If a merger between the Boynton Beach Police Department and the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office gets the green light, it could be the latest in a string of major events for the city.
A decades-long history of mistrust between communities of color and law enforcement, passed from generation to generation, sits beneath the surface, coming to light with each new Black man, woman or child whose death involved an officer. In Boynton Beach, the death of 13-year-old Stanley “SJ” Davis III, brought that distrust to the surface once more.
A decades-long history of mistrust between communities of color and law enforcement, passed from generation to generation, sits beneath the surface, coming to light with each new Black man, woman or child whose death involved an officer. In Boynton Beach, the death of 13-year-old Stanley “SJ” Davis III, brought that distrust to the surface once more.
Stanley Davis Jr., a 7th-grade student at Congress Middle School, was killed Dec. 26 after he crashed his dirt bike following an attempted police stop.