Word: copse
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According to Knox, these two women were among a group of both male and female cops who browbeat a false confession out of her in the middle of the night almost two years ago. They deny it.
As the first order to disperse went out, marchers slowed and chanted their defiance, but also retreated to regroup and then ran into another line of riot-ready cops and police vehicles as they neared an alternate route - the first of several direct avenues to the summit site they tried...
As the protesters redirected what turned out to be a winding, three-hour trek, they pushed more Dumpsters into the street, or downhill toward law enforcement, and smashed the windows of a Boston Market and Mini car dealership, along with 17 banks and other businesses, by police count. The cops...
Still, the first confrontation between anarchists and cops was over quickly. The police took less than half an hour to block the anarchists' way downtown, stopping them on the wide expanse of Liberty Avenue and forcing them to reroute. "I hereby declare this to be an unlawful assembly," came the...
The organizers of the protest had refused to seek an official city permit. But the march had the citizens' attention. On every main thoroughfare, onlookers filmed the spectacle, some offered water to marchers, others cheered on the cops. (Why is the G-20 Being Held in Pittsburgh?)