PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Police arrested three protesters Thursday morning as a group of Grays Ferry residents disrupted construction at the site of a proposed parking garage for Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Dozens of law enforcement officers showed up at the protest, made up of about two dozen demonstrators who blocked the construction entrance to the site of the planned 1,000-car parking garage at 30th Street and Grays Ferry Avenue, which will service the CHOP facility on the other side of the Schuylkill River.
“Their mission is to heal kids, and they’re planning something that is gonna actively harm kids,” said Maggie Foster, who lives in the area…