We always train for it and we are always trying to better prepare for it, he said.
Black Lives Matter protests in the late spring and summer as well as protests in support of law enforcement made Tavares realize his department needed better equipment and more training, he said. He also began reviews of departmental policies.
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MARSHFIELD In a new video released by the Massachusetts Chief of Police Association, Marshfield Police Chief Phil Tavares tells the story of his fathers death, the police brutality that led to it and how he went from being anti-police to the head of a department.
The video, posted to the Massachusetts Police Chiefs and Marshfield Police Department’s social media channels Tuesday, Tavares tells the story of an event from his early life that spurred his career in law enforcement: a brutal, 1987 assault on his father by police officers that ultimately killed him.
After Phil Tavares Sr. failed to leave the home of his second wife, who had a restraining order against him, police responding to the scene placed him under arrest before beating and kicking him, pulling his hair and slamming his head on a heater. Tavares Jr. bailed his father out of jail the next morning and took him straight to the hospital.