The police officers who locked down Oakland during the G-20 protests in September spiraled completely out of control, according to dozens of university students and other citizens who spoke before Pittsburgh's Citizen Police Review Board last night. (11/11/2009)
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. (10/28/2009)
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. (10/24/2009)
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. (10/22/2009)
Nearly a month after planting banners and dangling -- or trying to dangle -- from bridges as part of a G-20 demonstration, Ben Smith and Chelsea Ritter-Soronen say they got their message out. (10/22/2009)