In all, 190 people, including at least two reporters, were arrested during the summit Thursday and Friday.
Mayor Luke Ravenstahl said the police response would be evaluated and urged people who felt wronged to make formal complaints, but he praised law enforcement. He said there were no major injuries and less than $50,000 in property damage was done.
"We were prepared to keep our city safe and we did so," he said Monday.
About 110 of the arrests happened Friday in the city's Oakland section, home to the University of Pittsburgh and the scene of nighttime protests Thursday and Friday.
Nathan Lanzendorfer, 23, of Pittsburgh, showed off large bruises on his legs and left arm at a news conference Monday at the Thomas Merton Center, a Pittsburgh anti-war group.
He said he was shot with rubber bullets as he was trying to leave the area Friday night. Lanzendorfer said he didn't hear any dispersal orders and was just following others when he was shot.
"This was unjust, unfair," he said.
A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter was arrested Friday and charged with disorderly conduct and failure to disperse. The reporter, Sadie Gurman, declined to discuss the arrest and referred The Associated Press to her comments in a Post-Gazette story in which she said she was arrested on Pitt's campus "while truly trying to get out of the fray."
The other reporter who was arrested works for Twin Cities Indymedia, a Minneapolis-based organization that says it reports from "inside social movements against capitalism, imperialism, and injustice."
Melissa Hill, 30, of Minneapolis, said she was swept up in a mass arrest and held for about six hours. Her camera was returned broken and without the footage she shot, she said. Police said she was charged with disorderly conduct and failure to disperse.
"I think being a journalist ... it should be obvious that you are there basically just to cover this. You're not participating in the protests," she said. "You want to be the eyes for the whole entire world to see what's going on."
Hill and several others described the scene as confusing and threatening, partly because the police line was continually shifting. Some said they were bystanders who became trapped by police.
Deputy Chief Paul Donaldson said he didn't understand those claims. Dispersal orders were given about 15 minutes apart and, as police moved people out of one area, the crowd simply gathered in another area, he said.
He said he issued the dispersal order Friday night in Oakland, because he didn't want a repeat of Thursday's protests, which resulted in some property damage.
As of Monday morning, the city had received five complaints, including from a business-owner who had tear gas get inside the establishment.
The Citizen Police Review Board, a city-sanctioned panel, said it had gotten nearly 50 complaints. The board plans to hold public hearings looking into, among other things, how police manage public order and whether the level of disruption Friday night warranted police response, said Elizabeth Pittinger, the review board's executive director.
Despite the complaints, government and business officials expect the G-20 to reap rewards for years to come.
VisitPittsburgh president Joseph McGrath said two groups are interested in booking the David L. Lawrence Convention Center as a result of the G-20. He also estimated the summit brought in $35 million to the region so far.
Bill Flanagan, of the Pittsburgh G-20 Partnership, estimated that the city would have had to spend $100 million in advertising to get the kind of media exposure brought about by the summit.
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