Members of the Pittsburgh Organizing Group aren't strangers to confrontations with police: The group often demonstrates outside military recruitment centers and at antiwar protests. But Noah Willumsen says he was surprised by an April 3 altercation on Shadyside's Ellsworth Avenue, where he alleges he was choked by a police sergeant, William Vollberg.

The picketers' target was the Marines recruiting center on Ellsworth -- part of POG's two-year-old anti-recruitment campaign. Willumsen, of Bloomfield, says the event attracted about 25 sign-holding demonstrators. "None of us were expecting anything to happen," he says. "I don't want to say it was boring, but it was pretty slow."


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