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Mayor of a Pittsburgh suburb asked police to hose down protesters with water cannons | CNN

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Mayor of a Pittsburgh suburb asked police to hose down protesters with water cannons | CNN

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[dropcap]Karen[/dropcap] Peconi is the mayor of Arnold, a suburb of Pittsburgh. Her posts surfaced Monday with messages urging officers to hose down protesters, along with a historic 1963 image of water cannons being used against demonstrators in Alabama, according to CNN affiliate WTAE. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″]

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“I’m posting this so the authorities everywhere sees (sic) this … bring the hoses,” Peconi wrote, according to the affiliate. “They don’t care about jobs for PGH … none of them work now. That’s how they can do this at 7 a.m. Very sad.”

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