Police reported no arrests today. Commissioner John F. Timoney, an avid biker, kept himself highly visible, chatting with demonstrators as he cruised around on his Trek mountain bike in black shorts and a police-issue white golf shirt. We have some concerns that there may be a few folks here to do other than peacefully protest. We're not going to relax until Friday. The police are ubiquitous.
Helicopters monitor crowd movement, while officers are posted on nearly every block of Center City.
The Secret Service is managing security around the convention hall, the FBI has gathered intelligence and state police from various states are here to protect their governors. Today was peaceful as promised. Unity 2000 organizers decided to eschew focusing on any single issue or set of demands. Instead, they threw the march open to a dizzying range of left-leaning causes, each of which would be able to set up an information table, or give a speech from the stage. But at times, the utopian goal of a grand alliance of progressive voices seemed to produce a kind of march of babel.