G-20 In The Burgh!!!

THE RUN DOWN

The G-20 has finally hit the BURGH and what do you think? Man, when first announced I was excited that this little city would get some shine around the world. Before I really looked into it, i envisioned it would be this cultural phenomenon like an influx of people from around the world would discover how beautiful this town is. As the days got closer, I learned about the protests that have happened with events like this in other cities and its effects. I did not know what to expect. And then huge amounts of law enforcement arrived. I saw Apache helicopters in the sky, National Security Vans, crazy FBI tank car vehicles, and even Palm Beach County Sheriff's vehicles taking over the city.

Their were 2 things going on. The Protests and the actual G-20 event. And both were going on just miles and minutes from me at anytime. After talking to people about the G20 and listening and watching news and dialogue I myself am torn about how I feel about G-20. Yes the world was watching. But it has seemed to me they were watching a lonely beautiful city. I would have loved to see shots of the city on the news of more than 4000 people enjoying a baseball game. I would have loved to see more people out on their boats enjoying the rivers rather than filled with the National Guard and Police Boats. I would love for them to take a shot of the city downtown with people waking around than cops upon cops. It even made me upset that these protesters broke the windows of my beloved Pamela's Restaurant in Oakland. Pamela's??? For real...

It was an was an eerie feeling last night DJing in Station Sq for a half filled club while just minutes and miles away the police were using riot gas on the campus of the University of Pitt. Some of these protestors college kids. I wonder where I would have been if I was still in school at PITT.

I'm still torn on how feel about G-20 I guess you can't win them all though. You can't make everyone happy and of course there''s always 2 sides of every story. I'm am sure PGH will get back to normal in a couple days. Hard working people will be back to work on monday and we will be toasting beers while cheering our STEELERS on sun!

My boy DJ Zimmie sent me this video showing the amount of officers being unloaded in the Oakland Area.

This is a video I took of OBAMA rolling down the Parkway West with his Entourage from the Kiss Studios.

This is a video of a girl throwing her bike at the cops and the cops beating her down.

I got Brick an Local Business owner in Shadyside to comment on what he thought about G-20

My boy Evan was shooting photos in the Lawrencville and in Bloomfield and he told me what he thought about his experience. You can view some of his photos atwww.triblive.com.

Even Jon Delano from KDKA got love from Obama when he called upon him to answer a question