Fire in the Skies
On 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.
Several began to attack him.
He fought back.
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.
Reports circulated among protestors about police brutality. By nightfall Tuesday, 285 demonstrators were in jail, 20 patrol car windows were broken, five cars' tires slashed and four police officers injured.
A few hundred demonstrators still lingered at Thomas Paine Plaza next to city hall, supporting Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black radio journalist sentenced to death for the murder of a Philly cop in 1981.
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