It was not just a Yes We Can chant next door, it was an entire Obama riot that headed towards Pittsburgh downtown until the cops stopped it. Around 12:40 p.m. I went outside to see what was going, and soon found 100s of people walking up on Forbes Avenue. And there were 3 or 4 polics cars. I decided to join the group and we rushed towards the Hunt Library, but then decided to come back towards Morewood Avenue. By now I realized there probably couple of hundred people in the crowd. We went to Geek Quad and stopped for few minutes. I thought it was over, but we did not stop and continued to towards Oakland on Forbes Avenue. By now, I think there were 1000 - 2000 people in the riot and we all walked on Forbes towards S. Craig street. We turned on S. Craig street, I thought then we will turn back on Fifth Avenue, but no and we continued on Fifth towards Oakland. By then I realized that this was something big. We gathered more people (some from UPitt joined us), and we had a small stop at Mellon Institute and Soldiers and Sailors. Soon more and more cops started to come.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
CMU Obama Riot
And then at least 30 police cars drove us back.
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Just so you know - this riot started in oakland ... at U PITT, and a few CMU-ers joined in. It officially started at the Cathedral around 11:30 - we ran up forbes against traffic to make the cops shut down forbes. A quick run back down forbes back to the cathedral for about 10 minutes, then running with traffic down fifth, meyran, up forbes again - quick dance party in Hillman Library before the cops came in with dogs and sticks, then ran up to CMU where the riot actually died down a little... then it just got lame and we left.
found a couple vids. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuhE5al9De0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2pbQSvCI6U
And yes, this started at the cathedral around 11
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