Pittsburgh G20 protests and police use of a Long Range Acoustic Device [2009]

On September 24, 2009, the first day of the G20 summit in Pittsburgh, activists gathered for a rally and march downtown. The organizers did not have a permit to march; in fact, they never even applied.

So, the city sent a phalanx of bike cops, state troopers and riot cops to prevent the march. To prove their point, they blocked several streets and rolled out the newest form of crowd control: the L-RAD or Long Range Acoustic Device. The device — popular with the Communist government of China and the repressive former Russian satellite country, Georgia — emits an ear-splitting siren. The L-RAD had never been used in the U.S. before the G20 summit.

This is a video showing the use of that device in Pittsburgh.

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• crowd control
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