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There was tragedy in Worcester Friday afternoon. (Neal McNamara/Patch)
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Drowning mount as heatwave grips New England
With the state still reeling from losing a 38-year-old Worcester police officer and the 14-year-old he was trying to save in a local pond, a rash of deadly water incidents has continued over the weekend.
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Dennis White is still technically the police commissioner, despite the city s efforts to unseat him. (City of Boston via AP)
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Janey is trying to move on from Dennis White, the police commissioner who has spent three months on leave after a 22-year-old domestic violence allegation was uncovered just a couple days after he was sworn in.
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Following new revelations from an independent report into decades-old domestic violence allegations against suspended Boston Police Commissioner Dennis White, Acting Mayor Kim Janey said Friday afternoon that she believes the city should install a new person to lead its police department.
“Dennis White’s admitted behavior does not reflect our values,” Janey said during a press conference at City Hall. “It is clear from the report that we have to move in a different direction.”
White, 59, was placed on administrative leave in February just days after replacing retired Police Commissioner William Gross, after
The Boston Globeraised questions about allegations in 1999 that the longtime officer pushed and threatened to shoot his then-wife. White, who was never charged with a crime, has denied the specific allegations, but his lawyer conceded in subsequent divorce filings that “there were incidents of fighting” between the couple that sometimes “escalated to som