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Discuss “Police use Tasers, dogs at local protest”

On August 20, protestors clashed with police outside an Army recruiting station on Forbes Avenue in Oakland. Roughly 50 protestors, including students from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, had gathered to protest recruitment on Saturday morning.

However, after a protestor reportedly struck a television cameraman, University of Pittsburgh and city police moved in and used pepper spray, police dogs, and projectile Taser guns on the crowd. Nathan Shaffer, a University of Pittsburgh senior and member of the Pittsburgh Organizing Group, said that when the conflict broke out "the police were keeping everyone on the sidewalk. People didn't really know what was going on."

Shaffer said that four people were arrested and...

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