January 18, 2021 BOSTON (AP) — The life of Martin Luther King Jr. was being honored in Boston and by Boston University, his alma mater, with a day of celebration on Monday while two demonstrations were planned in the city against police brutality on the federal holiday honoring the civil rights leader. One of the protests was organized by Mass Action Against Police Brutality. “It is the mass movement sparked in response to police brutality and racism that is the moral compass of the country and the true defender of democracy,” said Brock Satter, one of the organizers of the Boston protest, according to masslive.com.