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Nearly a week after a mistrial was declared in the case of a man charged with killing two people including a Weymouth police officer, the city came together to pay homage on the 5th anniversary of his death.
Emanuel Lopez, 25, faces 11 charges - including two counts of murder and armed assault with intent to murder involving a firearm - after an officer and 77-year-old woman were killed in July 2018.
The man is accused of grabbing Weymouth Police Officer Michael Chesna's gun and fatally shooting the officer and killing a bystander in 2018, according to officials.
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A billboard with the “blue lives matter” flag. Tony Webster – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic.
High school student Bodhi Kolwaite noticed an increase of “blue lives matter” imagery in his town of Weymouth, Massachusetts, and decided to do something about it. Since the recent uprisings against police brutality across the country, he noticed the imagery adorning classroom walls, football games and even the masks of some teachers. Kolwaite began by creating a petition to call for their removal.
“For years now our school system has had this ‘blue lives’ flag which propped up as a direct opposition to the Black Lives Matter movement has been paraded around at our school,” Kolwaite reported to Liberation News. “Due to the murder of George Floyd and the protests that sparked, a group of students and I felt as though it was about time to take this hateful symbolism out of our place of learning. It’s making students of color feel e