Elected officials rebuke Boston police union tweet targeting City Councilor Andrea Campbell
By Travis Andersen Globe Staff,Updated May 3, 2021, 11:39 a.m.
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City Councilor Andrea Campbell spoke during a press conference outside Boston City Hall.Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe
The Boston Police Departmentâs largest union and City Councilor Andrea Campbell traded barbs on Twitter last week, with the labor group accusing the mayoral candidate of âenabling criminals,â prompting elected officials to come to her defense and rebuke the officers for what they said was racist and bullying rhetoric.
The spat began Wednesday, when the Boston Police Patrolmenâs Association tweeted out a link to a Boston Herald story indicating that Campbell was holding up $1.2 million in BPD grants aimed at combating gun violence and gang activity. The union wrote that Rev. Eugene Rivers, a longtime anti-violence advocate in the city, was âjustifiably astonished
Who lives in âglass housesâ? Not Andrea Campbell.
In what looks like payback for raising questions about police funding, the Boston Police Patrolmenâs Association is trying to taint Campbell with the alleged wrongdoing of her brother.
By Joan Vennochi Globe Columnist,Updated May 3, 2021, 3:22 p.m.
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Boston City Councilor Andrea Campbell announced her bid for mayor in Roxbury on Sept. 24.Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff/The Boston Globe
When William M. Bulger was president of the Massachusetts Senate, he was touted as the good brother who should not be held responsible for the criminal activities of his bad brother, Whitey. Viewed through the same prism, Boston City Councilor and mayoral candidate Andrea Campbell should be seen as the good sister.
Campbell Calls Boston Police Union Attacks Racist And Sexist
Boston City Councilor and mayoral candidate Andrea Campbell talks to campaign volunteers in Jamaica Plain
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City Councilor and mayoral candidate Andrea Campbell said Sunday that the recent personal attack against her on social media by the Boston Police Patrolmenâs Association is part of a larger trend of racial and gender hostility that goes âbeyond unprofessional.â Campbell said that the police union s attacks on women and elected officials of color should worry its rank-and-file members and alarm the public.
âItâs a pattern that weâre seeing from this particular union where they come out with personal attacks â particularly directed towards women, electeds of color â that are racist, that are sexist,â Campbell told GBH News.