What the hell is wrong with philly
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/breaking_news/11951775.htm
A 52-year-old police officer died yesterday after apparently suffering a heart attack in a face-off with demonstrators during a small and otherwise controlled protest outside the BIO 2005 conference at the Convention Center.
Officer Paris Williams, a 17-year veteran working in the Civil Affairs Unit, was trying to prevent protesters from nearing the entrance of the Convention Center.
His death came midway in a day of eclectic protest that brought hundreds into the heart of the city at lunchtime to protest everything from the banning of skateboarding at JFK Plaza to genetic engineering in foods.
Waves of skateboarders took to the streets and reclaimed JFK Plaza, also known as LOVE Park, if only briefly. At the same time, "BioDemocracy" demonstrators tried to bring their warnings to the stewards of the biotechnology-industry meeting in the Convention Center.
Williams was in a line of plainclothes police officers blocking Arch Street between 12th and 13th Streets at 12:40 p.m. They were backed up by bicycle police and patrol officers with nightsticks.
As the protesters came face to face with police on Arch Street, shoving broke out. Officers and demonstrators grabbed one another, causing a brief scuffle.
In pictures taken by an Inquirer staff photographer, Williams can be seen in a scrum with protesters. A minute later, he collapsed.
Williams was rushed to Hahnemann University Hospital by Fire Department paramedics. He was pronounced dead at 1:05 p.m.
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/breaking_news/11951775.htm
A 52-year-old police officer died yesterday after apparently suffering a heart attack in a face-off with demonstrators during a small and otherwise controlled protest outside the BIO 2005 conference at the Convention Center.
Officer Paris Williams, a 17-year veteran working in the Civil Affairs Unit, was trying to prevent protesters from nearing the entrance of the Convention Center.
His death came midway in a day of eclectic protest that brought hundreds into the heart of the city at lunchtime to protest everything from the banning of skateboarding at JFK Plaza to genetic engineering in foods.
Waves of skateboarders took to the streets and reclaimed JFK Plaza, also known as LOVE Park, if only briefly. At the same time, "BioDemocracy" demonstrators tried to bring their warnings to the stewards of the biotechnology-industry meeting in the Convention Center.
Williams was in a line of plainclothes police officers blocking Arch Street between 12th and 13th Streets at 12:40 p.m. They were backed up by bicycle police and patrol officers with nightsticks.
As the protesters came face to face with police on Arch Street, shoving broke out. Officers and demonstrators grabbed one another, causing a brief scuffle.
In pictures taken by an Inquirer staff photographer, Williams can be seen in a scrum with protesters. A minute later, he collapsed.
Williams was rushed to Hahnemann University Hospital by Fire Department paramedics. He was pronounced dead at 1:05 p.m.
