“I’m extremely disappointed at the cadence with which we — and I include myself — have moved forward on these issues affecting policing and public health reform and schools and it’s not good enough,” said City Councilor-at-Large Khrystian King. “I would absolutely say I’m frustrated.”
Others were more explicit.
“There has been zero response from the city of Worcester,” said Joseph Hennessey, a retired police officer who now practices law and focuses on police misconduct cases. “If it was such a big priority, they would have acted upon it in May when there was the push in the multiple protests that were happening around the country back then.”