CP Photo: Jared Wickerham
Protesters march from Mellon Park to Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto's home on Sun., Aug. 16, 2020.
The marshal was grabbed and put into an unmarked van by plainclothes Pittsburgh Police officers on Saturday in front of a number of protesters and fellow marshals who witnessed the event.
“They all had guns pointed and drawn, and they grabbed him and put him in the van and drove off on the sidewalk,” says one protester who spoke to Pittsburgh City Paper on the condition of anonymity.
On Sunday afternoon, Pittsburgh Police and Mayor Peduto responded with a press conference stating that the issue comes when protesters don't coordinate with police. But during Sunday's march, protesters made it clear that if they coordinated with police on their route that "this would be an escorted police parade. We are protesting police brutality!"
