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  • Did Philly police just bike-doze Mayor Kenney's relationship with progressives?

    07/06/2018 2:11:56 PM PDT · by BBell · 15 replies
    http://www.philly.com/ ^ | 7/6/18 | Chris Brennan & Holly Otterbein
    Mayor Kenney faced a backlash from progressives after police officers on Thursday bike-dozed a modest encampment of protesters trying to shut down access to a local office for the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The mayor, who has held plenty of high-profile news conferences in City Hall to decry President Trump’s zero tolerance on immigration, was nowhere to be found as police officers used bikes to push down beach umbrellas and other encampment equipment. Kenney spokeswoman Deana Gamble said the mayor shared activists’ frustration with ICE. However, she said, protesters cannot obstruct access to the ICE building at Eighth and...