{"id":144971,"date":"2026-03-21T23:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T23:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144971\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T23:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T23:52:07","slug":"police-disperse-crowd-of-several-thousand-people-in-pittsburghs-oakland-neighborhood-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144971\/","title":{"rendered":"Police disperse crowd of several thousand people in Pittsburgh\u2019s Oakland neighborhood \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Police dispersed a large crowd in Pittsburgh\u2019s Oakland neighborhood on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">According to Pittsburgh Public Safety, Pittsburgh officers, the mounted unit and Pitt police were called to Semple Street around 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">A gathering of several thousand people was disrupting vehicle and pedestrian traffic, officials say. The crowd didn\u2019t have a permit or permission to close the street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The crowd reportedly cleared just before 4 p.m. with officers on scene to ensure public safety and traffic flow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Officers stayed to watch over conditions as groups dispersed into other areas, officials say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Police dispersed a large crowd in Pittsburgh\u2019s Oakland neighborhood on Saturday. According to Pittsburgh Public Safety,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[66178,66175,73,66179,75,74,66180,66170,66176,66081,66169,66168,30418,59240,66171,66174,66172,66173,66177],"class_list":["post-144971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-oakland-crowd","tag-oakland-party","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-crowd","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-police-disperse-crowd","tag-sempel-street-st-patricks-day","tag-semple","tag-semple-street","tag-semple-street-crowd","tag-semple-street-party","tag-st-patrick","tag-st-patricks-day","tag-st-patricks-day-oakland","tag-st-patricks-day-party","tag-st-patricks-day-pittsburgh","tag-st-patricks-day-weekend","tag-university-of-pittsburgh-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}