The mayor gets a wake-up call

The Mayor recently declined an invitation to hear another group that wanted to talk about defunding the police on Saturday. (defund: to withdraw funding from)

This group showed up Sunday, delivered their demands sang a hymm, and left inside of thirty minutes.They have three demands. I hope they're included in coverage of the incident.

Listen:

Mayor Walsh didn’t show up when youth leaders invited him to a town hall (with 200 attendees) to discus the budget. So today at 6 am @FTPboston showed up knocking at his door.

Marty, it’s time to DEFUND Boston police, REMOVE cops from schools, and CAP overtime. #Bospoli pic.twitter.com/FfoCPw57d8

— Liza (@lizaveta9) June 21, 2020

Where demanding an end to brutality hurt your Marshfeelings.

I'm sure a large regular can be delivered to you on Sunday around 6AM by a bunch of loud NU & Wellesley alumnae who think they are now running the city. You won't mind, right? Your neighbors won't mind, right?

whether or not i would mind is kinda beside the point, isn’t it?

Hey dude go ask George Floyd how he feels about 6am protests.

God forbid you would be hypothetically inconvenienced.

I would be pleasantly surprised that I was being protested at all.

How'd you like it if a big crowd of people protested loudly outside your house at six o'clock in the morning, especially on a Sunday?

Well, it would depend. If I was an elected official who had refused to meet with a group of constituents over an extremely-timely issue, I would think to myself "Oh, right, democracy is more than an abstraction--it affects actual people, and is sometimes messy." If I was that elected official's neighbor, I'd think "Boy, that guy should really stop doing dumb things that prompt people to show up at his house at 6AM." If I was just some random person, I'd be confused and irritated, but probably no more so than I already am at the nonstop barrage of fireworks that the city also isn't doing anything about.

doing this shit outside somebody's house, especially at six a. m. on the weekend is a fool's errand

No it's not. I guarantee Marty's going to pay attention to these folks the next time they ask to talk to him. If he doesn't, next time they'll bring foghorns.

and it's inconsiderate.

God forfend we break any rules of social decorum over the extrajudicial murder of black people by the police.

A friend of mine once summed it up better than I can:

Many of us, myself included, are socialized to be more outraged at breaches of etiquette than breaches of justice. Etiquette is largely about maintaining an unjust social order, where it's worse for you to tell your racist relatives to shut the fuck up at Thanksgiving than it is for them to spew their nonsense where your little cousins can hear. I've had it up to the eyes with respectability politics - we have never gained anything by smiling and being polite and waiting for others to recognize our humanity, and we won't gain any ground by trying to reason with people who want us dead, or enslaved, or sent to conversion therapy, or marked permanently as second-class citizens in some other way.

Dude, let's not talk about old white guys, you are at least or on the cusp of 40 and only have nothing but insults to throw rather than logical statements. You are so white that fresh snow looks dark next to you.

You contribute nothing but your own perceived snark time and time again. Nice job keyboard warrior.

If he had a better argument he wouldn't need to discredit the messengers-- ad hominem.

Here are their demands;

1. DEFUND Boston police
2. REMOVE cops from schools, and
3. CAP overtime.

Here are some facts Boston Globe published

• BPD pay up $125,000,000 or 43% in 9 years
• OT has grown $35,500,000, an 84% increase since 2011
• Last year 26 officers collected >$300,000 through a combination of salary, OT, and detail pay

News about the contract
When Walsh negotiated the current contract Boston Municipal Research Bureau called out the terms as a reason for concern about excessive cost increases.

BostonHerald: "Cops get sweet new deal"

Budget info:
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But Jared Kushner owes him a substantial amount of money.

The woman who is authored the twitter link works for a national advocacy organization that states they are they to push social change through action and they are a 503c, so yes, she is in fact a paid political protester.

It is amazing what this Google thing does, isn't it.

Yes, slavery is a bigger sin. If we can’t agree on that then I have no hope for the rest 2020.

If you listed each campus police department separately, and included the immediately neighboring and "might as well be Boston" towns, you could easily approach 100.