{"id":14620,"date":"2009-09-25T09:02:48","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T14:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14620"},"modified":"2009-09-25T09:06:53","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T14:06:53","slug":"g-20-protesters-get-gassed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14620","title":{"rendered":"G-20 protesters get gassed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/g20.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14621 aligncenter\" title=\"NEWS-US-G20-PROTESTS\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/g20.jpg\" alt=\"NEWS-US-G20-PROTESTS\" width=\"399\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/g20.jpg 399w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/g20-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,555262,00.html\">Fox News<\/a> is reporting that crowd control measures at the G-20 conference in Pittsburgh include tear gas and rubber bullets;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police fired canisters of pepper spray and smoke and rubber bullets at marchers protesting the Group of 20 summit Thursday after anarchists responded to calls to disperse by rolling trash bins, throwing rocks and breaking windows.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Police Chief Nate Harper said 17 to 19 protesters were arrested, and Mayor Luke Ravenstahl said swift police decisions resulted in minimal property damage. Officials said there were no reports of injuries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fox&#8217;s broadcast portion of the news reports the use of a sonic-type of device to disperse crowds.<\/p>\n<p>I love the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittnews.com\/node\/20092\">smell of whining moonbats<\/a> in the morning;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThey threw it at me, and it just smoked,\u201d Tabet said. \u201cI started coughing at first \u2026 it made my throat itch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tabet, who said he was not involved in the protests, said he later picked up the canister to keep as a souvenir.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Also stationed inside Bruce Hall was sophomore Kevin McMahon.<\/p>\n<p>He was finishing a cigarette outside the residence hall when a police officer ordered him inside.<\/p>\n<p>McMahon said he was upset with the demand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is our residence hall,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is where we pay to live every year. Of all the places to try and confine us and say that we\u2019re being unlawful, how can it be in our own residence halls?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, it&#8217;s the fault of the police that there are a bunch of immature little punks who want free reign to create all of the mayhem and chaos that&#8217;s in their black little hearts.<\/p>\n<p>Another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittnews.com\/node\/20064\">Pitt News link<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The protesters represent a variety of different causes. One sign reads, \u201cYou know it\u2019s a radical time because our teacher is the Earth.\u201d Another says, \u201cSupport anarchy\u201d on one side and \u201cSmack an anarchist\u201d on the other.<\/p>\n<p>Richard McKita, a 19-year-old Pitt freshman, said that he came to the protest because he liked the general spirit of what the protesters supported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t like the idea that 20 very rich and powerful people are going to make the decisions,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, more responsible decisions would be made by twenty very poor and weak people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News is reporting that crowd control measures at the G-20 conference in Pittsburgh include tear &hellip; <a title=\"G-20 protesters get gassed\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14620\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">G-20 protesters get gassed<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-whackos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}