Riot Police Assault Students on Univ. of Pittsburgh University Campus (video)
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During the G20 summit in Pittsburgh, riot police were recorded firing tear gas into crowds of students and faculty who were doing nothing more than sitting, standing or walking on their own campus. A group of students reported being forcibly removed from “our own unit”. By PA, the police order all people in the public spaces on campus to “immediately disperse” or risk attack from “less lethal munitions”.
Some students held up one of the canisters that was fired into the crowd, to assist in identifying the chemical agent that was used against the crowd. The student filming is threatened and told to back away after urging a fellow student who was beaten and thrown to the ground to shout out his name, so his welfare could be inquired after.
Other videos, including one by the Glass Bead Collective, appear to show students trapped between two groups of riot police, in an exterior stairwell of their residence halls. The police then fired multiple rounds of tear gas at the students and failed to desist, even when one of the students, who was hit in the head, cried out that she was bleeding and needed help.
Finally, when police refused to allow them to exit at street level, one policeman allowed the students to climb higher up, away from the shots coming from the street. One student who was among those trapped and gassed decried the police “coming into our residence halls” and assaulting students, in response to nothing worse than “idiots running around in bandanas” on or near the campus.
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