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G20 action videotape was generated by anti-capitalist protestors and the bankers' protectors from the Metropolitan Police. CBS' Mark Phillips noted sardonically that "no major international summit is complete these days without its requisite street theater of protest." ABC's Miguel Marquez first showed us an angry mob, then peace protestors, and then environmental street-campers, before offering the coup de theatre, activist actors "who tried to sneak in disguised as police in an armored vehicle." NBC's Stephanie Gosk presented a "good-natured and carnival-like" scene as four columns of protestors, complete with costumes and effigies, converged on the City as the Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Things did not finish so festive. NBC's Gosk saw police "pushing the crowd…charging…beating people on the head" while vandals ransacked the headquarters of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Watching a yellow line of police protecting the bank's property, a protestor asked Gosk: "Considering the damage the RBS has done to working class people in this country, where were the police then? Where are the police when families are getting evicted?"
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