the court cited an aclu study that showed while black people make up only 25 of the boston population they account for 63 of police encounters. Late today, Police Commissioner William Evans said his officers dont target people, but rather criminal hotspots. Evans said the justices should have taken that into account. I am a little disappointed that they rely heavily on the report that didnt take into context who was stopped and any other cases likely to be overturned by todays ruling. But the high court urged judges to take into account racial profiling when deciding in future cases if police are out of bounds. Live in boston, david bienick, Wcvb Newscenter 5. Ed now to an offduty Boston Police officers altercation with a pedestrian. The commissioner saying a thorough investigation proves the officer did not use live with more, including reaction from that pedestrian. John cellphone video of what happened this spring went viral but today police say a new camera angle really shows a dif
Dont worry about it little marco. Reporter the latest t. V. Debate turns nasty as they throw a bar arch over tax. Barcelona break another record and 35 matches unbeaten and messi and friends as they break the spanish record set by bitter rivals in madrid. The u. N. Has reported a sharp rise in allegations of sex abuse against its staff, a new report cataloged 99 accusations of abuse. U. N. Missions in Central African republican and democratic republic of congo and ivory coast animally counted for a majority of the claims and we report. Reporter u. N. Peace keepers were supposed to come to the rescue in Central African republic and instead accused of Sexual Exploitation and the number of allegations of sex exploitation were accused by the staff of 99 last year compared with 80 the year before a statement says this regrettably means more needs to be done for allegations and more importantly the number exploited by abuse perpetrated by u. N. Personnel. 21 countries who the nationals are a
Our correspondent is in the capital joint enterprising us live. Tell us a bit more about the nature of these abuses that are being reported. The report itself is very damning the. Most offences are being sexual abuse reported, some of them, many of them involving minors. In fact, its a name and shame report of sorts that indicates peace keepers mainly from several african and european countries, like burundi, tanzania, france, canada. These are reports like up said are coming out from countries that have people there who desperately need the u. N. Peacekeepers for their safety, a country like haiti, reports of sexual abusers there, mali, congo, ivory coast and car where we have 22 reported sexual abuse cases in the democratic republic of congo. There are 16 cases that have been reported. It is a very serious report, very embarrassing to the u. N. And i have been speaking to a human rights campaigner who has been following these incidents and he said that he accused the u. N. Of what he
Fee speakers away from dying out altogether. Police in brazil raided the home of the former president desilva as part of a corruption inquiry into pet pro brass. Investigators questioned him but he denies wrongdoing. Dozens of exception and politicians in brazil have been implicated in this long running inquiry claiming fraud took place at pet pro brass. Its being called the most politically explosive development in the corruption investigation to do with a staterun and owned oil company. Hundreds of armed police raided different locations across three different states in brazil, including rio and sao paulo and one of the homes raided is that belonging to the former president desilva. He was brought in for questioning. He is not being arrested, police clarify, but has been brought in for questions. He is expected of being involved or having information or indeed knowledge to do with corrupt practices at petro brass, including the time that he was still president. Now his protege is cur
Off the phone with methuens police chief. He tells us a student at the school alerted them to the threat there was a planned date for the attack and the suspect were telling the Good Students not to show up to school that day. Both of these middle School Students have beenard. We are set to talk with police in just a few minutes time. Much more on this developing story and breaking story throughout the newscast. The news comes just days after a Methuen High School student was arrested on similar charges that student also threatened to shoot up the school. Police did search his home. They found ammunition but no guns that cold hold the amo. Also this week a student at methuen high was arrested for pulling the fire alarm. Also breaking tonight Hurricane Patricia slamming into mexicos west coast. The strongest hurricane on record before making landfall. Now causing total chaos late tonight in places like Puerto Vallarta. Winds and rains really picking up as the storm charged closer today