G20 Video Roundup: Pittsburgh Cops Trap And Gas Students

Choire Sicha
The Awl
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1 min readSep 25, 2009

Ah, the classic techniques of clearing a city, martial-law style. Here’s the cops trapping students at the University of Pittsburgh on a stairway while they fire teargas into the crowd below. But the fun doesn’t stop there!

Demonstrators, well, they get what you’d expect them to get: teargas and sonic weapons. There is some impressive footwork displayed here, of demonstrators kicking teargas canisters back at the cops!

Also here is a weird video of military people hustling some dude into an unmarked car and taking off with him. Neat.

And the above is how a group of cops in riot gear decide to dispose of two annoying hippies. Clubbing helps, I find.

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