melissa hill camera3Updated: Melissa Hill, a “Civil Disobedience” candidate for Minneapolis City Council, tells about her arrest in Pittsburgh Friday while trying to cover the G20 protests for Indymedia. Hill says her camera was smashed and footage went missing during the arrest and the hours of incarceration that followed.

She was the star attraction at a press conference Monday morning in Pittsburgh with four other journalists who were arrested and say their equipment was intentionally damaged. According to a joint press release by Twin Cities and Pittsburgh Indymedia, the Glass Bead Collective and the Thomas Merton Center, at least six journalists were arrested, including one other Minneapolis-based Indymedia reporter.

Update: According to Twin Cities Indymedia reporter Nigel Parry, Nathan Monkelien is the other local arrested in Pittsburgh. He’s still in jail on $8,000 bail and faces two felony aggravated assault charges, a level-3 misdemeanor for disorderly conduct, and a level-2 misdemeanor for resisting arrest and failure to disperse. Monkelien was carrying a camera, he adds, and was swept up in the same arrests as Hill, who was released from jail.

Here’s an interview with Hill posted at YouTube. You can also follow her exploits with Keystone State cops (and other G20 law enforcement) at Twitter and Facebook.