Residents Demand Police Reform, Point To Racial Disparities In Watertown Arrests
Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin, from the group Watertown Citizes for Peace, Justice and the Environment, is working to open up lines of communication between the Watertown Police Department and city residents.
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Watertown Police | May 6, 2021
Watertown residents are demanding that local police be more accountable and transparent after public record requests revealed that Black residents are arrested at a rate five to six times higher than white residents.
Nearly 200 people attended a contentious virtual meeting of the Town Council’s Public Safety Committee late last month, when members of the Watertown Citizens for Black Lives group presented data and proposed several anti-racism initiatives they would like to see implemented within the department.
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A woman who’d been set fire by her husband in their Lowell, Massachusetts, home died after about three weeks in the hospital with serious burns, prosecutors.
Prosecutors said the body appeared to have been in the water for a long period of time
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Firefighters removed a man s body from a canal in Lowell, Massachusetts, Wednesday after it was spotted by a passerby, authorities said.
The body in the Northern Canal near 145 Pawtucket Avenue was reported about 1 p.m., according to the Middlesex County District Attorney s Office. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.
They said the body appeared to have been in the water for a long period of time.