Michele Malkin has a link to a story about anarchists who beat up a cop in San Fransisco.
Are these the same people who were present at the death of a Philly cop
A MATTER of seconds, protest chants fell silent and cops' stone-faced glares faded.Suddenly, it wasn't about power and activism or who was right or wrong outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center yesterday afternoon.
It was about one man, a cop of 19 years, who crumpled to the street and died apparently of a heart attack after a standoff between a blue line of cops and a corps of drum-banging idealists fighting the biotech industry came to a head.
Paris Williams, 52, who worked in the Civil Affairs Unit, lay motionless on asphalt as cops bent over him on Arch Street and performed CPR, trying desperately to save his life. Those protesting the biotech industry convention held at the center bunched together outside and moved towards the fallen cop.
They pushed forward, forming a human barricade. Some cops swung their bikes at demonstrators to move them away from the fallen officer, hitting some people.
Ian Cox, 16, of Moorestown, N.J., said he was standing taking pictures. "One cop turned and just punched me in the gut," he said.
"It's a shame," said Eileen Nathanson, 66, a protester forced back on the sidewalk on Arch Street near 12th. "They're all nice kids... I think it was a miscommunication."
Williams, a father of two, was rushed to nearby Hahnemann University Hospital, where doctors said his heart had already stopped.
Shortly after he was pronounced dead at 1:12 p.m., the mood on Arch Street turned solemn. The protesters walked to the Convention Center steps on Arch facing a line of cops gripping nightsticks.
Reports from some people at the scene report that the protestors kicked the police officer when he fell from his heart attack.
And these guys claim they are in the mainstream?
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