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September 22, 2010

ACLU Sues Pittsburgh Police over 2009 G20 Arrests
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In related news, the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal
lawsuit over the mass arrest of twenty-five protesters at the G20 summit
in Pittsburgh in September 2009. The suit says police illegally
disrupted a peaceful gathering, arrested people who were trying to
follow police orders, and used excessive force including the gratuitous
firing of pepper spray and rubber bullets.



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