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Originally posted by DoggyStyle82
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WPU fights draw police, dogs
Some football players implicated as series of fights results in several arrests, allegations of Pitt police misconduct
by GREG HELLER-LaBELLE & CHRISTINE CLAUS
Staff Report
October 22, 2002

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It was at that point, around 1:20 a.m., according to Zeta Phi Beta member Summer Haston, that a Pitt police officer punched her as she was leaving.

"He just came and cracked me," she said. "He just hit me across my face."

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According to Haston, "one of the police officers said 'get out of here before I get the dog on you,' and when he said that, the dog attacked him, and I'm like 'you don't even have your dogs under control,'" she said.

"The dog literally just turned around and jumped on this officer and started biting him, and he's like 'down, down, down!'"

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"It seemed like they were in the mindset of 'let's crack some heads,'" William James said.

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Nathan James said a third fight then began outside of the Union, near the bronze panther statue at around 1:45 a.m., and that afterward, a member of the football team made a call from his cell phone and told the person on the other end to "bring the shit," which Nathan James said he took to mean guns.

"What happened was they lost the fight, so they were very upset because they lost the fight and they're the football team and they're really not supposed to lose the fight I guess," Nathan James said.

He said after 2 a.m., he and some of the brothers went to the Original Hot Dog Shop, where members of the football team who had been in the fights met them, and lifted up their shirts to reveal guns.

"They went and got guns and chased us around campus," he said.

OKAY...(I know this is an old article, I just wanted to comment) Is this a professionally written article, or was it out of a college paper? It just reads kinda....sub-par, for lack of another word. I have never read a professional piece that was soooo 'quoted'. I mean, there were so many first-hand witness quotes that I kinda got lost in all the unnecessary ghetto details. What ever happened to paraphrasing? Do you think they added all of these details to emphasize that the crowd was "out of hand", so as to somewhat justify the cops frustrations?

BUT, yes this is very unfortunate, I wonder what resulted from all of this!