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WALSH SIGNS ORDINANCE FORMING POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted January 5, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

The office is intended to regulate police misconduct.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Marty Walsh, Office of Police Accountability and Transparency, police misconduct, racism, tear gassing

HOW A MOTORIST IN LAWRENCE WAS NEARLY KILLED FOR REQUESTING THAT A COP IDENTIFY HIMSELF

Written by MAYA SHAFFER Posted June 23, 2016 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

“You’re going to see people drawing their guns, all pointing their guns into my car.” Steven Cepeda is describing his terrifying encounter with Lawrence police after he was stopped in the lot of a pizza shop on April 14.

 

“Then a police officer on ...  read more

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: ID laws, Lawrence, Lawrence police, Massachusetts, police abuse, police brutality, police misconduct, police reform, racial profiling

BAD LIEUTENANTS: NO STATE TALLIES ON SEXUAL MISCONDUCT BY COPS

Written by EMILY HOPKINS Posted November 2, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical

It’s laughable to think that Massachusetts doesn’t maintain such data, especially considering the amount of other information that authorities here collect on us.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical Tagged With: Associated Press, Boston, cameras, hypocrisy, Massachusetts, police brutality, police misconduct, sexual misconduct, silence, surveillance

TROUBLESOME: THE COP-CODDLING PROHIBITIONIST BALLAD OF HOWIE CARR AND HIS RACIST CALLERS

Written by MIKE CANN Posted May 6, 2015 Filed Under: Blunt Truth, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

What’s always left out of hate radio conversations, of course, are the root causes of rioting: institutional racism, hopelessness, etc.

Filed Under: Blunt Truth, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #BlackSpring, Baltimore, Black Lives Matter, Boston, drug policy, Howie Carr, police brutality, police misconduct, talk radio, Tupac, War on Drugs

WATCHING THE WATCHMEN

Written by EMILY HOPKINS Posted April 29, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical

How could a man who was running just moments before somehow sustain a crushed neck and a severed spinal cord?

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical Tagged With: Baltimore, Black Lives Matter, Freddie Gray, Michael Slager, police brutality, police misconduct, south carolina

AND THE AWARD FOR MOST OPPORTUNISTIC USE OF THE BALTIMORE SITUATION FOR CLICKS GOES TO …

Written by DIG STAFF Posted April 28, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS

In other places, Patch was more reserved in its fraudulence.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Baltimore, Freddie Gray, irresponsible journalism, Massachusetts, media, new england, Patch, police brutality, police misconduct, police violence, press, riots

BOSTON’S BESTEST ANNUAL GRATUITOUS SEASONAL PROTEST PIECE

Written by DIG STAFF Posted April 27, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

With such precedents in mind, it’s important to keep watch as younger actions blossom, and as veteran activists find new direction.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Beacon Hill, BHSC, Black Lives Matter, Boston, Boston Globe, Boston Homeless Solidarity Committee, Boston Tea Party, Cambridge, Charlie Baker, City Life Vida Urbana, Elizabeth Warren, Fannie Mae, Fight For 15, foreclosures, fossil fuel divestment, Freddie Mac, harvard, Housing, labor, Local 26, Maura Healey, mayor Marty Walsh, No Boston Olympics, police brutality, police misconduct, Protest, service workers, spring, State House, tufts

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