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Police repulsed anarchists, gay activists and other protesters across Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday, arresting 560 people as they tried to block traffic and many as they simply walked on sidewalks. The action prevented what was to have been a major show of civil disobedience outside Madison Square Garden on the second night of the Republican convention.
About 200 arrests came as the War Resisters League, a pacifist group, marched about 1,000 strong from Ground Zero toward Madison Square Garden. And police arrested about 150 people who were standing on sidewalks about four blocks from the Garden and refused police orders to disperse. Scores of riot police surrounded Union Square late Tuesday as about 1,000 protesters gathered on the periphery, then dispersed without incident.
Confrontations sometimes turned physical, as undercover police officers tackled bands of anarchists marching down the middle of the city's broadest avenues.
"It appears that some of the hard-core groups are still trying to get to the Garden," said Paul Browne, deputy police commissioner for public information. "But we're not letting them through."
The United States of America in 2004. posted by micah holmquist at 9/01/2004 11:28:00 AM
