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Belmont residents push Select Board to hire diversity director for town in wake of racial killing
By Jeremy C. Fox Globe Correspondent,Updated January 27, 2021, 10:46 p.m.
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Some Belmont residents called for the town to hire a diversity director and to provide funding for local antiracist organizations during a Wednesday night Select Board meeting to discuss the killing last week of a Black and Latino man in the town, allegedly by a white man who used a racial slur.
Town officials heard from Black, Hispanic, and Asian residents about their firsthand experiences with racism during the online meeting to discuss the
Friends of Henry Tapia are mourning the loss of a man they describe as “nothing short of amazing.”
Tapia, 34, was struck by a car and died a short time after an alleged road rage incident on Upland Road in Belmont on Wednesday. The other man involved, 54-year-old Dean Kapsalis, of Hudson, allegedly shouted a racial slur at Tapia, who is Black, moments before allegedly striking him with the Dodge Dakota he was driving.
Kapsalis allegedly fled the scene as Tapia lay in the street with life-threatening injuries. Tapia was rushed to Massachusetts General Hospital, where he later died.
Kapsalis, meanwhile, is being charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (the vehicle), a civil rights violation causing injury, and leaving the scene of an accident causing personal injury, according to Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan. Upgraded charges are possible as the investigation continues, she said Wednesday.