City Hall Plaza

The Herald was slow to rev up to the Mac Miller affair, but now it's in full-court mode: Dave Wedge has the mayor blaming burb thugs and citing Haverhill specifically as a possible hogmosh of teen violence. Because we know kids from Westie and Southie would never cause problems.

UPDATE: I originally posted a video showing a group of knuckleheads on City Hall Plaza punching each other out. YouTube took it down, claiming it violates its terms of service - but not before Barstool Sports saved a copy:

A concert by Pittsburgh rapper Mac Miller at City Hall Plaza tonight featured fights and ended in more fights and disturbances that brought police units from across the city.

Fights broke out from City Hall Plaza to Winter and Tremont streets - where dozens of panicked people who thought they heard gunshots suddenly started running down Winter toward Washington Street. Detectives looked for bullets or other evidence of gunfire but found none.

Tremont Street was briefly closed to traffic as police tried to clear the crowds.

Account of what it was like on the Red Line, both before and after the concert.

Water bottles flying before Miller took the stage (they continued through his set):

WBZ reports the Bill Russell statue will be built in City Hall Plaza, just up the steps from the Red Auerbach statue in Faneuil Hall Marketplace.

Privileged City Hall workers and contractors have, of course, been parking on City Hall Plaza for years, but the city's finally made the practice official by installing a guard booth and a permanent, if somewhat flimsy, gate by the T stop (Ed. note: See comments, which note the booth and gate have been there longer than an apparently unobservant reporter had thought).

This morning, the guard seemed to be spending most of his time rushing out of the booth to shoo away people trying to park in front of the three electric-car recharging stations on Cambridge Street to keep them clear for all those electric vehicles in Boston that need recharging. Even a Prius did not escape his glare and request to move.