Police leave G-20 protesters meeting without incident

By Sadie Gurman

A group of ACLU legal obsevers were on hand in Greenfield tonight when dozens of police officers in squad cars, vans and a hazardous materials truck pulled up near Murray Avenue, where a group of G-20 protesters were meeting.
Members of the anarchist and anti-authoritarian Pittsburgh G-20 resistance project, which was meeting to coordinate tomorrow's demonstrations, said they counted about 40 police officers in helmets and face shields. None of the officers approached group members,  but instead left about 40 minutes later without incident.
Protesters gathered in the street outside the group's "convergence space" at  Murray and Hazelwood avenues were advising each other not to go inside nearby businesses for concern that the police would return.
A spokesman for the group, Noah Williams, called the show of force "bullying" and said it was not the first time he had noticed police near the meeting space.
"It's a psychological attack," he said. "They want people to feel threatened constantly."
The group said it is planning one major event tomorrow afternoon, an unpermitted march starting at Arsenal Park in Lawrenceville, but Williams added, "We hope to see a variety of forms of resistance."