{"id":42677,"date":"2025-11-23T22:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T22:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/42677\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T22:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T22:19:09","slug":"3-people-arrested-fights-dispersed-in-downtown-pittsburgh-during-light-up-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/42677\/","title":{"rendered":"3 people arrested, fights dispersed in Downtown Pittsburgh during Light Up Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/_YKXHdqOCyUF4n0ZxmNc2A--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTQyMDtoPTIzNztjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/wpxi_cox_articles_540\/891d754d1c216be4fe0dc5d44aaff89e\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police were needed to disperse a number of fights in Downtown Pittsburgh during Light Up Night on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RELATED COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/pittsburgh-light-up-night-2025-underway-after-110th-christmas-tree-lighting-downtown\/ZL5MGTFGCBBXTH2KDONW7XYVXA\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pittsburgh Light Up Night 2025 fills Steel City with celebration, illumination;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Pittsburgh Light Up Night 2025 fills Steel City with celebration, illumination<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Pittsburgh Public Safety spokesperson says large crowds were present throughout Downtown. Pittsburgh police responded to fights that broke out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During the night, multiple people were detained, 18 non-traffic citations were issued and three arrests were made, the spokesperson says. The details of those arrests were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Crowds of juveniles gathered mainly around Wood Street\/Forbes Avenue and Market Square, the spokesperson says. Several fights broke out in those areas, with police ordering the crowds to disperse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police continued to disperse crowds and deal with minor altercations for hours after Light Up Night ended, the spokesperson says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RELATED COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/police-prepare-keep-tens-thousands-people-safe-pittsburgh-light-up-night-2025\/C6ED6BX27BBA3EC52DUHOWRHYM\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Police prepare to keep tens of thousands of people safe at Pittsburgh Light Up Night 2025;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Police prepare to keep tens of thousands of people safe at Pittsburgh Light Up Night 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Between 75 and 100 police officers were to be stationed Downtown for Saturday\u2019s events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police were needed to disperse a number of fights in Downtown Pittsburgh during Light Up Night on Saturday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4623,13851,73,75,74,745,7089],"class_list":["post-42677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-downtown-pittsburgh","tag-light-up-night","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-police","tag-spokesperson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42677","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=42677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}