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Civil Rights Groups Sue City Of Pittsburgh Over Harassment And Intimidation Of Activists During G-20 Summit

PITTSBURGH - The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and the Center for Constitutional Rights announced today they have filed papers to expand and continue a civil rights lawsuit against the City of Pittsburgh, city officials and police officers for their repeated harassment and intimidation of two climate and environmental-justice organizations whose efforts to organize and support demonstrations during September's G-20 Summit were completely frustrated.  More...

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Charges withdrawn against 2 who Twittered police location [Post-Gazette]

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.  More...

Disorder in the Court [Pittsburgh City Paper]

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 volumes -- actually made things more confusing.  More...

How Could It Be Against the Law to Spread Public Information? [AlterNet]

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.  More...

CMU attends G-20 hearings, Pitt passes [Pitt News]

When several CMU students appeared in court last week for hearings related to the G-20 Summit, University administrators accompanied them for support.  More...

Updates on G20 Arrests [Rustbelt Radio]

Pittsburgh Indymedia's Rustbelt Radio has an audio report of the hearings and comments from the arrestees. Listen now [ogg file].

Lawyers spar with police over arrests [Post-Gazette]

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.  More...

A day of lies and poses: Pittsburgh Magistral Court hears G-20 arrests: Day 2 [Pittsburgh Examiner]

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.  More...

G-20 arrestees line up before judges [Post-Gazette]

police pitt towersA 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.  More...

'Organized chaos': G-20 hearings begin in Pittsburgh municipal court [Pitt News]

Perhaps a member of security staff at city court described yesterday’s G-20 arrest hearings best: “This is crazy as hell.”  More...

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