{"id":83089,"date":"2026-01-10T06:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T06:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/83089\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T06:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T06:08:11","slug":"police-deploy-pepper-spray-to-disperse-large-fight-between-juveniles-outside-pittsburgh-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/83089\/","title":{"rendered":"Police deploy pepper spray to disperse large fight between juveniles outside Pittsburgh school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Police said they used pepper spray to break up a large fight happening outside of a Pittsburgh school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Pittsburgh Public Safety said officers were called to Obama Academy in East Liberty at 8:41 p.m. on Friday for reports of 200 juveniles gathered in a parking lot following a sporting event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Police said they saw around 40-50 kids fighting when they arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Officers from multiple zones were at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Police say pepper spray was used to break up the crowd and restore order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Investigators said no injuries were reported from civilians and that no officers were injured. <\/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 said they used pepper spray to break up a large fight happening outside of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7011,6889,4738,7012,7013,7014,4029,7015,7016,7017,7018,7019,4813,7020,1681,5609,7021,7022,7023,7024,7025,7026,7027,7028,7029,73,75,74,206,7030,7031,2009,7032,7033,7034,7035,7036],"class_list":["post-83089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-abstract","tag-art","tag-background","tag-beam","tag-beautiful","tag-beauty","tag-black","tag-bright","tag-bulb","tag-color","tag-colorful","tag-concert","tag-design","tag-effect","tag-entertainment","tag-event","tag-flare","tag-flash","tag-glow","tag-illustration","tag-lens","tag-light","tag-magic","tag-optical","tag-party","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-police","tag-ray","tag-shine","tag-space","tag-splash","tag-stage","tag-star","tag-streaks","tag-sunny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83089","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=83089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}