It's like martial law, but it's not. Announced by riot police inside penn university

[vodalian]

YouTube - It's like Martial Law, but it's Not?? Annouced by Riot Police INSIDE Penn University (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQeGtCL_Ov0)



Edit: I meant to post this in the civil liberties section, can a mod please move it? Thanks!

[Uriel999]

Heh, yeah and those canisters filled with gas they are throwing at people are like tear gas, but there not. :rolleyes:

[Bern]

Is this is a different campus from Pitt, wher most of the other videos are situated?

[amy31416]

Is this is a different campus from Pitt, wher most of the other videos are situated?

No. The person who posted the video probably didn't realize that Penn University implies the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (or possibly Penn State?), whereas this is the University of Pittsburgh, which is located in a completely different part of PA.

[Jeremy]

I like the end where they were convincing each other to obey the government...

[Bern]

Thanks Amy. I really had not been paying attention to the story, but have been catching up in the last hour or two. Check out the comments posted on this article:
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Also forced into Bruce Hall was sophomore Kevin McMahon.

He was finishing a cigarette outside the residence hall when a police officer ordered him inside.

McMahon said he was upset with the demand.

“This is our residence hall,” he said. “This is where we pay to live every year. Of all the places to try and confine us and say that we’re being unlawful, how can it be in our own residence halls?”

Officers on scene and in the city’s Zone 4 police office, which covers Oakland, declined to comment. Many police forces other than the Pittsburgh Police were involved in the demonstration.

Elizabeth Pittinger, executive director of the Citizen Police Review Board, said she didn’t think Pittsburgh had seen the level of force used by police in terms of the Long Range Acoustic Device and chemical agents before this past week.

“They were deployed probably the most that we’ve used them in contemporary history here in the city,” she said.

The Citizen Police Review Board is appointed by City Council and is responsible for reviewing police activity.

http://www.pittnews.com/node/20144

Comments:
*******Pittsburgh Police scanner recording of G20 savage thug attack on peaceful citizens - Sept. 25 2009 11:00pm est *****

Listen to how the Pittsburgh Police turn into Tyrannical Robot Military Thugs terrorizing citizens.

"This is your FORCE MULTIPLIER!! GAS EM' "

http://snardfarker.ning.com/group/pittsburgh_g20_summit/forum/topics/pol...

Download Link
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=ce0c7e674f5e542061d4646c62b381cbe04e7...

Spread this fast !
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I listened to some of it, and from what I can gather the agenda of the police is not to get the crowd to disperse, but to encircle and entrap. Is that correct?

If so, that means the police spokespersons have been lying when they said the police were only trying to get the crowd to disperse.

Please clarify.
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Ya the police purposely encircled and gassed the crowd.

You can clearly hear one cop saying "majority of the crowd has split up" and "Nothing more we can do here.. We pushed them all the way back.. Do you want us to fallback?"

Yes the police spokesperson has been lying.
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I listened to all hour and a half of the tapes. Someone would have to listen to them much more carefully than I am capable of because I'm a little hard of hearing and much of the conversation just fades into noise.

It sounds as if they sealed off all the streets running off the quad and then started driving everyone towards the quad. I heard the word "encircle" used repeatedly. They also appeared to have pursued anyone who attempted to escape, chasing them into buildings.

Just about the time the police were closing in on the quad, someone announced (minute 7:30 on 4.wav): "Initiate Hammer and Anvil!"

I don't recall any mention of tear gas other than at minute 30:00 on 4.wav when someone says "we've launched tear gas" and then immediately retracts that statement.

What, pray tell, is "Hammer and Anvil"?

It is clearly some code word for something, no? Could it be code for “commence launching tear gas and firing into the crowd”? Could the overt use of the word “tear gas” at minute 30:00 have been a slip-up, since it was immediately corrected?

The appearances certainly aren’t good. It would appear this entire operation, code named "Hammer and Anvil," was pre-planned.
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[Ranger29860]

Anyone got that audio recording downloaded i followed both links and nothing

[Dr.3D]

I agree, it's not martial law, it's called police law and I doubt it's legal.

[newbitech]

Anyone got that audio recording downloaded i followed both links and nothing

http://snardfarker.ning.com/group/pittsburgh_g20_summit/forum/topics/police-scanner-recording-of

download link

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=ce0c7e674f5e542061d4646c62b381cbe04e75f6 e8ebb871

[Bern]

The links worked for me. The first link offers these links to stream the audio:

a.wav (http://12160media.ning.com/forum/attachment/download?id=3804640%3AUploadedFile%3A655)

b.wav (http://12160media.ning.com/forum/attachment/download?id=3804640%3AUploadedFile%3A656)