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Final thoughts about the G20 in Pittsburgh
Stay away from my city, for the love of god.
Assholes who came to wreck the city: Thankfully there were only a handful of you, one in particular who came all the way from California just to smash some windows. Other than that, I was fearing the worst from you and was surprised it wasn’t too [...]
The G20 Protest – Part 4
The Pittsburgh G20 Protests: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
I continued to watch the events unfold on television, morbidly waiting for the abject horror of something happening. Something that would rise out of ignorance on both sides of this protest. Would it devolve into chaos, if so, when? I started to wonder if [...]
The G20 Protest – Part 3
The Pittsburgh G20 Protests: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 4
I returned to my seat at the bar to watch the madness with a purpose – which may never succeed – unfold on TV. Protesters and Police standing off a good distance away from each other, both slowly advancing. In the crowd a large [...]
The G20 Protest – Part 2
The Pittsburgh G20 Protests: Part 1 | Part 3
I looked outside and sure enough, swarms of black-clad people were coming up 36th and rounding the corner on to Penn Avenue. Car alarms were blaring, some of the people outside were running, several with more purpose than others. I yelled out to nobody in particular, “Jesus [...]
The G20 Protest – Part 1
The Pittsburgh G20 Protests: Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
We were somewhere around Lawrenceville, on the edge of the Strip District when the tear gas began to flow. Riding down just ahead of the protesters when a group of police on bicycles flew by me and I remember saying, “I feel a bit [...]
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