Police Use Painful New Weapon on G20 Protesters

By: Allison Kilkenny

This technology has been deployed in Iraq as an “anti-insurgent weapon” – it could easily be used as a torture tool.

Pittsburgh police demonstrated the latest in crowd control techniques on protesters when they used “sound cannons” to blast the ears of citizens near the G-20 meeting of world economic leaders. City officials said this was the first time such sound blasters, also known as “sound weapons,” were used publicly.

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