More local takes

Here are some local takes on G-20 goings-on:

Infionymous writes about the library incident we noted earlier:

Before Chief Tim Delaney and Chief Nate Harper get too attached to their lies stories about how the 'innocents' had been permitted to and had dispersed, and that all of the Pitt students rounded up by police had been 'there for a [culpable] reason,' they should consider this:

Reliable reports -- which, I am told, university employees can corroborate -- are emerging that a number of students studying in a library were aggressively rousted by police, forced outside (where they were promptly gassed), and physically assaulted with nightsticks and shields.

Oh, and one such student's parent is a trial lawyer.

And he's p***ed.

Any chance that guy's name might be on a pink message slip on Nordenberg's desk first thing Monday morning?

It will be interesting to compare Pitt's treatment of students involved in Friday's festivities with Pitt's traditional treatment of varsity athletes who kick the hell out of other students, 12-year-old paperboys, or police officers. So far, it doesn't look good.

That's Church says the whole thing went rather well for Ravenstahl and Onorato (Warning: bad language at link):

Now that the G-20 is wrapped up with a pretty bow and shipped away, and now that the garbage cans have returned to the city sidewalks, which of course Lukey was going to protect his garbage cans, he paid a QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLARS for those puppies, just a few final thoughts:

1.  A bartender at a local eatery told my husband that a group of anarchists were in there having a meal, bragging about the "destruction" they rained down on Pittsburgh, etc. and after their meal was over the little whippersnappers paid with a bank card. No Banks! No Borders!

2.  Nicky Sarkozy never called me for a drink. (I've been informed via twitter that both sadcakes and sad panda are outdated and I'm lame if I continue to use them, so for now I'll say ... poopers!)  Poopers.

3.  In hindsight, on the whole, I thought the G-20 was handled exceptionally well and I thought Pittsburgh, the city not the people because we the people were in hiding, looked beautiful for the event.  I'm thrilled that no businesses went down in flames, that no police were injured (that I know of), and that police/civilian relations were for the most part uneventful.  I imagine this successful G-20 will reflect well on Lukey and Danny Boy come election time.

Matt Hogue rounds up a bunch of videos at Pittsburgh Hoagie.