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not include gun-toting protesters, but it does describe another sort of
weapon: teeth. As in, a pro-reform protester used his teeth to bite off
the finger of an anti-reformer.
According to KTLA, a group of anti-health care reform protesters set up
across the street from about 100 pro-reform demonstrators at a
MoveOn.org-sponsored rally. Apparently, a pro-reformer walking through
the anti-reform group to join the rest of his gang got into an
altercation with a 65-year-old man who was on the anti-health care team.
What happened next is not entirely clear. The initial report from KTLA,
citing an unarmed witness, said the man who got his finger bitten off
was walking through the anti-reform group to get to the pro-reform side
and punched someone from the anti-reform side, who responded by biting
off the pro-reformer's pinky.
Richard Thomas
wrote:
Oh, don't stop there.
Late Update: Eric Ingemunson at RedCounty has more details from the
rally. After speaking to several eyewitnesses, Ingemunson says the
finger-biter apparently went nose-to-nose with the anti-reformer "and
sneered, 'You're an idiot.'"
At that point, I'm told the victim either swung at or pushed his
assailant's face away with an open hand, and his finger entered his
mouth.
"It was a defensive strike," said Scott Bush, who witnessed the
altercation. He said the assailant approached him in an unpredictable
and threatening manner.
The MoveOn.org protester then allegedly bit off the finger up to the
first knuckle, and spat it into the street where it was recovered by
Bush.
"I picked it up and it had a piece of gravel stuck on it," he said.
Bush rushed it to the hospital.
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