{"id":145816,"date":"2026-03-23T09:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/145816\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T09:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:26:18","slug":"3-juveniles-arrested-20-treated-for-pepper-spray-exposure-after-fight-in-market-square-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/145816\/","title":{"rendered":"3 juveniles arrested, 20 treated for pepper spray exposure after fight in Market Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three juveniles were arrested Sunday in Downtown Pittsburgh after police say a fight broke out among about 40 people during which pepper spray was used, according to Pittsburgh police.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to reports of a large gathering of juveniles at Forbes Avenue and Market Square around 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>A fight broke out among about 40 people outside. During the incident, police said some juveniles began using pepper spray.<\/p>\n<p>When the officers\u2019 verbal commands to disperse were ignored, they deployed pepper spray to disperse the crowd and restore order, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police did not say what charges, if any, the three juveniles taken into custody would face. Their ages were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics set up a decontamination area and treated about 20 people at the scene for exposure to pepper spray, police said.<\/p>\n<p>No one was taken to a hospital, and no officers were hurt, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three juveniles were arrested Sunday in Downtown Pittsburgh after police say a fight broke out among about 40&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-145816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-pittsburgh","9":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","10":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145816","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=145816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}