Police disperse crowd of several thousand people in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood

Police dispersed a large crowd in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood on Saturday.

According to Pittsburgh Public Safety, Pittsburgh officers, the mounted unit and Pitt police were called to Semple Street around 1:30 p.m.

A gathering of several thousand people was disrupting vehicle and pedestrian traffic, officials say. The crowd didn’t have a permit or permission to close the street…

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