Dec 3 2009
The large G-20 police presence has brought a number of complaints, including those by women who say they were sexually harassed.
Nov 2 2009
The Allegheny County District Attorney has dropped all charges against two New York men accused of posting locations of police officers on Twitter during the G-20 summit.
Oct 30 2009
The Citizen Police Review Board plans to hold a public hearing concerning the G-20 Summit-related arrests in Oakland, but the University’s feelings about the meeting are unclear.
Oct 29 2009
After more than 30 hearings for those arrested during last month's G-20 summit, one thing came through loud and clear: The new tool police hoped would make crowd dispersal easier -- a mobile PA system capable of broadcasting at painfully loud...
Oct 29 2009
The hazmat team rushed into Elliot Madison's home in Queens, N.Y., and headed straight for the kombucha tea brewing in a corner, assuming that the outspoken anarchist was concocting a chemical weapon.
Oct 29 2009
When several CMU students appeared in court last week for hearings related to the G-20 Summit, University administrators accompanied them for support.
Oct 28 2009
The Citizens Police Review Board says it wants to hear from the more than 200 people that were arrested during the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh, but also plans to hold a hearing with officials to find out why police were trained to act the way the did...
Oct 28 2009
The city's Citizen Police Review Board last night tentatively scheduled a Nov. 10 hearing, ideally to be held on the University of Pittsburgh campus, to hear the complaints of students arrested during last month's protests of the G-20 summit.
Oct 27 2009
Pittsburgh Indymedia's Rustbelt Radio has an audio report of the hearings and comments from the arrestees. Listen now [ogg file].
Oct 25 2009
A line of police officers and a line of lawyers faced off at Pittsburgh Municipal Court yesterday, quarreling over why more than 100 people were arrested in the streets of Oakland on the final day of the G-20 summit.
Oct 24 2009
To know a cop's lying in court is painful, but nowhere near as bad as knowing that he's wrong. Watching an entire case of prosecution made with it for over a dozen people is almost unbearable.
Oct 24 2009
An anarchist social worker raided by the feds wants his computers, manuscripts and pick axes back. He argues that authorities violated the U.S. Constitution and the rights of his mentally ill clients while searching for evidence that he broke an...
Oct 22 2009
A parade of college students marched through the Municipal Courts Building yesterday to explain why they were caught up in mass arrests following the G-20 summit, and District Judge Kevin E. Cooper played the role of a scolding parent.
Oct 22 2009
Perhaps a member of security staff at city court described yesterday’s G-20 arrest hearings best: “This is crazy as hell.”
Oct 21 2009
A majority of the dozens of people who appeared before the Pittsburgh Citizen Police Review Board on Tuesday evening complained that police were overzealous and violated the rights of protesters and innocent bystanders during the G-20 summit
