The Globe reports Boston Police are investigating an incident at Washington and Lesher streets in Roslindale in which an officer trying to get a suspect into a cruiser during an arrest briefly put his hands on the guy's neck - after the guy started resisting getting into the cruiser and screaming as a crowd of his pals rushed the scene.
The Globe points to an excerpt of this video (NSFW for language) showing the arrest.
The video, which was originally uploaded to Facebook on Saturday, starts with an officer using his own phone to record a guy standing in the middle of Washington Street while plainclothes officers investigate something at the Domino's. When the guy yells "Fuck the pigs, my nigga, fuck these nigga bitches, suck my dick, nigga!" to the camera, one of the cops decides to arrest him - on charges of disorderly conduct and blocking traffic.
After he was peacefully handcuffed, a crowd of teens gathers round, he starts resisting getting into the cruiser and screaming about what he wants to do to the cops, the kids start screaming and pushing and a uniformed officer briefly puts his hands on the guy's neck - although without any apparent pressure, and not enough to get him to stop yelling.
The videoer, meanwhile, provides his own commentary. When the cops try to put the traffic blocking guy in a cruiser and he repeats what he wants to do to the police, a crowd of teens starts screaming and pushing and then the videoer starts screaming "Somebody's gonna get shot!" repeatedly even though none of the cops had their guns drawn.
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What?!
By anon
Tue, 08/25/2015 - 3:32pm
What?!
Your last paragraph can be summed up as follows: "Great job BPD! Cause you all usually suck! And a departing FU to those of you who served this country".
No...
By fairlee76
Tue, 08/25/2015 - 5:25pm
Last paragraph could be summed up as "according to the literature, there is a growing trend of ex-service men and women joining police forces. Sometimes these men and women treat the general public as they were trained to treat enemy combatants in a combat zone." This is not a criticism of the men and women of the armed forces. It is a criticism of the training they receive when they transition to state side police work.
P.S. - Nowhere did I lump BPD in with other police departments. From what I have seen, BPD does a great job deploying proper force and should be a model for other police departments.
Who's harassing whom?
By Ron Newman
Tue, 08/25/2015 - 10:02am
While the video may be out of context, from what I see here, the crowd and the filmer are harassing the police, not the other way around.
The kid yelling racist and
By anon
Tue, 08/25/2015 - 11:06am
The kid yelling racist and bigoted obscenities is acting out of control and is in a rage -- seems to me like he's on drugs. If I stood in the middle of street yelling the N word, I'd probably be arrested for disturbing the peace as well. This kid needs rehab.
Reaction and question for Adam
By issacg
Tue, 08/25/2015 - 3:32pm
I watched the video without audio. I was surprised, given the body language and gestures of several of the non-police actors, at how calm the cops appeared. I'm pretty sure that I would not have been able to appear so calm if I were one of the cops in that situation (although, maybe with training...). It looked to me like some de-escalation training was put to very good use there.
This is where I usually post my "another bigger incident avoided by demanding that out police have better training, better pay, etc." line. I won't repeat it - our regular users know it well by now.
Lastly, Adam, as I have never been a journalist before, I was wondering whether you debated about reproducing the language of guy who was taunting the cops. Obviously, that's not something that we'd see in the Globe, but I'm not really into pearl clutching, either. I was just curious - particularly in view of the kidlet, etc.
I have to say that too
By anon
Tue, 08/25/2015 - 4:40pm
While I've seen plenty of cops acting terribly (clubbing single, individual people on Bay State Road after the 2008 World Series who were trying to get home, for example, or the ones near my parents hometown who like to refuse police reports because it's too much paperwork) I have to say, most cops I've seen in most cities have behaved very calmly and professionally given that the people they're interacting with are belligerent, on drugs, and/or mentally ill.
The kidlet is old enough to have heard/read those words before
By adamg
Tue, 08/25/2015 - 6:44pm
Ten years ago, maybe, but now? I'm sure she's read worse in some of the novels she's been assigned in class (well, except for those interminable 19th-century British novels she had to read one after the other over the past couple of years), not to mention what she's heard on the T on her way to and from school every day.
As for the cops, definitely: Aside, possibly, from that one moment with the hands on throat (and it's not like that was just some sudden, unprovoked thing), it was interesting just how calm the cops were. A pretty dramatic difference from incidents we keep hearing about elsewhere - as well as that Transit Police incident at Dudley Square.
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