore Kevin McMahon.

He was finishing a cigarette outside the residence hall when a police officer ordered him inside.

McMahon said he was upset with the demand.

“This is our residence hall,” he said. “This is where we pay to live every year. Of all the places to try and confine us and say that we’re being unlawful, how can it be in our own residence halls?”

Officers on scene and in the city’s Zone 4 police office, which covers Oakland, declined to comment. Many police forces other than the Pittsburgh Police were involved in the demonstration.

Elizabeth Pittinger, executive director of the Citizen Police Review Board, said she didn’t think Pittsburgh had seen the level of force used by police in terms of the Long Range Acoustic Device and chemical agents before this past week.

“They were deployed probably the most that we’ve used them in contemporary history here in the city,” she said.

The Citizen Police Review Board is appointed by City Council and is responsible for reviewing police activity.

http://www.pittnews.com/node/20144

Comments from the story:

*******Pittsburgh Police scanner recording of G20 savage thug attack on peaceful citizens - Sept. 25 2009 11:00pm est *****

Listen to how the Pittsburgh Police turn into Tyrannical Robot Military Thugs terrorizing citizens.

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I listened to some of it, and from what I can gather the agenda of the police is not to get the crowd to disperse, but to encircle and entrap. Is that correct?

If so, that means the police spokespersons have been lying when they said the police were only trying to get the crowd to disperse.

Please clarify.
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Ya the police purposely encircled and gassed the crowd.

You can clearly hear one cop saying "majority of the crowd has split up" and "Nothing more we can do here.. We pushed them all the way back.. Do you want us to fallback?"

Yes the police spokesperson has been lying.
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I listened to all hour and a half of the tapes. Someone would have to listen to them much more carefully than I am capable of because I'm a little hard of hearing and much of the conversation just fades into noise.

It sounds as if they sealed off all the streets running off the quad and then started driving everyone towards the quad. I heard the word "encircle" used repeatedly. They also appeared to have pursued anyone who attempted to escape, chasing them into buildings.

Just about the time the police were closing in on the quad, someone announced (minute 7:30 on 4.wav): "Initiate Hammer and Anvil!"

I don't recall any mention of tear gas other than at minute 30:00 on 4.wav when someone says "we've launched tear gas" and then immediately retracts that statement.

What, pray tell, is "Hammer and Anvil"?

It is clearly some code word for something, no? Could it be code for “commence launching tear gas and firing into the crowd”? Could the overt use of the word “tear gas” at minute 30:00 have been a slip-up, since it was immediately corrected?

The appearances certainly aren’t good. It would appear this entire operation, code named "Hammer and Anvil," was pre-planned.
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Agent Provocatuers Caught Amongst Protesters



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Unlawful Assembly?

UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY - A disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons who meet together with an intent mutually to assist each other in the execution of some unlawful enterprise of a private nature, with force and violence; if they move forward towards its execution, it is then a rout and if they actually execute their design, it amounts to a riot.

http://www.lectlaw.com/def2/u065.htm

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LRAD sonic weapon that was used:

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Q: What is the hammer and anvil concept in conducting war?

A: It really deals with the total destruction or capture of an enemy force. Typically involves a large force attacking the enemy from one side and driving them back into an entrenched force you have established behind them, smashing them in between the two groups. It can also be effective when backing them up against natural formations such as mountains, rivers or swamps.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_th...conducting_war

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After getting the University’s emergency text message alert to stay near my residence Friday night, I naturally had to check out the action. Come on, we only have so many times to witness history, and the G-20 Summit happened to be one of those moments.

After I found a way to Forbes Avenue, weaving through buildings and police lines, I thought the night might come to a standstill. I was wrong. Behind me, a group of armored police with shields came charging down from the William Pitt Union. It felt like the running of the bulls, and I was in their way.

So I ran into “The O,” hoping I could find a place to hide. I hadn’t eaten there since freshman year, but that moment seemed like a good time to reacquaint myself with it.

Looking outside, the Pamplona in Pittsburgh suddenly became more like Tiananmen Square. I saw police throwing OC gas. I saw students being clubbed to the ground. I saw hell.

My fortress on Forbes Avenue kept me safe — and well-fed — while I looked outside at a world I didn’t think I’d ever see. The police were trying to ward off anarchists. But the anarchists weren’t there.

Instead, the only people I saw facing the wrath of the police were students. Our campus had suddenly become a battleground where there were no innocent bystanders.

The G-20 brought Pittsburgh to the forefront of places to assemble.

Compared to the 50,000 protesters who descended upon Seattle during the World Trade Organization assembly 10 years ago, this event turned out almost incident-free. County Executive Dan Onorato said the G-20 was a success on all accounts.

But after the big-name news stations left — after the celebrity politicians left, after Mayor Luke Ravenstahl had his photo op with President Obama — the police spared no mercy for those who remained in the area.

Watching YouTube clips of riots and police state events is one thing. But when you’re there to witness them firsthand, your heart pounds in your chest and your breathing becomes more difficult with each inhalation of OC gas.

It’s a surreal high of fright and exhilaration at the same time.

I love the United States and its principles. On the first night of protest in Schenley Plaza, I proudly wore my “John McCain for President” T-shirt in quiet dissidence. I can do that because the United States is a free country.

But the second night of Oakland protests was nothing more than an eradication of all life.

As it all happened, I asked myself, “Where did my college go? Where is my Oakland?” I didn’t recognize this place. This wasn’t my home. The principles of the United States had been lost in the wake of martial law.

I couldn’t walk to my South Oakland apartment because the police would have arrested me or worse. Even if I could, for the first time in my life, I was scared of my own government. During the protests, a cold terror in the back of my mind told me to flee to the nearest shelter I could find.
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http://www.pittnews.com/node/20158