The relatively peaceful protests, rallies and marches at the G-20 Summit on Sept. 24 and 25 ended with 110 people tear-gassed, handcuffed and detained - eight of them Ohio University students.
Those eight students were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and failure to disperse after taking part in a small rally on the University of Pittsburgh campus after the G-20 on Sept. 25.
The group decided to go to the rally in Schenley Park at the last minute, and everyone agreed that it ended with police misconduct, said Tim Sallinger, a senior studying journalism who is from Chicago and was arrested that night.
When we got (to Schenley Park)
I saw two or three dozen people who were about to protest something and many times more that number of police definitely over 100 maybe up to 400
Sallinger said.
Bystanders watched the police while a small group of protesters played duck-duck-goose, Sallinger said. Meanwhile, busloads of police kept coming to the area, including SWAT teams, K-9 units and members of the National Guard, he said.
Then a recorded voice came from the police sound cannon, By order of the Pittsburgh police
this is an unlawful assembly and you need to disperse immediately.
By this time, Sallinger said, the OU group was trying to leave and drive back to Athens.
Molly Shea, a senior studying environmental geography and a candidate for Student Senate president last year, said the students moved across Forbes Avenue onto a field near the Cathedral of Learning on Pitt's campus.
As the police encircled us
people were holding up peace signs
and we said that we just want to go home
Shea said. Then the police starting shooting off tear gas and handcuffing people.
After initial processing, men and women were separated into different paddy wagons or buses for transport to SCI Pittsburgh, formerly Western Penitentiary.
Generally
'bitch' and 'cunt' were being used fairly liberally (by police). There was one point where they were moving some of the people around and from the different paddy wagons and one of them said something like
'Get the hot ones out
' Shea said.
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