Activists try to disrupt start of G-20 summit, police react
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HAMBURG - Anti-globalization activists set dozens of cars ablaze and tried to block leaders' delegations from entering the grounds of the Group of 20 summit Friday, a second day of protests as the meeting got underway in the German port city of Hamburg.
Dozens of officers built moving lines in different parts of Hamburg and used water cannons to force away protesters from streets across the city. Some were physically moved for hundreds of meters (yards) from a protest sit-in in front of the first security checkpoint near the summit grounds.
Police later tweeted that all leaders made it safely to the city's convention center where the summit is taking place. None of the activists managed to push into the no-go zone around the summit that the police had established.
