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Police attack peaceful protesters with tasers and dogs, Grandma hospitalized for dog bites
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Video of subdued woman, surrounded by police, being shot with taser gun:
[link to media.indypgh.org]
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[link to www.gnn.tv]
Police in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania used tasers, attack dogs and pepper spray to disperse a crowd of nonviolent protesters who had organized to shut down the local military recruiting station. Here is video of a woman, already subdued on the ground and surrounded by police officers, being shot with a taser. A 68 year old woman was bitten by a police dog and hospitalized. There were several other hospitalizations and at least six arrests. See Pittsburgh IMC for non-corporate coverage.
[Posted By whitey]
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By Associated Press
Republished from Newsday
Police in Pittsburgh attack anti-recruitment protesters with tasers, dogs and pepperspray
PITTSBURGH – Two women protesting the war in Iraq were taken to a hospital Saturday after police broke up an unauthorized march involving about five dozen people on a busy one-way street near an Army recruiting station.
David Meieran, who helped organize the protest, accused police of “inappropriate and excessive force.”
Sgt. Clint Winkler, a supervisor on duty, told The Associated Press that one woman who would not leave was subdued with a Taser. He also confirmed that a police dog bit another woman on the leg when she refused police orders to disperse.
Both women and a man involved in the march were arrested, Winkler said.
“They were told to disperse, peacefully disperse, and failed to do so, so we started down the sidewalk—officers in front, K-9’s behind us, and started pushing the crowd down the sidewalk,” Winkler said. He said the march broke up after the arrests.
The recruiting station was not open at the time.
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