Crowd causes trouble in the South Side of Pittsburgh and six people have been arrested

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A crowd gathered in the South Side of Pittsburgh over the weekend and as of Saturday morning, six people got arrested. Some in the crowd caused mischief and the incident involved police and items getting hit by some projectiles as well as some fireworks being thrown. According to a criminal complaint for a man accused of throwing fireworks, two police officers were injured after a man threw a lit firework at them, leaving them with slight or small burns. Police confirm projectiles were used against them by some people in the crowd, one officer was hit with a rock and vehicles from police were targeted with projectiles. Among the six people that were arrested was eighteen-year-old Kylie McCracken of Ambridge, twenty-year-old Delricco White of Duquesne and twenty-three-year-old Ronald Pelton of McKees Rocks.