Police sergeant put on leave over bodycam footage of George Floyd protests
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In one of the videos, an officer is seen boasting about hitting a protester with their vehicle.
The video was posted by the news site The Appeal and showed officers using mace on protesters, making comments about attacking the demonstrators and charging at them during the May 31 event, shortly after George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis.
In one of the videos, an unidentified officer is seen talking with another about striking a protester with their vehicle. When the officer finds out they re being recorded on a body camera, they begin to change their story.
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Boston police officers with batons lined up outside the District B-2 station in Roxbury before a protest on May 31. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
Amid calls to defund police, Boston police officers and their advocates have urged for hundreds more cops to be hired. They say that these days they’re stretched thin, forced to work mandatory overtime and facing a more hostile public.
Nearly 300 officers in Boston are with the department, but they re not working. And the city is spending millions of dollars each year, to pay both the officer at home who often earns a paycheck tax-free and the overtime to another cop working to fill that staffing hole.
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A Boston police sergeant has been placed on administrative leave, and an investigation is underway after body camera footage was released Friday that showed officers violently clash with protesters during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in May.
In one of the videos, an officer is seen boasting about hitting a protester with their vehicle.
The video was posted by the news site The Appeal and showed officers using mace on protesters, making comments about attacking the demonstrators and charging at them during the May 31 event, shortly after George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis.