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By Douglas Bennett - 9/3/13 - 10:06 am

Click on this link to watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZszLm-CCmio&feature=player_detailpage

Jean Jackson, the owner of La Paix barber shop at 1059 Hyde Park Avenue in Boston, testifies how Suffolk County Interim Sheriff Steven Tompkins unlawfully pulled out his badge and demanded that the store owner remove Douglas Bennett for Sheriff's sign "because it was too early to put up campaign signs..."

By massmarrier - 10/29/10 - 2:20 pm

The Globe and BZ radio report in breaking news that Chuck Turner was just found guilty on all four counts.

By Brett - 1/21/10 - 4:01 pm

Adam posted earlier about Ed Davis swearing that lying will get you "fired". It may sound familiar.

Circa July 2009:

The words an officer writes down in a police incident report, the statements an officer makes to Internal Affairs investigators, the sworn testimony an officer gives to a grand jury or in court - it has to be truthful or else, Davis says. “The penalty will be termination, no matter the officer’s reputation. First one - and you’re out.’’

By Brett - 8/21/09 - 11:31 am

Why? Mainly because of all the illegally parked Boston EMS trucks, Department of Public Health SUVs, and the news vans- all there for a conference at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center. The Channel 7 news crew was even blocking the sidewalk with their camera gear, sitting unused and unattended.

By Brett - 11/13/08 - 7:47 pm

Kevin John Sowyrda wonders:

...what exactly would it take for the upper chamber of the Great and General Court to expel one of their own for actions unbecoming a member of the Commonwealth’s not so elite, 40-member club?

By Quantum Mechanic - 10/30/08 - 11:26 pm

The Boston Globe reports that Wilkerson will not resign despite the State Senate's unanimous resolution asking her to do so.

By adamg - 9/11/07 - 8:53 am

Scott Allen Miller notes that former Boston police officer Carlos Pizarro pleaded guilty to cocaine possession charges and that part of his plea involves agreeing to testify against other officers arrested in an alleged bad-stuff ring, including Kiko Pulido:

... Pizarro might want to move his loved ones and valuables into hiding, or at least make sure his homeowner's insurance is paid up.

By adamg - 7/25/06 - 10:55 am

Sco supports the idea of a subpoena-issuing Ward-Commission like investigative body to look at the Big Dig, but he wonders:

... The question remains, is there anyone left in Massachusetts who is both politically savvy enough to take this on and politically independent enough to make sure no responsible party is spared?

By adamg - 7/22/06 - 12:43 pm

That's the good news in the Boston Police identity-theft, coke-dealing, alien-smuggling corruption investigation, Mats Tolander writes.

Steve Gilliard notes that the guy at the center of the investigation, motorcycle cop Roberto "Kiko" Pulido, seemed pretty busy protecting illegal parties and organizing other nefarious schemes:

... I wonder if this guy ever arrested anyone? ...

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