Today things are pretty much back to "normal," so to speak, after yesterday's events. In some parts of the city you could still smell the tear gas from yesterday, the barricades are still up, and riot police are everywhere. Nonetheless, people are going about their normal lives, waiting to see what happens next.
Yesterday's events are a hot topic of discussion, however, with police brutality at the forefront of the debate. Many people witnessed with their own eyes what they would call brutality- for example, attacks against peaceful men, women, children and elderly who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. I saw on television police excessively beating down a man who appeared to unintentionally collide with passing riot police. The footage very clearly shows officers who passed him after he was already down and out kicking and beating him with rubber batons.
In addition to the news available from the major networks, I would encourage you to read these more personal accounts of yesterday's events:
http://www.pestiside.hu/archives/seeing_through_the_smoke_of_budapests_black_monday002831.php
http://riotsinhungary.blog.hu/
The first link in particular has fabulous pictures from throughout the city- what many have described as a war zone for a day. That is not an exaggeration.
Kelsey
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