Update: Board concluded the attack was unforeseeable and not due to anything the post did or didn't do, so no licensing violation.
The Boston Licensing Board could decide Thursday whether an American Legion post in Dorchester could have prevented a man getting punched and knocked into unconsciousness on Dec. 27, leaving him so close to death police called in the homicide unit just in case. Read more.
Bob Lynch, a.k.a., Redlight, vice president of he American Legion Riders Chapter 78 out of the Fogg Roberts Legion post in Hyde Park, snapped some of the scores of motorcycles and riders who gathered Sunday morning at Bose headquarters in Framingham. Read more.
Jamaica Plain News reports American Legion Post 76 has agreed to pay a $15,000 fine and restitution and require staff to attend classes on public-accommodation laws after they were charged with treating a black family throwing a sweet sixteen and their guests like crap.
The AG’s Office further alleges that when an African American photographer arrived, he was stopped by the same bartender, who suggested he might be carrying a gun and required him to open his bags so they could be inspected. Throughout the night, Post 76 staff were also overheard making derogatory comments about the African American guests. Post 76 then allegedly ended the party early.
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