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CURRENT STREET EDITION

DIG 23.02 – 1/28/21

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VIDEO: COP WHO BRAGGED THAT HE HIT PROTESTERS SHOWS HOW BAD APPLES THRIVE IN BOSTON

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted January 2, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

The woman later told police that he assaulted her, while “McHale had maintained that any contact between himself and the woman was consensual.”

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: Boston, Boston Police, George Floyd, lawsuits, news, news to us, Police, police body cameras, police brutality, police reform, protests

SPECIAL FEATURE: THE QUIET ONE

Written by SARA SELEVITCH Posted November 26, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

40 years ago this month, Fred Clay was arrested for a crime he didn’t commit. After 38 years behind bars, he’s telling his story and writing another chapter.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: Boston, Boston Police, Boston Police Department, BPD, corrections, criminal justice, Dan Conley, doc, Fred Clay, hypnosis, incarceration, jail, Jon Kater, law enforcement, lawyers, LWOP, Mass DOC, parole, Police, prison, prosecutorial corruption, Sean Ellis, Suffolk County District Attorney

SOME BACKGROUND ON THE WAR ON RACHAEL ROLLINS

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted January 9, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader, NEWS+OPINIONS

Other than some Trump-supporting scoundrels and police who get paid lavishly to make appearances in court after arresting people on small crimes, I don’t know anybody else who thinks the legal system ought to regress. In Suffolk or anyplace else.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Boston Police, BPD, cops, court, Dan Conley, District Attorney, Massachusetts, Rachael Rollins, Suffolk County

REMEMBERING THE MAY DAY RIOTS

Written by PETER ROBERGE Posted May 1, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston

As tensions grew between authorities and socialist types, one infamous standoff in Roxbury in 1919 showed just how grisly things could get. At Monroe Avenue and Humboldt Street, activists and Boston cops fought hand to hand until police backup led to more than 100 arrests.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: 1919, Boston, Boston Police, Dirty Old Boston, labor, May Day, May Day Riots, protests, throwback, unrest

FRONT AND CENTER: RACE PLAYS INTO THE BOSTON MAYORAL ELECTION IN MORE WAYS THAN YOU REALIZE

Written by OLIVIA DENG Posted November 1, 2017 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

While both candidates have positioned themselves as the best choice for addressing racism in a city that is 53 percent people of color, their outlooks on related issues and strategies regarding how to fix things differ substantially.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: 2017, 2017 Mayoral Race, ACLU, affordable housing, Boston, Boston Police, Boston Police Camera Action Team, BPD, Brawl for City Hall, cops, Housing, Marty Walsh, Mayor Walsh, mayoral race, naacp, Police, police brutality, policing, race, racial inequity, Roxbury, Tito Jackson, William Evans

GUEST MEDIA FARM: BOSTON POLICE SOCIAL MEDIA MONITORING PLAN ENDANGERS US ALL

Written by EVAN GREER Posted December 6, 2016 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS

Even the government’s own reports admit that bulk data collection programs have never actually prevented a major violent attack.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Big Brother, Boston Globe, Boston Police, BPD, City Hall, Facebook, Fight For The Future, social media monitoring, surveillance, Twitter

SPIN MASTERS: JEFF ROSS ROAST COOKS THE FACTS

Written by JAMARHL CRAWFORD Posted September 28, 2016 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

The overriding concern here is that the BPD once again proved itself masterful at misrepresenting facts, and of presenting officers in a positive media light.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: accountability, Blackstonian, Boston Police, BPD, BPD Headquarters, BPPA, comedy central, Commissioner William Evans, Friars Club, Jamarhl Crawford, Jeff Ross, mayor Marty Walsh, police brutality, police shootings, public relations, Roast, Roastmaster, Roxbury

RARE FOOTAGE: THE BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTEST TAPE MUCKROCK GOT FROM BPD IS AMAZING

Written by EMILY HOPKINS Posted December 15, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical

It’s ironic that the very tool the BPD hopes will suppress these kinds of actions will, thanks to FOIA and a little crowdfunding, allow the event to live on forever.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical Tagged With: BINJ, Black Lives Matter, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Boston Police, BPD, Emily Hopkins, FOIA, freedom of information, MuckRock

HEIST ANXIETY: THE MYTH OF MASS MEDIA OUTRAGE OVER STOLEN ART

Written by DIG STAFF Posted May 26, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm

There is an unhealthy divide in the Boston media in which a handful of mega outlets dominate the narrative, rarely allowing information from the lower rung to penetrate.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm Tagged With: Art, art theft, Boston, Boston art theft, Boston Globe, Boston Police, BPL, Charles Brooks, Charlie Baker, FBI. BPD, Gardner, LACMA, NECN, Rembrandt, WBZ

SPEK OF GENIUS

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted March 31, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

A Mass graffiti martyr resurrects for his debut solo show

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Adam Brandt, Boston, Boston Police, CAYPE, graffiti, jail, Mass graf, Salem, spek

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