{"id":223877,"date":"2026-06-20T13:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T13:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/223877\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T13:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T13:24:08","slug":"pepper-spray-used-to-disperse-crowds-of-disorderly-teens-in-pittsburghs-market-square-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/223877\/","title":{"rendered":"Pepper spray used to disperse crowds of \u2018disorderly\u2019 teens in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Market Square, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Pepper spray was used to disperse crowds of hundreds of juveniles in Market Square on Friday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">A Pittsburgh Public Safety spokesperson says hundreds of juveniles were gathered in the square, fighting and being disorderly. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">At one point, pepper spray was used to disperse the crowds. Three officers were exposed to pepper spray and were treated by medics on scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">As of Saturday morning, the public safety spokesperson says officials are still putting together the total number of people arrested or detained, and the number of firearms recovered from the incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">An official with Mayor Corey O\u2019Connor\u2019s office confirms the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/pittsburgh-introduces-temporary-chaperone-policy-market-square\/T6FG67IMSVHHZNAGXGKTRJFN3A\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/pittsburgh-introduces-temporary-chaperone-policy-market-square\/T6FG67IMSVHHZNAGXGKTRJFN3A\/\">Market Square chaperone policy<\/a> was not in effect since a permitted special event was occuring. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">This is a developing story that will be updated as Channel 11 learns more. <\/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 Pepper spray was used to disperse crowds of hundreds of juveniles in Market Square on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[75025,746,12510,97286,97285,97287,16899,73,75,74,97288,97289,31552,66400],"class_list":["post-223877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-fighting","tag-juveniles","tag-market-square","tag-market-square-dispersed","tag-market-square-fights","tag-market-square-pepper-spray","tag-pepper-spray","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-teen-fights","tag-teen-takeovers","tag-teens","tag-teens-fighting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223877","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=223877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}