G20 - Pittsburgh Protesters March as G-20 Leaders Gather- by Brian K. Sullivan
Pittsburgh police threw tear gas and blasted high-pitched sounds to disperse hundreds of protesters marching toward downtown in a demonstration aimed at today’s meeting of the Group of 20 nations. “Here comes the cavalry,” one of a smaller group of protesters and performance artists said shortly before 2 p.m., as Arsenal Park filled with demonstrators wearing black masks and carrying banners reading, “Eat the rich.” After shouts of encouragement, they began marching in defiance of police warnings that the assembly was unlawful. Police tossed smoke and gas canisters and set off whistles to try to break up the march, while protesters overturned trash bins and broke the window in a police car.
Stores and offices were boarded up and highways and mass transit lines were shut today as President Barack Obama and the leaders of 18 other industrialized or developing countries, along with the European Union, convened in the western Pennsylvania city.
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