I'm dividing my photos from the riot/protest into three groups: press, cops, and protestors. This is the first of those three, The Press:

This is a perfect depiction, I think, of the bizarre relationship between cops and journalists:

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Here, this should give you guys a good idea of what it was like to be in the middle of a riot:



Intense doesn’t even begin to describe it.

Originally published at Teh Blog. You can comment here or there.

This is only a small fraction of the footage, but here, this should give you an idea. My night last night was 2 hours of this:

(I warn you, the video has lots of screaming and involves people being beaten with batons and is very disorienting, so it might be disturbing to some.)

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This is not an expression you want to see on a man holding a sword-sized riot baton:


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Holy.

Shit.

That was the most scary and yet exhilarating thing I have ever done in my life.

Holy shit.

Holy shit.

CRAZY footage tomorrow.

I almost broke my nose again.

Holy shit.

Okay, so yesterday I went to see Across the Universe at the E Street Theater. I was the only one in the theater, as it was midday on a Tuesday, which was awesome. I'll wrote more about that later. I was having dinner with my friend Kate, who works at the Capitol, around 6:15. On the way there, I noticed some sort of naval ceremony going on ( ( Read more... )