"I want an apology"

A Pitt grad student asks for an apology from police for Friday's actions:

It should be noted, however, that Friday's activities should in no way be considered a reaction to the G-20.

It was, instead, a reaction to the excessive preemptive build up of heavily armed and armored officers in the Oakland area. You are to blame for provoking this.

You are also to blame for using volatile and harmful substances near entire buildings of completely innocent college students - non-lethal does in no way mean harmless.

You are to blame for massive overreaction where students are concerned. In the age of instant media, in an age of curiosity, in an age of any large mass of people simply being interesting, you are entirely to blame for not being able or willing to separate the idea of bystanders from those inciting groups of people.You are likely to blame for overreacting to what those groups of people were doing - causing further problems.

You are, in many ways most of all, to blame for invading Pitt's property trying to break up groups of innocent students who are curious about what is happening on their campus, and trying to go home. There was no reason to put armed officials or non-lethal crowd dispersal through the Quad/Towers area. That is our campus, and I hold you accountable for making it unlivable completely unnecessarily. There is no reason your actions in those areas could not have been replaced by better methods - getting the university to return to its policy of only allowing students with valid Pitt IDs to be signed in, for instance, would have left any out of town inciters in the open. You should have left that area open so that students would feel safe rather than hunted.

Both sides acted poorly, but you [should] know better. You have training, you have people to think about responses, and you are not an uncentralized mob.

I want an apology.