By Pits’n'Pots Reporter.

Police were braced for another day of violence in London today after officers were pelted with bottles as they tried to save a protester dying on the street.

The man, believed to be in his 30s, had collapsed at a makeshift camp set up near the Bank of England. He was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at hospital.

Protesters are already on the march in the capital again today as the G20 summit started in earnest to agree a rescue deal for the global economy.

Police have already made their first arrests this morning after demonstrators gathered outside the Stock Exchange, threatening to disrupt the financial markets.

One man was taken away by police after a brief chase and a scuffle and a second was detained for arguing with officers.

A small group of protesters gathered in Paternoster Square next to St Paul’s Cathedral as a steady stream of City staff arrived for work.

Dressed in top hat and tails, they played a giant game of Monopoly using crates full for fake money and huge fluffy dice.

Across London, the Excel Centre in the Docklands was surrounded by a ring of steel as world leaders arrived to trash out a global action plan on the economy at today’s crucial summit.

Snipers could also be seen at the Excel Centre while policewere turning back anyone without a pass within a half mile radius.

So far, the area is quiet but protesters plan to converge their later raising fears there will be a repeat of yesterday’s violence.

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At least 86 protesters linked to the G20 summit have already been arrested over the last 36 hours.

Four people have already been charged, three for possessing a knife and another for assault.

Almost 5,000 police officers and other security officials will be on duty in the capital again today to try and keep the demonstrations under control.

Yesterday, anarchists hijacked protests in the City. They clashed with baton-wielding officers and ransacked a bank as they taunted police and bombarded them with missiles.

Senior police fear yesterday’s protests were a ‘dry run’ for more disturbances, noting that ‘riot generals’ had been orchestrating violence.

Known Italian and French anarchists were also among the crowds in the Square Mile.

One snarling man, blood apparently pouring from a head wound, goaded officers for several minutes as others pressed forward challenging police lines chanting: ‘Whose streets? Our streets.’

At one point he lay on his back, arms above his head, as at least four policemen stood over him.

The mob had thrown ‘bombs’ of red dye at police, hitting at least one officer and making him appear as if he was bleeding from a head wound.

Some 63 were under arrest last night while four police officers and seven protesters were injured.

Among the crowds yesterday were groups of young men and a large number of women in what police called the ‘uniform of anarchists’ – dark top, trousers and boots with hat and mask.

Larger demonstrations are planned today and tomorrow as the business of the London summit finally begins in the Excel Centre in Docklands.

Police, who have cancelled all leave and called in specialist officers from 30 forces, were expecting to make further arrests last night after studying CCTV footage of the disturbances. Helicopters were used to track suspects as they tried to slip away from around the Bank of England.

Metropolitan Police Commander Simon O’Brien, one of the officers overseeing the £7.5million G20 security operation, said elements among the protests had been ‘determined to hijack’ them.

‘We believe these were the sort of people we have been monitoring on the internet and on-line,’ he said.

‘Some of these seemed to be quite experienced and determined protesters in that they wanted to get involved in a violent protest and not lawful protest.’

The day had begun peacefully with demonstrators marching from Tube stations past specially boarded-up buildings to the Bank of England urging those who had lost their homes, jobs, pensions and savings to join them in following the ‘four horsemen of the apocalypse’ to ‘lay siege’ to financial institutions.

Crowds shouted ‘one solution, revolution’ and ‘climate, justice and peace’ while others carried banners proclaiming ‘Balls to the Banks’ and ‘Punish the looters.’

They were met by derision from City workers, who waved £10 notes from their offices at marchers on the streets below.

Environmentalists, anarchists, anti-war protesters and workers hit by the financial crisis responded to their taunts with shouts and jeers and demanded action from world leaders.

Last night police, who still had several hundred protesters penned in the square outside the Bank of England, used batons to beat away attackers after they ripped apart metal crowd control barriers and began hurling them at officers.

Riot police were up to six-deep at the cordons, which were backed up by riot vans and mounted officers on horses and the demonstrators were unable to break through. Traffic lights were set ablaze.

Among those arrested were 11 held after officers found police uniforms in the back of an armoured vehicle parked in the City of London.

It seems that any attempts at staging peaceful protests were thwarted from hard line rioters who seem hell bent on violence. Often these rioters are made of of political extremists from both sides of the political divide.

Whatever people feel about the G20 summit, we should consider the cost of policing this event and preventing organised violence.

£7.5million pound is a substantial amount of money, but these protests have come at a greater cost than that, and that is the cost of a human life.

Source: Mailonline