NP police kill protester in Genoa - eyewitness account

[Terrance]

Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
> > The protesters threw rocks; a policeman fired a gun at a protester armed
> > with a fire extinguisher.
> 
> "Far from a sickness, violence may be an attempt to communicate, or to be
> who you really are." --Thomas Pynchon, 1966,  still under 30 (slightly) and
> trustable.

Yeah, well it makes for wonderful fiction and pretty poor
journalism. 
Pynchon doesn't seem to know what the hell he is talking
about. The little bit on virility is very naive and if
written today could be considered racist, but of course we
know his heart is in the right place anyway.