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Demonstrators from the Mass. Action Against Police Brutality rally march along Seaver Street in Boston on Tuesday night. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) Several hundred people gathered in Franklin Park to mark the anniversary of the killing of George Floyd and to call for local officials to do more to combat police brutality. Since Floyd s death last year, his killer, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, was found guilty of murder. Across the country, government officials, businesses and schools have promised reforms to fight racism, increase equity and hold perpetrators of racial violence accountable. Locally, that s meant a host of police reforms, including a new statewide commission to oversee policing. Boston now has an office charged with investigating police misconduct. ....
On Anniversary Of George Floydâs Death, Families Of Men Killed By Boston Police Demand Cases Be Reopened Hope Coleman, 65, the mother of Terrence Coleman, and Carla Sheffield, 56, the mother of Burrell Ramsey-White, at a rally at Franklin Park in Roxbury, Tuesday. May 25, 2021 Tori Bedford / GBH News The families of five young men who died following altercations with Boston Police â Usaama Rahim, Terrence Coleman, Burrell Ramsey-White, Ross Batista and Juston Root â gathered at Franklin Park in Roxbury Tuesday to demand that the deaths be investigated, and that the cases be reopened. At a rally organized by Mass Action Against Police Brutality on the anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, Ramsey-Whiteâs mother, Carla Sheffield, asked a crowd of around 100 people to help reopen the case involving her son, who was shot and killed by Boston Police following a traffic stop in 2012. ....
Emboldened by Chauvin verdict, protesters march against police brutality in Boston By Christine Mui, Charlie McKenna and Sofia Saric Globe Correspondent,Updated April 21, 2021, 1 hour ago Email to a Friend Bri Nichols (left) and Thatiana Desgraves marched with demonstrators through the rain from Nubian Square to Boston police headquarters calling for an end to police brutality and improved race relations.Erin Clark/Globe Staff As thunderstorms rolled through Boston Wednesday evening, activists marched through the city, calling for an end to police brutality one day after Derek Chauvin, a white former Minneapolis police officer, was convicted for the death of George Floyd. ....
Protesters demand reopening of cases of police-involved deaths By Christine Mui Globe Correspondent,Updated April 15, 2021, 1 hour ago Email to a Friend Mobile Burrell, 31, of Roxbury, held an umbrella with the names of victims during a State House protest Thursday.Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe As steady rain fell, parents whose children were killed by police officers were among about 70 people who rallied outside the Massachusetts State House Thursday evening calling on state officials to reopen investigations into their deaths. The 5:30 p.m. rally came on the same day that former Brooklyn Center, Minn. police officer Kim Potter made her first court appearance in the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a routine traffic stop this week. ....