State Police report arresting a man they say attacked a group of beachgoers this afternoon with both a hammer and racial slurs.
Gianpaolo Cerretani, 24, faces charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault with a dangerous weapon, civil rights violation, threats to commit a crime disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, State Police say.
State Police say Cerretani's ire was raised when he stole a little child's football and a group of Hispanic and black teenagers and men grabbed it back and returned it to the kid. He got a hammer from somewhere and began swinging it at the teens and man while shouting racial epithets, State Police say.
One of the group, an 18-year-old Hispanic man from Lowell, was struck by the hammer, suffering minor injuries, they continue:
As numerous troopers rushed to the scene, the group of youths and young men got the hammer away from Cerretani and subdued him.
When troopers reached the fracas, they placed Cerretani, who was bleeding from cuts on his head, into handcuffs while they interviewed victims and witnesses. After troopers had Cerretani cuffed, he shouted another racial slur and an obscenity at one of the group, and also shouted at troopers, calling one of them a "pig." He shouted to a trooper, "I'll take you too."
State Police say they took the man to Whidden Memorial Hospital in Everett for observation. They add he hurled a racial epithet at a black security guard there.
Innocent, etc.
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Huh
By Michael
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 12:09am
I wonder if this guy supports any particular political candidate
He probably does
By cybah
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 7:17am
Welcome to Trump America, "Make America Hate Again"
This is what happens when you promote hate and racism... Its like a fire. The more wood you add, the bigger the flame is, and the more likely someone is going to get burned.
Whoa!
By Boston_res
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 9:13am
I thought he meant Bernie Sanders. I started thinking, "Wow...his hardcore supporters are really pissed.".
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/07/06/...
I kid, I kid!
Yawn
By anon
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 9:27am
Bernie is an honorary redneck american. Unlike you, he understands that guns are tools.
Shh....
By Boston_res
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 10:12am
Listen...anyone else hear that?...
"WHOOSH!!!!"
And it goes right over anon's head. I can attest, the only tool in this thread is you...and it's a dull tool at that.
tools
By Steeve
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 4:07pm
"A gun is not a weapon, Marge, it's a tool. Like a butcher's knife or a harpoon, or... or an alligator."
Yeah
By bosguy22
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 10:20am
Because this never happened before Trump announced his candidacy.
Just in case you missed this
By cybah
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 10:31am
I didn't say that..
but just in case you missed this little tidbit. The BBC went to Revere, MA and interviewed Trump Supporters.
http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-36318958
Talk about sour grapes!
By BostonDog
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 11:06am
They just can't over the fact we KICKED THEIR ASS back in 1775.
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.
Oh, come on Kris
By Waquiot
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 3:50pm
Just like a certain Presidential candidate, you danced around it and essentially blamed Trump's campaign for this without actually saying as much.
You must know the Revere area enough to know that little racist twerps like this have been around Revere Beach for decades stirring up trouble for minorities and other people they just don't like. If anything, they made Trump, not the other way around.
You mean like a headline
By Bob
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 1:05pm
You mean like a headline "berserk white guy..."
I don't remember ever seeing a headline "black guy shoots white people in Chicago" or "Muslim terrorist shoots up gay night club"
Racism will only end when people choose to end it, in every form from every group of people.
I'm sure...
By lbb
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 2:21pm
...they'll quit when you quit.
You first. Really.
He built a wall of sand but it kept collapsing and
By bulgingbuick
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 7:31am
there were Black and Brown people on the beach so he lost it.
Of course it collapsed.
By erik g
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 9:14am
He did refuse to pay for it to be built, after all.
Revere is filled with people
By Anthony
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 9:43am
Revere is filled with people like him, they are enraged, mad at what is happening at their beach in recent years with the violence, these people in revere invested have payed taxes and bought luxury style houses with marble floors , chandeliers, statue of the Virgin Mary in their back yards a swimming pool, they even have Lexus cars in their driveways , 30 years ago it was a Cadillac or lincoln but nowadays revere went slightly upscale and every body bought a Lexus car so they can keep up with the jones's in Lynnfield.
Does not look like the
By DPM
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 10:00am
Does not look like the typical Trump supporter, but who knows.
https://www.facebook.com/jp.cerretani
Where is GIANPAOLO M. CERRETANI ID'd as a "white guy"
By O-FISH-L
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 12:20am
While I realize GIANPAOLO M. CERRETANI is an all-American name, where do the State Police identify him as a "white guy" or is that just another rush to judgment? Looking forward to "black guys rob white woman on Boylston" in future UHub headlines. Then again, consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
You didn't disappoint
By adamg
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 12:25am
Glad to see you're up this late.
I IDed him specifically as a white guy attacking blacks and Hispanics because of the civil-rights charges - he's charged with going after people specifically because of their race and ethnicity (with a hammer). If a black guy ever starts chasing white people on Newbury Street with a hammer while screaming racial epithets at them, yes, I'll mention that, too. For some reason, that just doesn't seem to happen much; the only similar incident of late that I can think of is the pipe and urine attack on the sleeping "illegal immigrant" at JFK/UMass by the Trump-spouting Leader brothers, who, oddly enough, were also white.
How do I know he's white? His MySpace page is still up. Some Googling will also show he's a member of a relatively well known family who are white.
i don't have a dog on the fight, but...
By anon
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 1:47am
If your argument is that only white people commit racially motivated crimes, and that's why you never write articles about other races doing the same, you should probably just stop.
No, that's not my argument
By adamg
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 7:55am
My argument was that if the reverse happened, I would note it (then parenthetically, I noted the other case).
Adam remember your favorite game
By anon
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 8:47am
"Guess that race." Yes youre bias and consumed with white guilt.
Nah
By adamg
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 9:35am
But thanks for playing. Johnny, tell him what he's won.
What is "White Guilt"
By BostonDog
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 10:23am
Mind explaining?
You are so full of yourself
By Republican
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 10:20am
You are so full of yourself Adam. Hypocrate
Hypo Crate
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Mon, 06/20/2016 - 10:23am
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I wish you were filled with
By Dot net
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 12:26pm
I wish you were filled with dictionaries.
???
By jde671
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 8:35am
now just how in the fresh hell did you get that from what he wrote???
Are you really googling
By anon
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 7:48am
Are you really googling people and looking at their MySpace to ensure yourself he was white and this was a hate crime? Hahahaha! You are so pathetic!
No, not just Myspace
By adamg
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 7:53am
But I figured that would be something somebody like you might understand.
I'd like to pause for a moment
By erik g
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 9:31am
Amidst all the angry shouting in the rest of the comments, I'd like to just take a moment to point out that this is the sickest burn any of us is going to see all week. The Lebron-swatting-away-Iguodala's-fast-break of our news-reading day. One of the great mic-drops in Boston reporting.
New Policy, Please
By Irma la Douce
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 11:20am
Henceforth, all UHub crime reports should identify suspects that actively maintain a MySpace page.
Here
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Mon, 06/20/2016 - 9:01am
I think you're going to need this:
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" If a black guy ever starts
By DPM
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 9:12am
" If a black guy ever starts chasing white people on Newbury Street with a hammer while screaming racial epithets at them, yes, I'll mention that, too. "
Yet these are the headlines when that does happen.
"Pack roamed downtown, robbing and beating people"
"Mattapan man charged with beating up Blue Line worker "
"Teens attack two on the Common; two arrested"
"Pack, Mattapan man, Teens" are those just euphemisms?
Rx for DPM
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Mon, 06/20/2016 - 9:19am
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I'm assuming...
By John-W
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 12:38pm
...that's a suppository and that's at a third of actual size.
Depends
By ElizaLeila
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 2:42pm
Upon your screen size ...
Yes, there is a difference
By adamg
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 9:28am
Those people were charged with being criminals, but not with civil-rights violations, because there's no evidence they were going after people based on their race or ethnicity, as opposed to the guy in this case.
Yes, because racially
By DPM
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 9:37am
Yes, because racially motivated attacks going in the reverse result in hate crime charges oh so often.
Uh, they do
By Kaz
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 9:47am
66% of single-bias crimes investigated by the Feds in 2012 were white-on-black.
22% of single-bias crimes were black-on-white.
Single-bias means there was a a single overwhelming cause for the crime to be committed and it was the race of the victim.
So, unless you can prove that whites don't attack blacks because of their race at a 3-to-1 ratio as blacks attack whites because of race in this country, you're wrong.
What, you think the feds get
By DPM
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 9:52am
What, you think the feds get involved in people being sucker punched by 'teens' in the common?
Additionally your own numbers indicate that the black population is significantly over represented in the fed investigation numbers.
Why is 'teens' in 'quotes'?
By lbb
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 10:04am
Why do you put 'teens' in 'quotes'? Is it some 'hip' new thing that all the 'kids' are 'doing'? How many people are 'sucker punched' by these 'teens', anyway?
Why is teens in quotes?
By DPM
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 10:28am
Why is teens in quotes? Because teens is the term used when crowds of young black men assault people on the common. Quite in contrast with the "Beserk White Guy" sort of headline.
Are you dumb?
By Kaz
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 9:40am
He said it had to do with the racial slurs being slung.
In none of those 3 UHub stories are the victims' races ever identified. In none of those 3 UHub stories are the assailants said to be assaulting their victims due to race. So, in none of those 3 stories is your comment relevant.
PS - My subject is rhetorical. We already know the answer.
"are the victims' races ever
By DPM
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 9:43am
"are the victims' races ever identified. "
Nope, convenient huh?
Not a dis necessarily on Adam he is merely passing along other news reports and police statements.
Ah...conspiracies
By Kaz
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 9:56am
So...now we're into the conspiracy theory world.
So, your supposition is that the teens attacked that couple solely because the couple was white and not because they had their iPhones out or the teens were stuck in a stupid group mentality that led to them all agreeing that attacking people was a good idea. Then, after investigation, the police decided NOT to tell the public or charge the teens for attacking the white couple and shouting racial epithets and Adam aloofly just republished what the police told him (even though he's made mention here that he does his own research based off police reports from time to time)...and all this led to him posting "teens" instead of "black teens"...which you don't actually have ANY evidence of because all the reports are anonymized since they are treated as minors so neither of their names nor their races has ever been released. You only have the fact that they're from Dorchester to go on.
Except the Globe story points out that the couple that was attacked were teaching each other Korean and one was from Japanese heritage. So, the couple isn't even likely white. In this case, the victim's races are somewhat known by the news...and in that fact, your conspiracy theory falls apart.
But I knew that before I posted because I knew you'd bite on what I said. Yes, very convenient.
Asian people cannot be
By DPM
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 10:01am
Asian people cannot be victims of hate crimes?
Not the ones
By lbb
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 10:06am
Not the ones you're blowing your dog whistle about.
Penalty: 15 yards, moving the goalposts
By Kaz
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 10:12am
I'm sorry, are you suggesting that you were up in arms about Adam's attempt to silence black-on-asian crime waves?
You must have mistyped "white" when you meant "asian".
There's a reason race isn't mentioned for most victims
By adamg
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 10:08am
Actually, two reasons.
1) Authorities often release very little to no information about victims in general because they've already been, well, victimized enough. For some reason, they often do release the ages of victims of violent crimes and, in the case of State Police, where they're from.
2) It's generally not relevant (for that matter, you'll notice I don't tend to note the race of suspects, unless they're at large). In this particular case, given that we're talking about a civil-rights charge, yes, it's relevant.
Ummm
By Anon
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 10:05am
I wouldn't be surprised those racial slurs were thrown after a friendly reminder that stealing is bad via a few well-aimed kicks to the head. There's definitely more to the story.
Sounds totally reasonable,
By avjudge
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 4:41pm
Sounds totally reasonable, and then "he hurled a racial epithet at a black security guard" at Whidden Memorial Hospital because - wait, why?
Cerretani's!!
By John-W
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 9:51am
Before there was Market Basket in Chelsea there was Cerretani's on the Revere Beach Parkway! The crush of humanity. The polyglot cacophony. The sawdust on the floor which made you think of grade-school janitors cleaning up child vomit. How many hours did I spend in there while Nanna complained with the deli guy that he was cutting the corned beef too thick.
Anyways, who said Italians are white?
I remember Cerretani's!
By anon
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 11:45am
I know it's a little off topic, but my parents shopped at Cerretani's all the time. They stayed open straight through the Blizzard of 78, until there was just no merchandise left to sell. Can you imagine that happening now? Stores would be closed days before the storm even arrived. If it even arrived.
That "history" in that movie
By anon
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 11:45am
That "history" in that movie scene is not entirely accurate.
That movie is mostly just a
By anon
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 11:52am
That movie is mostly just a non serious action film.
no need to duck...
By John-W
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 12:48pm
No foolin? I always take my history lessons and beer recommendations from Dennis Hopper.
But actually the Great White Race did not include a number of "white" people. At one time Germans (of non-Saxon stock), Irish, Italians, Jews, Eastern Europeans, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek (hell, Mediterraneans in general), etc. were all in the "non-white" category. Which is to say race, as a concept for categorizing people, is bullshit.
"Bullshit"?
By lbb
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 2:24pm
Of course so-called "racial science" was always bullshit. But you know what's just as intellectually dishonest, just as much bullshit as "racial science"? Pretending that "racial science", and the racism it engendered, have no power and don't continue to oppress people today. IOW, just because something's bullshit doesn't mean it's not powerful and that it doesn't harm some people.
sigh
By John-W
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 5:12pm
Yes Mildred. I know. The point was racism as some sort of biological thing is bullshit and yes, as a cultural thing used to oppress different groups of people it's a problem -- and that is not generally accepted by the Fishy's and DPM's of the world. But go ahead and sing away to the choir.
Accidentally upvoted this
By Train lover
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 9:22am
Accidentally upvoted this incredibly dumb comment trying to hit reply. Where's the judgement? You think this headline is unfairly coloring readers perception of the alleged attacker?
It's a good thing
By perruptor
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 7:06am
It's a good thing he wasn't using some really deadly weapon, like a crock pot.
Don't ever change Revere
By Section 77
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 7:10am
Thirst story could have happened any time over the last 100 years in Revere. (The hot-head just would have found a different group to attack). I would also point out that if he (obviously) can't stand to be around people of color then he shouldn't be near the T station. With a hammer.
Couldn't you have posted this
By anon
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 7:37am
Couldn't you have posted this without being so detailed about race?
So leave it to the reader ...
By adamg
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 7:56am
To make the connection?
I just went through your past
By wtf021
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 8:26am
I just went through your past few shooting articles in Dorchester and Roxbury and none of them have race mentioned. Nor do they have many (either 1 or zero) comments. I guess Adam has figured out, like the Globe, that racially charged articles get much more attention. If it is white on white or black on black, no one seems to pay attention or comment.
Because...
By lbb
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 8:49am
Because race had nothing to do with the attack, amirite?
The reverse happens in quite
By DPM
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 9:08am
The reverse happens in quite significantly higher numbers, I will not be holding my breath to see hate crime charges when it happens next tho.
Nor will I be holding my breath to see such attacks racialized in this manner on the site.
I would anticipate the headline to go something like "State Police: Crowds of young black men assault and sucker punch scores of people walking the common"
Of course that would be racist.
Citations please
By anon
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 9:05am
Prove it.
Scores of people huh. Nice
By Train lover
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 9:18am
Scores of people huh. Nice straw man bruh
Why are you so pissed about this headline? Some idiot attacked people on a beach yelling racial slurs at them. You mad because you feel implicated, as a member of the"default race"? Are you trying to argue that the attacker may not consider himself "white" and we ought to ask his opinion? Or maybe his actions are not representative of all people who may be identified as "white"? What an idea
Stop crying
Happy Monday, everybody!
By erik g
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 9:21am
[citation needed]
Boy, you sure do seem unhappy here, reading this new coverage that doesn't charge you a subscription fee. And yet here you are, in comment thread after comment thread, telling us at great length of your unhappiness over Adam's refusal to turn this place into Stormfront.
It's almost as though the terms "racist" and "hate crime" have specific meanings, which don't actually map onto minority-on-white crime because of literally centuries of historical context, some of which you would probably be acquainted with if you could stop inhaling deeply of the delicate bouquet of your own bullshit and dig your head out of your own ass long enough to read a goddamned book.
In 2008, the most recent year
By DPM
Mon, 06/20/2016 - 9:34am
In 2008, the most recent year for which such data seem to have been collected, FBI surveys show that, out of 520,161 interracial violent crimes, blacks committed 429,444 of them against whites, while whites committed 90,717 of them against blacks.
Tell me more about reading a book.
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