The intersections between agents of oppression offer possibilities for connecting our struggles. They study us and are networked; we need to study them and form our own networks of resistance.
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Demonstrators from the Mass. Action Against Police Brutality rally march along Seaver Street in Boston on Tuesday night. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)
Several hundred people gathered in Franklin Park to mark the anniversary of the killing of George Floyd and to call for local officials to do more to combat police brutality.
Since Floyd s death last year, his killer, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, was found guilty of murder. Across the country, government officials, businesses and schools have promised reforms to fight racism, increase equity and hold perpetrators of racial violence accountable.
Locally, that s meant a host of police reforms, including a new statewide commission to oversee policing. Boston now has an office charged with investigating police misconduct.
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Early this April, the city of Boston released evidence that police union president Patrick Rose Sr. molested a child in 1995. This evidence has been withheld and covered up by the Boston Police Department since the initial incident. Rose pressured his victim to drop the charges. Despite this, he kept his badge for 25 years.
Rose is now facing 33 charges of sexual abuse of six minors ages 7 to 16. Among his latest victims is the daughter of the first child he originally pressured into silence more than 25 years ago. It wasn’t until August 2020 that Rose was finally charged and arrested.
Emboldened by Chauvin verdict, protesters march against police brutality in Boston
By Christine Mui, Charlie McKenna and Sofia Saric Globe Correspondent,Updated April 21, 2021, 1 hour ago
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Bri Nichols (left) and Thatiana Desgraves marched with demonstrators through the rain from Nubian Square to Boston police headquarters calling for an end to police brutality and improved race relations.Erin Clark/Globe Staff
As thunderstorms rolled through Boston Wednesday evening, activists marched through the city, calling for an end to police brutality one day after Derek Chauvin, a white former Minneapolis police officer, was convicted for the death of George Floyd.