By adamg on Sun., 7/5/2020 - 5:46 pm 
Photo via Black Market Nubian.
Black Market Nubian's Kai Grant reports on the painting of the 500-foot-long mural on Washington Street between Palmer and Eustis streets.
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Is the street safe...
By anon
Sun, 07/05/2020 - 6:18pm
For vehicular traffic? The yellow paint is undoubtedly distracting.
I'm concerned because the Silver Line passes through there; 60-foot buses are not good for experimenting with roadway safety.
Maybe it will slow drivers
By Matt Man
Mon, 07/06/2020 - 5:20pm
Maybe it will slow drivers down. Good.
Not a mural
By mg
Sun, 07/05/2020 - 6:55pm
I'm happy to see it, but it's not a mural. Murals are painted on walls (or ceilings). The word comes from the Latin for wall.
Semantics
By Actual customer
Sun, 07/05/2020 - 7:27pm
Semantics
Yes, semantics
By SamWack
Mon, 07/06/2020 - 8:19am
The branch of linguistics concerned with meaning. Meaning! How trivial! Why waste time on considering what words actually mean?
Have they set the precedent
By StillFromDorchester
Sun, 07/05/2020 - 7:00pm
For every other group seeking approval for their slogan to be painted on public streets?
Was this approved by the City or did someone just do it?
Apparently.
By anon
Sun, 07/05/2020 - 7:11pm
From the Globe:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/05/metro/500-f...
Google is your friend
By Caroline
Sun, 07/05/2020 - 7:11pm
Nubian Square Public Art Initiative
Look it up.
So, so, so fragile....
By NormalGuy
Sun, 07/05/2020 - 7:25pm
...soft and fragile.
Chances are it was approved
By Actual customer
Sun, 07/05/2020 - 7:28pm
Chances are it was approved as most people with half a heart are behind the cause
The city shut down the street
By Rhonda
Mon, 07/06/2020 - 8:45pm
The city shut down the street between Ruggles and Warren for Saturday and Sunday. Yes it was approved.
this is just
By berkleealum
Sun, 07/05/2020 - 7:44pm
"all lives matter" said differently but im sure you know that
If someone wants to paint All Lives Matter now
By StillFromDorchester
Sun, 07/05/2020 - 7:56pm
Can the City stop them?
Sometimes an observation is just an observation, but you knew that.
Yes.
By anon
Sun, 07/05/2020 - 8:05pm
This was decided during that flag issue.
yeah
By berkleealum
Sun, 07/05/2020 - 8:14pm
come to think of it, if someone wants to paint "suck my dick" can they stop them?
Yes
By StillFromDorchester
Sun, 07/05/2020 - 8:17pm
I'm certain they could.
They could remove it
By BostonDog
Sun, 07/05/2020 - 9:33pm
It's debatable if they have the resources to stop someone from putting paint somewhere (graffiti) but if it's public property they could assign a DPW crew to remove it.
Conversely, they have no obligation to remove anything.
That depends, is religion
By Refugee
Mon, 07/06/2020 - 8:30am
That depends, is religion involved?
I hear it is good for removing potholes
By downtown-anon
Mon, 07/06/2020 - 8:55am
Harder to remove paint it it is all over crumbling pavement.
Just say
By gremies
Sun, 07/05/2020 - 8:25pm
"I'm a racist-"-go ahead. Your using a fake name--go ahead StillFromDorchester--let your hate out! I'm always shocked how many people who aren't using their real names just can't admit--I hate people who aren't white. See--they know it's wrong but.... Hey SFD--go ahead, paint your Trump/fascist/Russian slogan in from of your house. Let's see who you really are.
I'm a racist?
By StillFromDorchester
Sun, 07/05/2020 - 8:32pm
And I'm white? One more strike and you are out.
Is your real name Gremies?
Can you show me where you see something you think is hateful? I have no idea what you are talking about,
. .
Once some one immediately calls you a racist
By Matt
Sun, 07/05/2020 - 8:51pm
They’ve lost the argument. Just take the W
But I don't know what the argument is?
By StillFromDorchester
Sun, 07/05/2020 - 8:54pm
Ask a question on here and people attack you. jeepers
Aha!
By Kaz
Sun, 07/05/2020 - 10:32pm
So THAT'S where Poland went wrong!
There is a town in CA
By Matt
Sun, 07/05/2020 - 8:50pm
Where people went through an approval process to do the same thing on the road in front of the courthouse steps. Then people dressed in MAGA gear started to paint over it. That’s why it made national news.
I’m not a huge fan of painting anything but I hope people at least go through a process.
precedent?
By Rob
Sun, 07/05/2020 - 9:28pm
That's actually a good question.
Awwww poor guy feels left out
By BBW
Sun, 07/05/2020 - 10:07pm
Awwww poor guy feels left out.
Nice gesture, but how about
By ZachAndTired
Sun, 07/05/2020 - 9:24pm
Nice gesture, but how about defunding the police instead? This has no material impact on anybody's life.
Unfortunately
By anony-mouse
Sun, 07/05/2020 - 10:00pm
Aligning some funding from BPD to other agencies would be nice, but unfortunately, the police required to respond to all of these calls requires OT.
Woman shot to death on Stonehurst Street in Dorchester; suspect arrested
By adamg - 7/5/20 - 12:55 pm
Boston Police report Boston's seventh murder in less than a week: A woman shot to death at 37 Stonehurst St. around 3 a.m. Read more.
Person shot on East Newton Street in the South End
By adamg - 7/5/20 - 12:55 am
In the hand, sometime after midnight at 36 East Newton St., near Father Gilday Street. Somebody then drove the victim a couple blocks to the emergency room at Boston Medical Center.
Person stabbed on Torrey Street in Dorchester
By adamg - 7/4/20 - 11:42 pm
On Torrey Street at Moody Street, shortly before 11:30 p.m.
So, because some crimes
By RoseMai
Mon, 07/06/2020 - 10:33am
So, because some crimes happen after hours and require police, we shouldn't move at all towards defunding the police? Do you really think that those crimes are the driving force behind the BPD needing a $414 million dollar per year budget? An amount 4x what the Public Health Commission receives?
That's not a good faith argument. How about we stop requiring police operating details at construction sites and required 4-hour minimum pay for any court appearance.
WBUR article to cite my sources and for further reading: https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2020/06/10/boston...
Details save the City money...
By Pete Nice
Mon, 07/06/2020 - 9:46pm
The police union negotiates wages and health insurance costs away fro detail raises because the city wants that (they make money off the details and save money off of wages and health insurance costs). Whenever people bring that up it almost makes their entire argument disingenuous.
There are many other reasons
By RoseMai
Tue, 07/07/2020 - 9:22am
There are many other reasons to defund police, so this one issue shouldn't sway anyone one way or another. Regardless, we are the last state to require cops on detail, and the costs are similar but often slightly less to have a civilian do it. So why not free up the cops to do actual police work instead of sitting around at a site?
Happy to read anything from another point of view, but I see no reason that this would make my "entire argument disingenuous". The unions refuse to let go of this job (to do their real one) because they can make easy money off of it.
More reading: https://www.telegram.com/news/20180811/10-years-af...
No material impact? Do you
By anon
Mon, 07/06/2020 - 8:43am
No material impact? Do you live in a high crime neighborhood? I’m a POC and I think defunding the police is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. Use this energy for real reform, not making our neighborhoods even less safe
Please tell me how having
By ZachAndTired
Mon, 07/06/2020 - 1:48pm
Please tell me how having some words painted on the street changes your life. Maybe there's something I'm not considering, but typically these token (but inconsequential) gestures have been used to distract people from demanding that any real change be made.
You must be confusing me for
By anon
Mon, 07/06/2020 - 2:29pm
You must be confusing me for someone else, but I don’t care much for painting BLM on the street either. It’s good for awareness but it’s not any real change that is needed, people need to stay focused. In regards to all of this I share Cuomo’s views that he shared last week which call for focusing on real reform
https://youtu.be/j6sjBLmqndc?t=40m16s
At long last
By nino nitti
Mon, 07/06/2020 - 6:12am
a 500 ft long slogan will end shooting deaths. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X Boulevards worked so well. Ditto Nubian Square. But now 5 gallon containers of paint will do it! This will turn things around for Black Boston.
Black Lives Matter is not
By eherot
Mon, 07/06/2020 - 5:33pm
Black Lives Matter is not about ending "shooting deaths," it's about putting an end to the widespread violence against black people by the police. They are really entirely different things.
It would be ironic if BPD
By Refugee
Mon, 07/06/2020 - 8:36am
It would be ironic if BPD pulled over cars going down the road for repeatedly crossing the solid yellow line.
7 murdered in Boston in less than a week. Whose lives matter?
By O-FISH-L
Mon, 07/06/2020 - 9:37am
7 murdered in Boston in less than a week, none by police. Today's Globe has exciting news on Phase III, an attempt to link Covid-19 to Neanderthal DNA (seriously), and ample Trump/Fox bashing but nothing on the epidemic of violence in Walsh's Boston. Whose lives matter again?
Maybe you should read the
By brianjdamico
Mon, 07/06/2020 - 10:05am
Maybe you should read the entire Globe from today before you start commenting that today's Globe did not cover this at all. Perhaps it isn't very detailed but B2 has all 7. And several of them, as well as some of the other recent violence outside of the city, was covered in previous editions.
That coverage only appeared
By Scratchie
Mon, 07/06/2020 - 10:38am
That coverage only appeared in the Manila edition.
B-2? Perhaps some of them,
By Rob
Mon, 07/06/2020 - 11:46am
B-2? Perhaps some of them, but some of these murders this past week were in C-11 and B-3, not to mention the other shootings and stabbings.
This is not a case of just one neighborhood being a hotspot.
B-2 is a page number in the
By brianjdamico
Mon, 07/06/2020 - 1:14pm
B-2 is a page number in the Boston Globe. The newspaper that FISH accused of having not covered those murders at all, even though they had done so.
The Globe still has a print
By Rob
Mon, 07/06/2020 - 5:16pm
The Globe still has a print edition?
...and they put that important coverage in the second section?
I'm told they still print it.
By brianjdamico
Mon, 07/06/2020 - 8:44pm
I'm told they still print it. Regardless, the "print" paper is available online to digital subscribers. I don't generally read the Globe that way but since Fish wanted to talk about "today's" Globe, I look at the e-paper to see what page it was on. I'll let their formatting and layout speak for itself, but if the local story doesn't make it to the front page, you will find it in the second section, Metro.
Breaking news
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 07/07/2020 - 11:24am
They set up the sections such that breaking or emerging news can be easily tucked in at various times up to the print run.
That's why it ends up in the second section.
Most the above comments are
By cden4
Mon, 07/06/2020 - 10:21am
Most the above comments are ridiculous. Some people really need to get a life. No, painting Black Lives Matter on the roadway will not solve racism. I think the bus drivers are smart enough to drive over it without crashing their bus. And yes there are still too many shootings in Boston. But Black Lives Matter is a message everyone needs to hear right now. I think it looks great.
Haven't heard a word
By nino nitti
Mon, 07/06/2020 - 10:43am
About Black Lives Matter in the last 3 seconds......what's it about?
Worrying about roadway safety is absolutely not ridiculous...
By anon
Mon, 07/06/2020 - 2:25pm
Especially when it affects the Silver Line, an already bad service that the Black community has dealt with for years.
When DC painted BLM near the White House, they decided to shut down the street to non-pedestrian traffic due to safety reasons (distracting bright yellow paint). I can’t find any news source indicating that the street has reopened.
Maybe
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 07/07/2020 - 11:25am
You can share a news source detailing that the shut the street for this reason and not because of a certain orange troll hiding in a bunker wanting a bigger fence?
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