In Boston, police ready headquarters for protests after release of video of Chicago police officer shooting 13-year-old to death

By adamg on Thu, 04/15/2021 - 5:37pm

Boston Police headquarters being surrounded by fencing

Jane Kokernak spotted BPD headquarters surrounded by fencing this afternoon, following the release of video of a Chicago seventh-grader getting shot in the chest after apparently complying with a police demand to drop a gun and raise his hands.

Neighborhoods:

Roxbury

Free tagging:

Boston Police Department

Tremont Street

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Comments

8 years ago

By anon on Thu, 04/15/2021 - 7:30pm.

Police were heroes and the public loved them. Today they have to wear body armor and erect fences and barricades to protect themselves from the people they were sworn to protect.

Not old enough to remember

By adamg on Thu, 04/15/2021 - 9:19pm.

Charles Stuart?

Or the Mooninite Invasion

By Ben_Quahog on Fri, 04/16/2021 - 8:31am.

1-31-07 Never Forget

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Nah, 8 years ago you were just a bit more ...

By Lee on Thu, 04/15/2021 - 9:38pm.

... naive than you are now.

People can do good things and

By brianjdamico on Thu, 04/15/2021 - 9:41pm.

People can do good things and bad things. This isn’t that hard.

Like when

By WalkingTheDog on Fri, 04/16/2021 - 7:38am.

Like when they drove tanks through Somerville and marched families with children out of their homes at gunpoint trying to get the guy only to miss him completely and find out hours later that they were in the wrong neighborhood? That kind of heroes?