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...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 up two by two off to one side, exhibiting the restraint that, so far, seems to be keeping this from becoming the next Seattle...
...days now, investigators, police experts and television-news viewers have been watching and rewatching a 28-sec. tape. In that short yet endless sequence, they scan for clues to explain why so many Philadelphia policemen are surrounding a man, stomping and punching him as he lies on the ground, wounded...
...front of one of the row houses, Dolores Dandridge had just placed a table outside to serve her grandchildren lunch. From out of nowhere, she says, nearly a dozen policemen streaked after Jones about 100 yds. from her. Dandridge watched as about five or six officers caught up to him. "The police were swarming around him like bees swarm honey," she says. "They began to beat him, punching him and kicking him. He had his hands in the air, and I didn't see any gun. People were screaming at the police, telling them to stop, that they were going...
When four white New York City undercover officers were acquitted in February of charges that they murdered African immigrant Amadou Diallo, they may have hoped their legal troubles were over. In fact, they may just be beginning. On Tuesday, Diallo's parents filed civil charges against the policemen and the city. It's a hefty suit, complete with symbolism-laden monetary demands: Kadiatou and Saikou Diallo are asking $20 million in damages and $41 million for pain and suffering - one million dollars for every bullet fired on their unarmed...
...police continued to battle mostly peaceful protesters challenging the international financial system and demanding debt relief for the world's poorest countries. Heavy-handed policing has, however, for the most part allowed the annual meetings of the bank and fund to proceed unmolested. Still, images of riot policemen dragging young Americans off the streets of the nation's capital, and of blue-collar workers making common cause with turtle-hugging environmentalists has reinforced the idea, in the public mind, that there are many Americans unconvinced about the virtues of globalization. "Like the earlier Seattle protests over trade, the Washington protests...