Angus Farquhar, Online Video Producer

G20 protests - Citizen video from the thick of the action

With the G20 protests taking place just a few miles from where I work and my cycle route home taking me directly past them, I have been lapping up all the media coverage of the events, both official and unofficial. But once again it wasn’t the mainstream media that gave me the best look at what was gong on down there.

Several times on the BBC News Channel I saw the same footage of a guy jeering at the police with blood running down his face. It did look disturbing in it’s own right, but it was twitter that brought me the other side of the story with a Tweet from @CurrentUK.

The article on Current.com didn’t provide all the news but acted as a channel for people to post what they could see was happening.

So amidst all the personal accounts from both sides of the fence comes two amazing peices of video from right in the thick of things that capture exactly what happened before and after the guy was struck by the police (warning: clips contain very strong language and violence) .

Now I will admit that the BBC reporters were in the crowd at the protests and did get some good footage but the best way to get the full picture was to see through the eyes of the protesters themselves.

Published by Angus Farquhar (02/04/09 - 13:49)