[extropy-chat] Police Officer Dies After Brawl With Biotech Protesters

[Mike Lorrey]

Now the luddites are committing murder...

--- Joseph Bloch <jbloch at humanenhancement.com> wrote:

> I hope nobody we know is attending Bio 2005 
> (http://www.bio.org/events/2005/)...
> 
> http://www.nbc10.com/news/4632819/detail.html
> 
> Violence between biotech protesters and police in Center City 
> Philadelphia has turned tragic. A Philadelphia police officer has
> died 
> after a scuffle in Center City on Tuesday.
> 
> The officer, Paris Williams, 52, may have died from a heart attack
> but 
> homicide is also investigating the case. He is a 19-year veteran.
> 
> Williams collapsed near the end of a brawl between protesters and
> police 
> that lasted for several minutes near 12th and Arch Streets. Some 
> protesters were seen being taken away in handcuffs by police after
> the 
> incident. The fallen officer was taken away in an ambulance.
> 
> Police department spokesman Jim Pauley said Williams was pronounced
> dead 
> at Hahnemann University Hospital shortly after 1 p.m.
> 
> The street in front of the convention center is now closed to
> traffic. 
> Earlier, protesters chanted and pounded on drums, and blocked the 
> entrance to the convention center.
> 
> Several hundred protesters had started marching to the Convention
> Center 
> from 16th and Arch Streets before 12 p.m.
> 
> Some groups associated with a wave of violent attacks on
> biotechnology 
> companies said in advance they planned demonstrations outside the 
> Biotech convention center Tuesday.
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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com

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