2020 In Review: A Year Of Tragedy And Triumph For Black Lives Matter
Ife Franklin raises her first during a protest in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood on June 04, 2020 in Boston, Massachusetts.
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2020 In Review: A Look Back At Black Lives Matter
2020 will likely be remembered as the year of the Pandemic, but the year also marked a sea change in racial justice activism, as Black Lives Matter protests brought calls for police reform from the streets to city halls and state houses across the country â including Massachusetts.
In Georgia in February, an African American, Ahmaud Abery, was shot to death by a white man while jogging; In March, a 26-year-old Black woman, Breonna Taylor, was gunned down in her own home by police executing a warrant for someone else. These cases provoked angry local reactions, but It was not until the killing of an unarmed Black man in Minneapolis caught on video tape that a national wave of protests erupted. The images of
Boston City Council to vote on a trio of police reforms on Wednesday
By Danny McDonald Globe Staff,Updated December 15, 2020, 5:16 p.m.
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Boston police officers in riot gear stood near a demonstration in front of the Massachusetts State House in late June.AFP via Getty Images
Amid calls to address racism in policing, the Boston City Council is poised to vote on a trio of reform measures on Wednesday, including a plan to establish a first-of-its-kind, independent police watchdog agency in the city.
The proposal would create an Office of Police Accountability and Transparency to monitor police and community relations, review police department