By adamg on Sat., 8/4/2018 - 4:32 pm
UPDATE: Man was arrested.
Woman on a motorcycle records an angry man last night. Cop shows up as guy is still screaming at her demanding to know where she lives, wants backup from the cop, who tells him "I don't care where she lives, it's none of my business where she lives" as he moves the guy away.
Video has lots of screaming, expletives if you're at work or have a kid nearby.
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OK, I will stand corrected.
By dmcboston
Mon, 08/06/2018 - 11:06am
OK, I will stand corrected.
Perhaps the issues in South America could have been handled better.
President Trump may go down in history as the best foreign policy president since James Monroe.
And He May Ultimately Go Down In History
By Oscar Worthy
Mon, 08/06/2018 - 2:21pm
as the best soccer player since Pele. (But I'm kinda guessing that he won't . . )
"best foreign policy
By formerlyTheSoBo...
Mon, 08/06/2018 - 9:35am
"best foreign policy president since Richard Nixon"
For who? Russia?
Stay classy and....patriotic.
lol, NIXON?
By Marco
Mon, 08/06/2018 - 9:40am
dude, if that's your comparison that's pretty bad. Nixon's foreign policy milestone was opening trade to China....so, he got us into the mess with China we're in today, with all the shipping of jobs overseas for cheaper labor, boarded up mill towns and lead painted toys for our kids that came with it so....good job? I guess the corporations people like you so worship got rich though. All we had to do was send business to a Communist country exploiting its workers. COOL. Then as we all know the wealth "trickled down" to us plebes in the 80s under Reagan, and will do so again under Trump. Maybe he will "open up" North Korea for exploitation just like Nixon did with China. Mmmmmm.....CAPITALISM. Yum yum.
Leaving aside the clusterbang of Vietnam, the guy was a trainwreck with foreign policy.
Gee
By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 08/05/2018 - 7:55pm
Most people flush that when they are done with it, not archive it or type it out.
Yes. I typed it.
By dmcboston
Mon, 08/06/2018 - 3:13am
An erudite and cogent analysis of my post.
Advice: Take Monday off. Go to the beach. If it's ocean, find a blue wave.
No way!
By Will LaTulippe
Sat, 08/04/2018 - 7:18pm
Earl Weaver came back from the dead?
Seems just like any foul
By anon
Sat, 08/04/2018 - 7:39pm
Seems just like any foul mouthed rude New Englander to me. Nice accent loser..
the white yelling guy
By Luke Warm
Sat, 08/04/2018 - 9:29pm
should have been arrested. he was threatening the woman. if not for that, I could see just ordering him home. because he was threatening he should not have been let go.
He was arrested.
By anon
Sat, 08/04/2018 - 11:42pm
He was arrested.
He’s also a racist asshole.
- a Boston Cop
Is the title accurate including all context?
By dotbowdoin
Sat, 08/04/2018 - 11:38pm
... Adam? Or are you contributing to the racist rhetoric that is ever so popular these days. Do you care to enlighten us about the full story and consider re-titling this headline? I’m all for keeping it original if the only thing that triggered this isolated incident was a black person parking their motorcycle (was t an actual motorcycle or one of those unregistered motorized gasoline (illegal)) scooters?
Nice profiling there
By anonymous person
Sun, 08/05/2018 - 5:33pm
A quick glance through her facebook profile would tell you that she rides a standard motorcycle that appears to be registered correctly. She's also a married working parent and an honor roll student at Wentworth. Not that those respectability politics should matter; nothing she could do would make her deserve to have a white man in her face telling her she doesn't belong in "his" neighborhood.
I'm not sure on what planet you think Adam is contributing to racism by showing a video of a racist and labeling it as such. If anything, he's pointing out that racism occurs and agreeing that we all need to continue to fight it.
Aren't you special
By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 08/05/2018 - 7:51pm
Did you bail out your dad, yet?
Did you notice the part where the cop looks at her and the motorcycle and says "its legal"?
Try to identify race of driver at night
By O-FISH-L
Sun, 08/05/2018 - 2:41am
I challenge the critics to attempt to identify the race of any driver at night, especially with today's factory tint in both the police cruiser windows and the civilian motorist's windows. Modern air conditioning and heat in cars mean that most drive with the windows closed. Even more difficult when motorists have added "after market tint." The fallacy that police are looking to pull over black people is outrageous and untrue.
I have better than 20/20 vision and could never tell, even when my cruiser was parked near a street light. I had no idea who I was stopping until I got up to the window and know of no officers that would treat a black motorist differently than white. Criminal history is different, if the driver (white, black, Hispanic, Asian whatever) has a history, officers are trained to dig a little deeper. A racist officer wouldn't last long, especially on the BPD.
I would encourage the readers to park on a side street that intersects with a main street with 30 or even 25 mph speed limit, at night, and note the race of the driver, never mind 65 mph on the highway. Better chance of hitting the lottery, so it's not race.
What cruiser was that?
By lbb
Mon, 08/06/2018 - 8:20am
What cruiser was that?
While many of us (Dorchester
By dvg
Sun, 08/05/2018 - 10:40am
While many of us (Dorchester residents) love to tell people how diverse our neighborhood is, it is also remarkably segregated for being such a small geographical area. Census data show the overall neighborhood as being about 28% white. Yet, according to the website City Data some parts are whiter than Vermont or NH. The street blocks surrounding the area where this incident took place are anywhere from 97% to 100% white. Other parts (West of Bowdoin St or Washington St for instance) are the complete opposite with hardly any white people in them.
These divisions can be reflected in attitudes toward others and voting patterns; in Cedar Grove, near where this incident took place it was 46% Trump, 48% Hillary in 2016. Other precincts less than a mile away gave Trump less than 2% of the vote.
Fascinating map of 2016 voting results:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/upshot/el...
Yup
By John Costello
Sun, 08/05/2018 - 4:13pm
People can have different opinions on who they want to vote for in an election. Shocker.
You are cherry picking here to get your result. HRC won the precinct where this happened by 10%.
As far as a person on a motorcycle goes parked out at the corner of Adams and Chelmsford, Boston has a motorcycle problem, as do a lot of places. It is always "Check Twice, Save A Life", until you watch them go by you at 90 on the highway and 50 in your neighborhood. They are young, old, very old, and typically are thinking they are either reenacting Easy Rider or Biker Boys, when they are just really pains in the asses disturbing the peace.
For all of you who called for the elimination of cars and all other forms of auto transport after that child was killed in South Boston last week, just remember, we have someone who may (not proven, but most likely) drives like a threat to pedestrian and vehicle through the streets of Boston.
Two can play your profiling game
By anonymous person
Sun, 08/05/2018 - 5:40pm
Yes, there's a problem with dirtbikes. I've called 911 on many of them being ridden the wrong way, through parks, on and off sidewalks, narrowly missing pedestrians, weaving through traffic, and all that.
Look at this woman's facebook profile. She's a married working parent and a student at Wentworth. She rides a motorcycle both as transportation and as a hobby, and goes to women's motorcycle conventions. Those hobbyist motorcycle folks are usually very proudly into safe and proper operation. If we're going to profile, I'd say everything I can see suggests she's about the last person who would engage in unsafe riding or riding to intimidate or any of that. It's certainly a better gamble than assuming based on her being a women of color and being in Dorchester that she is disturbing the peace or darting out in front of cars and deserved to have a big angry white guy threatening her and saying she doesn't belong there.
Having now watched the video
By Waquiot
Sun, 08/05/2018 - 11:00pm
Costello has some points.
First, I waited all day to make sure my son was not subjected to all sorts of racial slurs, and watching this after he was in bed, all I got was a guy who has anger management issues, which is important, but nothing racial or sexist.
We do not see on the video what happened when he approached her. Heck, to start with we don't know what time of night it was, and these are linked. Was she idling her cycle loudly at 1 AM, or did she drive up and quickly park at 9? If it was the latter, yeah, it's most likely a race thing. If it was the former, race probably had nothing to do with it. Did he start off like a raving lunatic, or did he nicely ask her to turn the bike off only to be met with the language we heard her use with the camera rolling?
Was he out of line? It looks like the cop would say so, as would I (from what I saw, anyway.) If he indeed were arrested, it was for disorderly conduct, or in layman's language, not shutting the fuck up when the cop told his to calm down and shut the fuck up. I have this problem with my son, except he's six and doesn't have the emotional intelligence that an adult should have. I can't defend the guy too much, but without knowing what came before, I'm not ready to say this was a racial incident. Non-white people might find this hard to believe, but white people do treat other white people like this. Heck, most murders of white people in America are committed by other white people. There's anger out there, and it's not always about race.
Upon further review
By Waquiot
Tue, 08/07/2018 - 12:08pm
Reading the Dorchester Reporter and the quotes from the officer on the scene contained within, this asshole is racist. Sometimes it is about race.
Guess what?
By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 08/05/2018 - 7:56pm
The cop looked at her motorcycle and basically said "no problem".
Boston has a Masshole problem.
Medford Has A Hysteria Problem
By John Costello
Sun, 08/05/2018 - 8:04pm
Her Facebook identity is right there on the video.
Message her and have her ride around your neighborhood. Get back to us. Thanks.
Sexist much?
By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 08/05/2018 - 9:11pm
Actually, I don't have to even ask that when there is a history of posts available.
As for "ride around my neighborhood", well, too bad I can't record audio. There is a platoon of harleys making their evening rounds of the roadways surrounding the Fells as I type - just like they seem to do most weekend nights.
And if they parked in front of your house running their engines
By Waquiot
Sun, 08/05/2018 - 11:01pm
You'd be okay with that?
From what I've seen so far, she's invited
By anon
Mon, 08/06/2018 - 1:07am
I'd rather have her idling her bike in front of my house all day and night as opposed to hearing one second of this kook's obnoxious ranting.
I'll be very surprised if this guy isn't a known neighborhood crackpot.
We shall see.
BTW, I don't live far from there.
The hit and run from Ashmont ended in a crash a block away and there have been some shootings too close for comfort. So I can see people on edge a bit. But this guy is way beyond the pale and seems pretty damn racist to me.
Ask yourself if he'd be ranting about "you people" and "his neighborhood" (and not hers by extension!) if she were white.
Since he's one of ours...
By Kaz
Sun, 08/05/2018 - 9:59am
...do we get to give him his viral social media nickname?
Patriot Patrick?
Homeowner Harrington?
Neighborhood Norbert?
By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 08/05/2018 - 7:49pm
Address Andrew?
Mortgage Payer Mark?
Vigilante Victor
By anon
Mon, 08/06/2018 - 10:39am
Neighborhood Watch Walter?
White Flight Wilbur?
duplicate
By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 08/05/2018 - 4:27pm
.
Classic pile on
By Rostonian
Sun, 08/05/2018 - 9:43pm
This is classic. Some lunatic goes on a rant in Dorchester and people here end up making it about the police - take away, BPD is racist and god forbid someone try to chime in and support the BPD, then you are "whitesplaining".
But when Adam posts regulary about shootings, murders, or other crime in Boston neighborhoods, you rarely see a SIGLE comment. Everyone is quick to call people racist, but not to look at the issues and offer solutions to problems.
Lazy.
I am glad to see both news
By Rob
Mon, 08/06/2018 - 5:09am
I am glad to see both news reports and anecdotal experience that demonstrates restraint and good situation management and Conflict de escalation by Boston police. Who gives me hope they're my own experience was either an aberration or the end of a bad trend.
In my 20 + years of living here and many more of visiting as a driver, I've been stopped by police about 3 times.
One was mass state police. So, frustrating and uncommunicative, barely anything said just handed me the ticket. But, the Trooper was professional, calm, non-aggressive and kept the whole encounter under control.
The other two were Boston police. White guy, white caps, stabbed in my own neighbourhood. Horrible situations. Officers aggressive and confrontational and belligerent from the moment they jumped out of the car. Very much tending to escalate the situation and create conflict and create resentment. After the second time that happened I came home and told my wife then these guys in general personality would probably be like a lot of Boston campus I know - they didn't have any racial issues that I have noticed. What they did have was such a bad approach to the situation from the start that I would never blame anybody from another ethnic group for thinking that an officer had some sort of a racial issue with them if they were interacting with them like that. It was the type of stuff where I could only just sit through the stuff, give short replies and not escalate. Idiots with badges and guns - so tightly-wound that a traffic stop had them jumpy. Wondered a bit if the city would someday have a shooting tragedy - something avoidable but happens because of bad situational management (doubling down on tragedy if something like a race riot would result from it)
This is what ended in that
By PatriotsDay
Mon, 08/06/2018 - 10:28am
This is what ended in that guys front yard. Unfortunately he lost his shit on the wrong person....the lady who shot this vid had nothing to do with it. https://boston.cbslocal.com/video/3911773-police-a...
Boston police harassment targets Black and Latino communities
By anon
Thu, 08/09/2018 - 2:55pm
Believe it or not, police harassment in Boston is a problem, particularly if you're Black and/or Latino, and even more so if you are also youth.
From an ACLU report:
Here are two stories from young people at a legislative briefing a few years ago, and a more recent recap about a police brutality demonstration from this April (scroll about 3/4 of the way down for a list of demands).
Yeah, um
By Waquiot
Thu, 08/09/2018 - 5:42pm
In this case, not so much.
I mean, you read the story, right? You didn't just up and decide to post without reading the story, did you?
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