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

[Jef Allbright]

Mike -

Have you ever considered that sometimes your approach may be just a 
teensy bit overly inflammatory? 

- Jef

Mike Lorrey wrote:

>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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