Post G20 Reactions from Pittsburgh
For some Pittsburghers, it was a rude awakening to see film footage of police battling activists and students in Oakland during the G-20 summit. But for Dan McCloskey, the wake-up call came a few days earlier: at around 1:30 in the morning on Sept. 21.
McCloskey woke up that night to a chorus of slamming doors. When he peered out the window of his attic bedroom to scan Lawrenceville’s Carnegie Street, the 22-year-old recalls, “Cop cars were stretched bumper to bumper the entire block. A flashlight hit my face, and a cop yelled, ‘There’s someone in the attic!’”
Read the entire article in the Pittsburgh City Paper.
erokOctober 2, 2009 at 9:02 pm
nice product placement
Ghost RiderOctober 2, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Yay! Another jack-booted thug article. I hope my city never hosts a G-20 (or any other) summit. Too much trampling of rights for my taste…
JeffSOctober 3, 2009 at 2:43 pm
What rights?
All events like this point out is that you don’t HAVE any rights.
jamesmallonOctober 3, 2009 at 5:59 pm
We have what few rights parceled out so we don’t cut their throats in the night: that’s how every civilization works. FDR got that, and stopped people from going hungry enough to cut the throats of people like himself. That lesson, like how building up a country like Germany or Japan after the war quashes insurgencies, is a lesson that’s going to get taught again.