The G20 protests in Pittsburgh over the weekend probably weren’t as large-scale as the organisers hoped. That didn’t stop the Pittsburgh police (and the military, in umarked cars?) from responding with force. “Less lethal” force, according to police messages. They included OC gas (pepper spray), rubber bullets, batons to the groin and – used for the first time against American civilians – LRAD “sound cannons”.
The footage below is slightly annotated, with the unwise activities of both police and protesters pointed out.
Ryan Sproull is a freelance writer and creative,
a champagne anarchist, was editor of Craccum in '06, and is really quite an awful fellow. 