DIG 22.32 – 8/13/20
They “don’t trust either Trump or Biden with these powers, and believe they should stay lapsed whoever is in office."
GRAND IRONY OPERA: POLICE REFORM, FROM CITY HALL TO TRUMP MAJAL
MUSIC NOTES: REKS RETURNS W/ EVIDENCE, STATIK SELEKTAH, PHAROAHE MONCH
This week he drops the Statik Selektah-produced track “The Complex,” which features the god MC himself Pharoahe Monch.
WHAT MASS CAN LEARN FROM THE POLICE REFORM PROCESS ON BEACON HILL
Both bills were urinated on by legislative badgelickers, members with brothers and sisters on some force or another, etc. But it isn’t all bad ...
ANTI-MASKERS ARE BASICALLY FARTING IN OUR FACES SO I’LL BE IN MY BASEMENT FOR A WHILE
Did I say outside of the city? I meant that I just have to go to M Street, where the beach has been occupied by bronzed and brilliant young adults for weeks.
OPTIC BLOOM ON HEALING, HELPING, AND LETTING THEIR EXTRAORDINARY “SPACE GARDEN” SOAR
"Finding more opportunities like that, whether we can curate an event space, we were headed in that direction and we’ll be looking that way in the future."
KLAN BY ME: UNDERGROUND PRESS ARCHIVES SHOW HISTORY OF RACISM, VIOLENCE IN BOSTON
"The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) began to play an open role in the organized opposition to the busing–in part through harassing Black and Latin residents of Columbia Point, a housing project near South Boston."
YOU CAN FINALLY GET THE DIG DELIVERED TO YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS
Starting in August, we will send a sleek new biweekly print edition to members, alternating with a street edition that will also print 26 times a year.
RESTAURANT COVERAGE IN MASS IN THE WAKE OF THE TANTRUM GOURMET
POLICE VIOLENCE HAS BEEN IGNORED FOR YEARS. IT’S A GOOD THING THEY’RE LISTENING NOW.
The report noted “substantial problems in the leadership and management,” and found “a disturbing pattern of allegations of violence toward citizens by a small number of officers.”
DEAR READER: THE DIG IS BACK IN PRINT AND IN STREET BOXES THIS WEEK
Whether or not it is prudent to reopen, there is yet another epidemic raging that must be considered, and of course that is the problem of police violence.
