The only explanation I can think of is that it was chosen after some negotiations with the police.

This isn't an entirely bad thing, of course—the last thing I want to see is a return to the level of policy brutality we saw during the G20. And the number of people involved would make it impossible to hold a location that hadn't been mutually agreed-upon. If we had New York numbers, we might be able to hold a more strategic location, but we don't.

Still, it's a defanged version of what we're seeing in the States, for sure.