Protesters outside the mayor's house. Photo by Live Boston.
Cicia Lee reports on a protest outside Marty Walsh's Lower Mills home at 6 this morning by people who want to defund Boston Police.
Live Boston reports on the protest by the group, For the People:
Chants could be heard threatening to oust the Mayor in the next election as well as chants directed at the Police Commission to be ready at his house for their next wake up call. The group blocked the street, placed candles and flowers as well as attempted to glue “report cards” to the sidewalk in front of the Mayors home.
The group quietly dispersed at approximately 06:30 hours with no incidents.
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I think you need to use the loud music standard.
By Pete Nice
Mon, 06/22/2020 - 10:12am
The 1st Amendment guarantees peaceful protest. 6am probably crosses that line, just like playing loud music would.
There is no law which says you can’t go up to someone’s front door and ring the doorbell to say hi. There is some case law (Jehovas Witnesses, US mail, etc) on who can legally come to your front door, and there are so many loopholes people could use to get around the current form of “protest” which is happening at someone’s house:
-what if they did if every morning at 5am?
-what if a different person rang the doorbell each day?
-what if they blasted music from cars at 5pm each day
-what if they drove around his house/neighborhood for a few hours a day, honking a horn and then leaving after honking once and then having another car come in and honking again?
At some point a judge is gonna need to rule on what is “peaceful” or not.
I also agree that they should
By Anon 2
Mon, 06/22/2020 - 10:29am
I also agree that they should not be at his home in this manner . I did not like it when it happened to Charlie and I do not like it here. I just find your line in the sand to be weird. Someone knocking on his door is the line? I knock on doors all the time.
Showing up a someones house
By Anon 2
Mon, 06/22/2020 - 10:48am
Showing up a someones house like this is tacky
Showing up at someones house like this during a pandemic is dangerous
Showing up at someones house early on a Sunday swearing is disrespectful
Want to play a fun game? How about going online and seeing how people reacted to Charlie being protested at his home by right wingers and seeing how the reactions different when it was left wingers with Walsh. You will find quite a bit of hypocrisy built into the arguments.
This is not winning anyone over. Never underestimate a liberal coalitions ability to take a hand and overplay it until the American public decides they are bored and or upset by the self righteous tactics and end up voting Republican or moderate. This builds resentment and anger. Legally I guess they can do it but it really turned a lot of people off. Seems like tactics like this are more about the participants feeling accomplished rather than getting anything done. It did not work well for the Swampscott brigade with Charlie and it will not work here with Walsh.
Look at the primary before the Pandemic hit. Biden just kept marching forward even as he fell back even as his opponents tripped over themselves to outflank Bernie on the left. You could tell someone was a week away from ending their campaign when they began swinging wildly at Biden. It sunk so many contenders that looked like they could be strong because they made things too personal and the electorate shut them down for it. People are sick of this sort of divisive politics employed by Trump and his counterparts on the left and honestly just want people to figure stuff out. Not disrupt the neighbors of the Mayor.
Inaccuracies
By 19 something 5
Mon, 06/22/2020 - 11:31am
The people who did this protest have posted on instagram indicating you got a few of the facts wrong Adam. They've tagged you, but it seems like you might not use the account much seeing as the last post was from 2017.
The protesters claim they made no mention of protesting at the Commissioner's house.
Also, "attempted to glue," is a poor choice of words when they literally did glue report cards to the sidewalk.
However, I am on Twitter a lot
By adamg
Tue, 06/23/2020 - 9:18pm
And a member of the collective tweeted at both me and Live Boston, and, well, he has a recording of several people saying the commissioner's house was next, so ...
As for the difference between "attempting to glue" and actually gluing, I guess you got us there.
When Bostonians were pissed about the police enforcing slavery
By Anonymous
Mon, 06/22/2020 - 12:27pm
In the 1800's. This is a portrait of fugitive slave Anthony Burns, whose arrest and trial in Boston under the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 incited riots and protests by white and black abolitionists and citizens of Boston in the spring of 1854. The portrait is surrounded by scenes from his life, including his sale on the auction block, escape from Richmond, Virginia, capture and imprisonment in Boston, and his return to a vessel to transport him to the South. Within a year after his capture, abolitionists were able to raise enough money to purchase Burns's freedom.
Today, people want change in how Boston Police are policing Boston, and they're saying that we spend too much on police. Two things the mayor has more control over than any other elected official.
We are rapidly approaching a
By Alex Sm
Mon, 06/22/2020 - 1:33pm
We are rapidly approaching a situation this week where the City Council will vote down the city budget for the first time in a long time. If that happens, we'll see how representative the demands of activists are compared to the city residents who want their trash picked up, want to be able to call 311, and have the many services we all take for granted. All of that will be cut or shut down if there is no budget. The same with city employees who will be laid off in the midst of a pandemic and recession; employees who are mostly not highly paid and represent a diverse swath of the city's population. The rubber is about to meet the road here.
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By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 06/22/2020 - 2:52pm
And you were all so busy arguing the morality of a 6 AM Sunday home visit, you didn't bother to point out that they were protesting Marty Walsh.
You know, the establishment Democrat stooge who took a break from his mayoral duties in 2016 to go pal around with Hillary Clinton at that dumbass convention. THAT'S the guy whom you believe is going to cut the police budget out of kindness and/or intelligence?
Menino without the need for subtitles. It votes against establishment career Democrat politicians or it gets the hose again.
Hell, I'd be happy if it voted at all at this point. Someone above already pointed out the embarrassing turnout from last time. I look at that (expletive) in Kentucky where the county of 610,000 is going to have one poll open tomorrow, and I think about how Allston-Brighton has an eighth of that with a half dozen polls, and I'm sickened with how we take that for granted.
fine points
By berkleealum
Mon, 06/22/2020 - 3:30pm
but not sure what one has to do with the other
Isn't that group called "Fuck the Police"?
By StillFromDorchester
Tue, 06/23/2020 - 10:32am
Did they change it to "For The People?"
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