State Police report 51 people were arrested at three locations during last night's wending Ferguson protest march, which made its way from one highway ramp to another in what turned out to be vain attempts to block a highway.
Some 33 people were arrested on or near the Mass. Ave. Connector, where protesters first tried to walk onto I-93 south; 17 in Dewey Square; and 1 person on a ramp down to the O'Neill Tunnel at Purchase Street, State Police say.
All are scheduled to be arraigned today in either Roxbury Municipal Court (Mass. Ave. Connector) or Boston Municipal Court on disorderly-person charges. The person arrested on the tunnel ramp also faces a charge of trespassing on turnpike property.
State Police say one protester bit a trooper on the wrist. The trooper was treated by Boston EMS.
State Police say they kept their eye on protesters both in person and online:
Our Commonwealth Fusion Center monitored social media and other open-source information sources throughout yesterday and last night and provided critical intelligence about protesters' plans to try to disrupt traffic on state highways.
They add:
We will maintain an increased presence around potential demonstration sites in Boston throughout the next few days.
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Comments
Kudos to the young people for
By anon
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 9:54am
Kudos to the young people for demonstrating peacefully. Shows a great deal respect for the Brown family's wishes.
51 Arrests
By Hyde_Parker
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 10:27am
That doesn't sound peaceful to me.
Not violent, either
By Waquiot
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 10:29am
Except for the biter, which means there were as many biters in this group of protestors are there were in the Uruguayan World Cup squad last summer.
Most of the charges were probably the civil disobedience kinds, which will most likely result in continuances if that.
Thanks for the Suarez reminder
By John Costello
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 11:00am
I didn't need to be reminded of that with Liverpool going to get their hat handed to them today in Bulgaria without him.
Not just Suarez' fault
By Waquiot
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 11:17am
Sturridge is injured and the summer transfers haven't been integrated yet.
They'll win today. Then it is Europa League time!
51 out of an estimated 1,400.
By anon
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 10:42am
51 out of an estimated 1,400. Was there widespread violence and destruction? No. I would say especially compared to other protests across the country, Boston was definitely peaceful.
(I know the answer is no)
By tape
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 10:52am
You know there's myriad non-violent activities for which one can be arrested, right?
Proportionally, there are
By Rob Not Verified
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 11:01am
Proportionally, there are probably more arrests at a Patriots home game than there were last night. Also probably more disorderly conduct.
But less biting.
By dmcboston
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 4:20pm
But less biting.
Bad Math
By Suldog
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 9:24pm
I understand your point, but your math is bad. Gillette Stadium capacity is 68,756. There would have to be over 2600 arrested in that crowd to equal the percentage. I'm pretty sure there have never been 2600 people arrested at a Pats game :-)
OK, I'm off-line now. Happy Thanksgiving!
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Not that many are arrested at Gillette anyway....
By Pete Nice
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 11:26pm
1 or 2 PCs a game from what I hear.
I think
By anon
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 10:30am
Your definition of "peacefully" is a little bizarre!
Kudos? The idea alone of
By bstn2k14
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 10:33am
Kudos? The idea alone of attempting to block the highway on the busiest travel week of the year is moronic. What does it prove? Did they not think that it could have delayed response times for emergency vehicles? More people should have been arrested. Here's an idea, how about respecting authority and not acting in a threatening manner. I guarantee cops will leave you alone.
I think the problem is that
By tape
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 10:54am
I think the problem is that "authority" has proven itself to be unworthy of respect.
Also, a bunch of people walking is hardly "threatening".
Yeah! Respect authority!
By Bob Leponge
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 10:58am
If only the signers of that damn Declaration of Independence had followed your advice, everything would have turned out differently.
You're comparing police
By bstn2k14
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 11:18am
You're comparing police authority to what colonists experienced under King George? I don't think this comment box is big enough to explain how wrong you are. Please read a history book
Agreed, King George would
By anon
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 4:25pm
Agreed, King George would blush at some of the things police can get away with
What good would
By Windypig
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 11:07am
a protest do if it had no impact on anyone, just a bunch of people yelling in a park not affecting those around you? Dont go into PR or marketing I dont think you have a concept of how to sell a point.
And Fuck Authority - why should I respect authority - Authority murders people on the regular and then hides behind the badge. Authority deserves no respect because they havent earned it. The new militarized police force is state sponsored terrorism and a racketeering scheme directed against its own citizens. You might not see it now, memories of officer friendly blinding you, but you'll wake up one day.
Also it should be noted I have never once seen a protest that hasn't dispersed because of an ambulance, but i have seen them disperse many times, temporarily to let ambulances through.
Fuck authority?
By anon
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 12:53pm
Care to tell us about all those alleged murderous cops prowing the streets, shooting [i]innocent[/i] folks who are not shooting at them, beating them or trying to take their service pistols? Also, who are you going to call when you're in trouble assuming you're too busy yelling fuck the authority? Ghostbusters? And lastly, have you decided where you're going to ride your $5000 NJS-certified fixie so you can protest some more? That $600 Arc'Teryx coat and $1000 Black Diamond tent you bought for Occupy Boston (thanks rich daddy) are begging for some more use, though I must admit all those expensive climbing jackets looked a little funny when coupled with $300+ designer skinny jeans from Riccardi last time Occutards were in town.
Yep, here you go
By Windypig
Wed, 12/03/2014 - 6:53pm
Cops murder Kelly Thomas, a gentle homeless man with schizophrenia, because they didn't want him sitting in that area and threatened to “f--- him up” before killing him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedd...
Cops threw flashbang into baby's crib (with children's toys all around the yard of the house and with no police work to justify the warrant). http://www.salon.com/2014/06/24/a_swat_team_blew_a... http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/20...
Cops shoot and kill a 7 year old girl who was asleep during a midnight home raid (while film crews were filming for TV): http://countercurrentnews.com/2014/11/aiyana-stanl...
Cop kills unarmed man holding baby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMDIK4bOpwk
Cop shoot elderly man reaching for cane: http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/03...
Cops shoot to kill without even identifying the target: http://www.hlntv.com/article/2014/04/11/john-winkl...
Cop shoots and kills homeless Albuquerque man for no reason: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/10/albuq...
Cop kills innocent, unarmed father in a stairwell because he claimed the stairwell was dark: http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/21/us/new-york-police-s...
Cop’s record cleared for accidentally shooting boy in head: http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=44700
Cop shoots boy in chest when he answered the door, mistaking a Wii controller for a gun: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/attorney-teen...
Cops beat delusional man to death as citizens watch: http://atlasleft.org/washington-man-cries-for-help...
Cops unleash attack dog on innocent college kid already being restrained on ground by numerous officers, no punishment to officers at all: http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/02/us/police-beating-vi...
Cops shoot and kill elderly man in his own garage at night while checking out the wrong address: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/27/police-...
Cops shoot at man in streets in NY, hit bystanders: http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/15/justice/times-square...
Cops lied to obtain a no-knock warrant and shot and killed a grandma in her own home, then planted drugs to cover up the crime: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn_Johnston_shoo...
Cops shoots and kills honors student at college campus: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2519842/Va...
Cops shoot and wound man getting cigarettes from his own car at his own house for no reason at all: http://gawker.com/unarmed-man-shot-by-deputies-ins...
Cops kill man by compressing him while arresting him while he was distraught: http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/26/justice/oklahoma-arr...
Police shoot diabetic man after his wife called for medical help, they claim he picked up a knife: http://reason.com/blog/2013/10/07/woman-says-she-c...
Cops shoot man holding a toy gun in walmart with no warning and lied in their report. http://www.whio.com/news/news/crime-law/special-gr...
Covert officers assault girls for buying bottled water, cops thought it was alcohol: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/07/02/198...
Cops kill man with garden hose using a shotgun and no warning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6S7LRrCru8
Florida man survives 13 shots by officers while sitting in his car: http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/21/us/florida-shot-by-m...
Cops almost shoot and kill a hospital-worker in her own home with a warrant for an entire apartment complex and screaming at her door: http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20130718/COLU...
Cops raiding small friendly poker games with militarized tactics, accidentally killing people-- “Why did you shoot me, I was reading a book.”: http://www.salon.com/2013/07/07/%E2%80%9Cwhy_did_y...
Cop beats handcuffed teen and is acquitted because video ‘should only be used to protect cops, not prosecute them.’ http://intellihub.com/2013/07/05/judge-finds-cop-n...
Cop purposely holds onto door handle so he would have the right to shoot and kill a Sunday school teacher who was driving away from the cops. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embed...
Cop shoots man in back several times, then stands over him and shoots again to kill him—questionable whether the man actually was armed or not—conflicting evidence given. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=159PM7ZKcv0
It's not true that people in parks don't affect other people.
By mplo
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 1:29pm
I just don't think that protestors have the right to trample the rights of people who are simply going on with their daily lives and pleasures, etc., and cause hardships.
I've seen protests where it's been tougher for cops to move demonstrators aside. Every second of every minute of every hour counts when a person is being transferred to the hospital due to illness or serious injury, is the victim of a robbery or assault, or there's a fire someplace that emergency vehicles have to get to quickly.
"trample" is a pretty big word...
By lbb
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 1:58pm
...to use in reference to a traffic delay. Also "hardship". Just sayin'.
Either way...
By dmcboston
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 4:35pm
...protesters have NO right to interfere with my rights. My rights are equal to theirs. If I have the right, through proper licensing (my driver's license) to use a public thoroughfare, do they have the right to block it?
An old saying, "Your right to swing your fist ends before the tip of my nose."
If an injured person is in an ambulance, do they have a 'right' to be transported to a hospital?
If a black hairdresser has a salon, does a Social Justice Warrior have the right to loot it then burn it down because Social Justice?
Good point
By Markk02474
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 1:34pm
If protesters blocked a bike path nobody would care.
Shut up, you coward...
By MatthewC
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 4:18pm
You are probably a whiny, entitled brat. You've never understood what it is to serve. Most men and women in law enforcement would step in front of danger for imgou without a second thought. You ought to appreciate that more and quit crying.
No one ever claimed
By anon
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 11:07am
No one ever claimed protestors were reasonable or that their opinions made any sense. What else was that ferguson cop suppose to do? Get strangled ?
Blocking highways, and any
By anon
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 11:25am
Blocking highways, and any roadway for that matter, as well as access for hospitals is asinine. In total agreement with you on that.
I want my money back. You
By anon
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 2:46pm
I want my money back. You have been proven so incredibly wrong so many times. I wish it was possible to neg you here.
"Burn this bitch down!"
By jonbowen
Thu, 11/27/2014 - 3:05am
How is that peaceful?!
Trooper bitten? So much for
By anon
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 9:58am
Trooper bitten? So much for peaceful protests
One person out of over a
By Rob Not Verified
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 10:20am
One person out of over a thousand was an idiot and did something bad so let's paint all with a broad brush yayyyy
Sounds like at least 51 were
By relaxyapsycho
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 10:45am
Sounds like at least 51 were idiots, and given Evans' statements today, it was a lot more than that. BPD simply let many get away with pushing/shoving officers.
Sounds like 51 got arrested.
By lbb
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 1:59pm
And of course, nobody in these United States ever got arrested for a bullshit reason.
Unfortunately, all too often,
By mplo
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 1:21pm
All it takes for one or two idiots to ruin things for everybody else, and give everybody a bad name. Blocking or attempting to block a major highway, especially around the holiday time, really is beyond stupid, and way out of line, imho. The people attempting to block I-93 deserved to get arrested, as far as I'm concerned.
Cops are needed around, whether people like them or not. Otherwise, there'd be total anarchy around.
One or two idiots can only
By lbb
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 2:02pm
One or two idiots can only "give a bad name" to a multitude or a movement in the eyes of simpletons who are eager for any flimsy excuse to discredit the movement in question. And the necessity of police does not mean they should have carte blanche to commit violence, which is the de facto situation in America today.
I stand by what I've said, lbb.
By mplo
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 2:11pm
I'm not backing off from my positions on this subject!
Your problem, mplo...
By dmcboston
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 4:00pm
...is that you are a simpleton that is eager to discredit the movement in question.
As I am. As anybody is that disagrees with the above commenter.
There is no movement, per se. There is a dead kid and the cop that put him there. A grand jury found no bill. They released a pile of documentation. So, I guess justice was served, technically, but not to the satisfaction of those that have an agenda.
He then goes on to quote an aljazeera.com article, because when you need impartial, you need AL Jazeera.
I'm beginning to think he's just a friggin (or f*cking, if you prefer) troll.
You're calling ME a simpleton, dmcboston?
By mplo
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 5:20pm
You've got a lot of nerve there, buster. Or, are you just being snarky here?
Read the comment you responded to.
By dmcboston
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 10:31pm
I'm trying to actually back you. Reading comprehension...not snark.
okay...thanks for the heads up, dmcboston.
By mplo
Thu, 11/27/2014 - 1:15am
Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Very very large point missed.
By sunny
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 6:14pm
The protests are about so much more than Michael Brown. I can't believe someone has to type this for you.
The US did not break out into protest because of Ferguson alone. It was the latest example of how poorly black people are regarded in this country by some whites and the police and the judicial system.
It was also for the young black woman who was shot in the head asking for help after a car accident.
It was also for the young black man who was killed because someone thought he was playing his music too loud.
It was also for the young black man who was killed by police in Walmart for playing with a toy gun when Walmart seems to be the go-to place for gun carrying white people.
It was the young man who was killed by the police after a car accident.
The boy was killed - legit or not, we'll never know. But did his body really have to lay in the street for hours? Did the prosecutor really botch the case due to lack of concern? Did the police really need to wear "I support Darren Wilson" bands to work under agitated conditions?
Yup
By sunny
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 5:57pm
You summed it up well.
We need cops around, whether people want them or not.
By mplo
Thu, 11/27/2014 - 1:55am
I don't feel that I'm making flimsy excuses, nor do I consider these present protests part of a real honest-to-goodness movement against anything, either. The anti-war protests that took place back in the 1960's and early to mid-1970's against the U. S. Government's involvement with Indo-China were all part of a genuine movement. This protest is clearly not, because they pretty much came out rather disorganized, and spontaneously.
True-blue movements that took place during that above-mentioned period were, for the most part, peaceful, although some of them turned violent, also.
I'll also add that, during the recent Boston protests over the debacle in Ferguson, MO police officer's shooting of an unarmed young black man, there were a great deal more than just afew idiots. They had no business blocking a highway and preventing/impeding other people's right to get home, especially during the holiday time.
Wha?
By adamg
Thu, 11/27/2014 - 9:46am
Rosa Parks was not part of some well planned out national protest movement; she was just a tired lady who wanted to sit down. And yet look what happened.
You may not like what happened the other night, but you do realize that protests movements don't just spring out of the ocean like some Venus, no?
The Civil Rights Movement was a whole different thing back then.
By mplo
Thu, 11/27/2014 - 10:10am
Rosa Parks wanted to sit down, but her protest wasn't the only thing that got the Civil Rights movement going. It was a whole host of things, like a de-jure segregated south, where blacks couldn't even sit down to eat in restaurants, or patronize businesses in general, that were owned by whites. Blacks also had to use "Coloreds Only" toilets and water fountains, and could only sit in the back of the bus. It was all the sit-ins, etc., that finally eliminated this really virulent vestige of racism in the south.
Those protests last night were mostly done by young college kids, most of them white and middle-upper classed kids, not working-class kids. Working-class families only joined in the anti-war movement during our Indo-China involvement in the end, when they got sick and tired of seeing their own kids come home dead or maimed as a result of our wrong-headed war in Indo-China.
:) No shit!
By mplo
Thu, 11/27/2014 - 10:21am
I have a right to say, however, that I think that protestors have used some rather stupid, unnecessary and off-putting tactics that, imho, don't help their cause(s)....at all!
Actually Rosa Parks was part
By Daveydave
Thu, 11/27/2014 - 10:45am
Actually Rosa Parks was part of an organized campaign. Not that that makes what she did any more or less important.
Rabies test?
By Markk02474
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 1:39pm
Was the cop and/or protester tested? Might be suffering from mental imbalance like Logan streaker.
Hands up, don't bite!
By moxie
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 10:23am
Hands up, don't bite!
when interviewed
By BikerGeek
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 1:12pm
the suspect said, "braaaaaaiiiins".
Why can't the protesters just
By anon
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 9:59am
Why can't the protesters just go through the normal public channels to express their anger at being shut out of the normal public channels!? Also, get a job hippy, etc., etc....
Right On
By BostonDog
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 10:30am
If they don't want their votes suppressed they should vote for someone else.
Someone should tell them we live in a democracy where every person has a right to pay to have their voice heard.
Evans: BPD officers "showed tremendous restraint"
By adamg
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 10:17am
At a press conference this morning, Commissioner William Evans said "there was a lot of name calling, a lot of pushing and shoving," even some officers pushed to the ground, but that his officers "stood tall" and didn't raise their batons and handled the protests peacefully.
Evans said the vast majority of protesters were peaceful.
He said BPD was determined to keep protesters off highways to avoid "panic" there. Imagine a young mother in a car with kids in the back - she might panic in a situation like that, he said.
"If they got on the Expressway, there would be panic," he said.
Evans said he wants people to know Boston Police are not Ferguson Police - they respect people's right to protest.
Oh, Evans also said he recognized some of the protesters are people he got to know during Occupy Boston - said they're generally good people, he even wrote college recommendations for some of them.
Well done, Commissioner and
By Rob Not Verified
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 10:20am
Well done, Commissioner and BPD.
Kudos to Comm. Billy Evans!
By anon
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 10:33am
He seems like such a decent fellow and has the best Boston accent evah!
Let's take a moment
By Bob Leponge
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 11:04am
Let's take a moment to reflect on the differences between Boston and Ferguson, and to appreciate the fact that the Boston Police Department is, basically, a classy, professional outfit.
Well said.
By roadman
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 11:16am
Now if only the local media could remember that this is Boston and not Ferguson.
Yeah
By Kaz
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 11:30am
Not like that one city that shot a girl in the face with a "non-lethal" round killing her.
Or that other one that used facial recognition software to catalog every member of the public at Boston Calling.
Or the one where all the cops keep harassing people for recording them even though it's legal.
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2014/10/16...
I like Evans. I like that last night's protests went down without major incidents or police misconduct. I just don't think we should be so quick to hug it out without a better track record first.
Video recording harassment?
By Markk02474
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 1:50pm
Happened in Arlington MA at a public meeting of the Cemetery Commission! When a resident tried recording the meeting, the chair, told him he could not, and called three armed police officers to intimidate him. BTW, this was over his complaint that police officers (and others) were using the cemetery as a parking lot for their personal vehicles and the fire department was parking fire engines there and on graves when attending meetings in the community safety building (aka police station). The commission has yet to enforce state law against non-cemetery uses, and Selectmen have not changed members of this appointed board.
Corrections
By lbb
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 2:06pm
Aren't you a sweet little pumpkin
By Kaz
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 2:48pm
That poorly trained officer was trained by BPD, acting on behalf of BPD, was handed that weapon by BPD, and his intentions are irrelevant.
BPD acts on behalf of the city. They're not some mythically detached street gang that fights for justice and we're just lucky enough to have them here.
Also, you're right. She was old enough to drink. For almost a full year even. Lucky her. Correcting that really made a difference to the situation.
It's funny that the same
By Daveydave
Thu, 11/27/2014 - 10:47am
It's funny that the same people who hate the word girl love calling mike brown a teen (and would call him a boy if not for the racist implications).
If this is true
By anon
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 11:05am
Then Billy Evans is the best police commissioner this city's had in a long time.
Classy
By cybah
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 11:09am
Shows a sign of a class act. Not all cops are out to get you!
Boston Police are not Ferguson Police?
By O-FISH-L
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 11:54am
What a really shameless statement by Commissioner Mousey Evans. Barely 10 years after Victoria Snelgrove and you talk down to another department? Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson not only survived a life threatening encounter with a felony suspect but he was later at the mercy of a Grand Jury of his peers and totally exonerated. Maybe someday Evans will triumph over similar adversity. God Bless Officer Wilson and the Indian grocer who was robbed. Shame on Evans for casting a false narrative. If you worked patrol Bill, what would you have done differently?
Along those lines O-FISh
By Pete Nice
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 12:02pm
This ferguson incident could have happeend to any cop, or any other human being trying to defend themselves, in any part of the country. If it did happen in Boston, I would bet it would be similar to ferguson, maybe worse.
I dont think so
By Bob Leponge
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 2:31pm
I don't think so. What really casts the Ferguson PD in a bad light, in the estimation of people who have been paying attention, is not the shooting itself, but the completely ham-fisted handling of the protests afterwards. To most people, that, and not the shooting, is the problem.
Well it might be apples and oranges anyway
By Pete Nice
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 2:41pm
The ferguson police probably only has about 100 members, and most of them are probably assigned to patrol functions. If this happened in Boston? With all the hotels that protestors could come and stay in? The police would have had sections blocked off like the DNC. It may have been worse still.
He wasn't referring to the shooting itself
By adamg
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 12:03pm
He was referring to the riot gear and the APCs and the tear gas and the arresting reporters and getting the FAA to shut off airspace over the town and just generally making a complete mockery of the First Amendment in the days after the shooting. My apologies for not making that clear. I'm sure even Fox News showed a little bit of that, so maybe even you heard about it.
However, since you bring it up: There was one incident last night that really illustrated the difference between BPD and State Police:
Both departments had just successfully defended the Expressway (and without violence): The protesters had turned around and were walking back down the Connector towards Roxbury.
Everything was peaceful. And then several staties come roaring down the Connector with their blues and sirens going to, you know, ensure the protesters respect their authoritah or something. Just the way to rile people up. A BPD commander (not Evans, but one of his senior people) immediately got on the radio to get his dispatcher to contact State Police and get them to turn those off to keep things calm. They agreed and it worked.
As for Snelgrove, yes, that is a black mark on BPD. It was also ten years ago and done under a different commissioner.
I guess my point is that the protest would be 100x the size....
By Pete Nice
Wed, 11/26/2014 - 12:08pm
at least if it happened in Boston. Things may or may not have gone down as peacefully as they did last night.
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