A group of about 70 people marched through the streets of the University of Pittsburgh campus last night, protesting police confrontations with G-20 demonstrators during the past few days in Oakland.

The protesters, chanting obscenities to police, started marching shortly before 11 p.m. from Schenley Plaza down Forbes and up Meyran before heading back to the plaza, where the group eventually dispersed an hour later.

Police followed slowly behind with sirens off. At one point, additional police units arrived in riot gear as enforcements, if needed.

Friday night, 110 people were arrested after police in riot gear confronted a crowd of more than 400 students and young people on the Pitt campus.

Pitt sophomore Eva Resnick-Day said she was Maced while trying to flee Friday's protest but was back again Saturday night to protest the police treatment of her and others. She said Friday's rally started uneventfully. "It was completely peaceful," she said.

That rally quickly escalated and police gave the order to disperse. She said she obeyed the order. "I actually ran away because I was afraid of getting hurt," she said. But she soon ran into police blocks from the Schenley Plaza protest site and was sprayed with Mace.

About 10 protesters seemed to be among a core group of people leading last night's demonstration. Students came out to watch, some joined the protesters and others watched from across Forbes Avenue.

One resident of an apartment building called out from his window: "Go home, hippies ... you're stinking up my city!" Someone from the street below yelled back: "They're Pitt students, they are home!"

On Forbes Avenue, a Pitt police officer stopped his car in the middle of the road and yelled at a group of students watching the protest, telling them to move along, saying "This ain't no show."

Among those watching the protest across Forbes were a group of out-of-town protesters who had come in for the G-20 summit demonstrations.

Dave O'Bryant, of Lancaster, Pa., said he was interested by the grass-roots activism of the Pitt students.

"It's a logical reaction to what's happened over the past two nights (Thursday and Friday) on their campus," he said.

Earlier in the evening on Saturday, about 35 protesters had gathered in front of the Allegheny County Jail for a vigil in support of those arrested Friday.

Bearing signs that read "Who disturbed the peace?" and "peaceful protest," the protesters were singing and chanting, "stop arresting innocent people." Others held small candles.

"When you use repression like this, you radicalize people who were never radicalized before," said Albert Petrarca, a 59-year-old Highland Park resident who was arrested during a protest in Lawrenceville on Thursday.

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