Making history operating the Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) for the first time against unarmed civilians in the US.
- Making history operating the Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) for the first time against unarmed civilians in the US.
- Foreshadowing? Police on hand to quell the "People's Uprising." This would not be the first time this has happened in western Pennsylvania.
- The LRAD is a weapon that uses focused, directional sound to incapacitate opponents of the empire.
- A show of force to disperse the anarcha-feminist hula-hoop action after they had already started to leave.
- Defending a boarded-up Qdoba. This is the group of law enforcement tourists that was ready to give me some "stick time" for trying to go to Rite Aid to buy camera batteries. Although my press credentials were openly displayed, they still made me walk all the way around the block, as in "You! I want you to go all the way around the block!" Too bad it is near mandatory to cover up names and badge numbers at these events.
- Photographing civilians
- Chasing after the Free Tibet March, to show them that China is not the only nation willing to abuse their human rights.
- Guarding the vital national security interest that was the portable toilets for the rally and march.
- Marching in circles near the portable toilets
- There were also US troops stationed in the North Side (then called Allegheny City) during the Great Strike of 1877, to defend the rich people who lived there.
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