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...17th Street, Police Commisioner John Timoney, who traveled the city by bike throughout the protests, ran into a group of masked demonstrators who were busy stomping on a black Toyota Camry...
...While Timoney escaped with cuts and bruises, another police officer lay prone on the ground. One of the demonstrators had slammed his head into a bicycle...
...live with almost anything," Police Commissioner John Timoney has said, describing his strategy for responding to this week's RNC-related protests...
...Commissioner Timoney - who impressed Sunday's demonstrators as he cycled from group to group in shorts and polo shirt, shaking hands and making nice - seems to have made the right tactical choice in his force's mix of relentless civility and unexpected accommodation. Timoney, for example, granted out-of-town demonstrators permission to camp out in Fairmount Park's Memorial Hall. And while police could've shut down today's march, they didn't. As the KWRU group began to siphon down the east side of Broad, 33 helmeted and mounted policemen lined...
...Tuesday, when the Philadelphia Direct Action Group is likely to launch its RNC protests, Timoney's velvet-glove approach may be more severely tested. After all, PDAG is an intentionally decentralized amalgam of "affinity groups," and the group that those in local government and law enforcement consider to be purely anarchistic. Certainly, PDAG's stated mission to disrupt the conference has convention boosters on edge. If, as has been the case so far, no conflict happens in the streets and no surprises happen inside the convention center, local news anchors will have no choice but to continue following around visiting...