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Pictures of G-20 Stuff - 9/24/2009
Self | 9/25/2009 | Jaxter

Posted on 09/25/2009 5:20:16 AM PDT by Jaxter

Tried to get these posted last night but I had some technical difficulties. These are pictures I took yesterday afternoon roughly between 2:45 amd 3:45. I didn't see any violence and only saw one arrest. Some guy wearing a sombrero. The police were very professional and exercised great restraint. It was the Bush Doctrine - overwhelming force.

Looking up Liberty Ave. torwards Lawrenceville/Bloomfield.

One block over on Penn, looking the same direction.

32nd and Penn

Same intersection, a little closer

Some of the sickos tried to sneak through between Penn and Smallman via Mulberry.

The idiots in the orange hats were ACLU observers.

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I think this is the "acoustic weapon" everybody was talking about in the middle of the pic.

Have to have a few drunk Yinzers celebrating the Pens Stanley Cup.

ACLU observers making sure the fake Stanley Cup didn't get thrown at any of their precious anarchists.

Some nitwit dressed like Abe Lincoln. He was welcoming everybody to America.

Some of these anarchists were pretty pathetic.

Back on Liberty. This is Cheerleaders Gentlemen's Club. It is one of the listed targets for today's festivities as is the building I work in.

There were a whole lot of rental vehicles everwhere being used by the police.


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To: sbMKE

Yeah. But I wouldn’t dismiss them as just kids though.

But yeah the whole “sound weapon” thing is WAY too dystopianistic.


41 posted on 09/25/2009 7:46:21 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: onemiddleamerican

“the black robocop outfits have some intimidation value”

Yeah, mainly to the TV viewers.


42 posted on 09/25/2009 7:52:13 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: Jaxter

Thanks for posting, hope your leg feels better today after a good soak in the tub.

Was this an older or industrial part of the city?

I noted a lot of buildings posted for sale or closed, lots of grass and weeds in and on the sidewalk and in the gutter and a lot of very old/damaged ute poles.

Looked like as many photogs as protesters.

Anyway, keep up the good work, we have a town hall meeting tonight (Anchorage), I will try and get some pics as well.


43 posted on 09/25/2009 8:09:58 AM PDT by ASOC (Cave quid dicis, quando, et cui)
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To: Jaxter

Great photos...and very good judgment in not showing the police ‘rooftop’ presence.

Gearing up for the ‘big’ protest today. Hopefully all goes as well...but you want to know how I think this is going to play out? Pgh ‘over reacted’ too much police; too much spent; stiffling free speech; the success of the (keeping prayers going here) THIS in our fair city will be spun to the negative.


44 posted on 09/25/2009 8:49:08 AM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (Hey BOR, saying 75k attended the 9/12 March in DC is like saying Octomom gave birth to triplets!)
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To: Varda

LOL...those kids with the Cup had to be yunzers from Lawrenceville, Bloomfield, Oakland (waaaaay south of Forbes—where I grew up). Tough crowd...don’t want to spend their weekend boarding up their mom’s living room window.


45 posted on 09/25/2009 8:52:46 AM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (Hey BOR, saying 75k attended the 9/12 March in DC is like saying Octomom gave birth to triplets!)
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To: ASOC

Just neighborhood in Pittsburgh is older. Those row houses in the background I am sure are over one hundred years old (I grew up in one like that in another Pgh neighborhood).

These are people who are not wealthy...there are a few ‘trendy housing areas’ (S. Side Flats; Mexican War Streets; Shadyside—where old, gentrified housing has been ‘redone’—but not Bloomfield/Lawrenceville).

I loved the kids with the Penguin stuff...too cool...anyone of the them could bitc# clapped an anarachist (or ten) w/o any PD help.


46 posted on 09/25/2009 8:57:34 AM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (Hey BOR, saying 75k attended the 9/12 March in DC is like saying Octomom gave birth to triplets!)
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To: PennsylvaniaMom

Thanks for the reply.

Given that Alaska is bearly (ya, a pun) 50 years old, we don’t have a lot of older buidlings that are not made of sod or logs.

The area just looked ‘down at it heels’ with all the weeds and such.

Have a good weekend!


47 posted on 09/25/2009 9:02:55 AM PDT by ASOC (Cave quid dicis, quando, et cui)
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"Was this an older or industrial part of the city?"

This is in the upper Strip District/lower Lawrenceville area of the city, which is mostly old buildings and pretty run down. I live across the river in Sharpsburg which is getting pretty run down itself. I hope to be retired and out of there in 3 or 4 years. There were many more police and curious civilians like me than protestors where I was.

48 posted on 09/25/2009 9:13:58 AM PDT by Jaxter (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum.)
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