Pitt Student Solidarity Coalition claim police brutality during Thursday evening’s protest.

In a Facebook post released late last night, they wrote: “Police brutalized and arrested several students for protesting PEACEFULLY on their own campus. In the words of a good friend: ‘Let it be known that tonight tuition paying students were forced out of the spaces that exist and are maintained solely for their use by brutal force wielded by policemen who are paid through the tuition these students pay. Let it be known several of these policemen were not in uniform yet still brutalized and intimidated students with tear gas canisters, pistols, and batons, students who were literally just standing in the wrong place. Whose interests are the police protecting?'”

According to Pitt News, “Pitt police arrested two people – one who is a Pitt student – during a protest Thursday evening.

“Police handcuffed three protestors – two female, one masked individual.”

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