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Over a hundred take part in anti-war protest in Pittsburgh before fight breaks out
WPXI ^ | January 4, 2020

Posted on 01/04/2020 2:47:38 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

PITTSBURGH — More than a hundred people took part in an anti-war protest in Pittsburgh on Saturday. The protest followed the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad by militiamen on New Year’s Day and the death of a top Iranian military general by a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad. It was a peaceful protest before a fight broke out and police had to step in.

Hosted in part by ANSWER Pittsburgh, which stands for Act Now to Stop War & End Racism Coalition, the local demonstration was held in coordination with other similar events across the country. NBC News reported there was a much larger anti-war demonstration held in Times Square in New York City on Saturday.

The event in Pittsburgh took place at Schenley Plaza and featured people holding signs and various speakers.

At one point, opposing sides started arguing before things turned physical and police officers had to step in to separate people. Our crew at the scene reported people began pushing and shoving, yelling curse words and ripping up signs.

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KEYWORDS: antiwar; pittsburgh; protest
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No info on who represented the "opposing side."
1 posted on 01/04/2020 2:47:38 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
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And where were these folks when Obama smoked Ghadaffi?

The Anti-War Left is more Left than Anti-War. I hold them in contempt for being shameless hypocrites.

2 posted on 01/04/2020 2:50:13 PM PST by Lysandru
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ANSWER = Chicom agitprop


3 posted on 01/04/2020 2:52:29 PM PST by Phil DiBasquette
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To: Lysandru

“And where were these folks when Obama smoked Ghadaffi?”

Drinking boxed wine and playing with their 8 cats.


4 posted on 01/04/2020 2:58:43 PM PST by EEGator
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Paid protestors courtesy of Soros probably. This crap is always planned and organized. Preprinted signs too I’d betcha. Where were they when Obama was widening the war?


5 posted on 01/04/2020 3:00:36 PM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Phil DiBasquette

Houston. We have a subversive commie problem.


6 posted on 01/04/2020 3:03:43 PM PST by HighSierra5
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To: Lysandru
And where were these folks when Obama smoked Ghadaffi?

Or Bin Laden?


7 posted on 01/04/2020 3:06:23 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: EEGator

Now wait a minute.....I love boxed cabernet & we have a cat.........


8 posted on 01/04/2020 3:20:02 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: leaning conservative

You have one cat and a husband.
They have 8 cats and no husband.


9 posted on 01/04/2020 3:25:11 PM PST by EEGator
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To: leaning conservative

Pittsburgh is quickly becoming a seat of thought much like Oxford. Oxford of The West.


10 posted on 01/04/2020 3:25:55 PM PST by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

There will be no fighting in the war room.


11 posted on 01/04/2020 3:26:16 PM PST by Moonman62 (Charity comes from wealth.)
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To: Moonman62

Trotskyites vs Stalinists.


12 posted on 01/04/2020 3:28:17 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Pro Iran lefties sorry more Americans weren’t killed.


13 posted on 01/04/2020 3:37:55 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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100, in Pittsburgh? We had 100 at the 2nd grade boys basketball practice this morning.


14 posted on 01/04/2020 3:40:22 PM PST by bella1 (Je suis deplorable)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

You can’t make this stuff up.


15 posted on 01/04/2020 3:50:24 PM PST by Tax-chick (Make yourself useful. And don't die!)
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“Over a hundred take part in anti-war protest in Pittsburgh before fight breaks out”

Reminds me of the old “I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out” thing.

A hundred? They used to turn out thousands in the ‘60’s, man.


16 posted on 01/04/2020 3:52:20 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Epstein pulled a Carradine, the bozo.)
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To: EEGator

Point taken ; )


17 posted on 01/04/2020 3:57:08 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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They will report a hundred protesters but not the million against abortion that showed up in DC. Freakin scum!


18 posted on 01/04/2020 4:12:56 PM PST by Cowgirl
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
ANSWER is a communist front. It started as an anti-war front group for the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party.

It's tragic how liberal news media is either complicit in covering it up or monumentally stupid in not seeing and reporting it.
19 posted on 01/04/2020 4:15:40 PM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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A bunch of old ladies on the Pitt campus.

Over-the-hill hippies.


20 posted on 01/04/2020 5:33:02 PM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (I'll be good, I will, I will.)
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