Boston had it’s first straight pride parade Saturday, which allowed all people to march, it celebrated free speech and conservative values. The Grand Marshall was Milo Yanapolous a conservative gay man. Guess what it’s been called since Saturday?

Here’s the Mayor of Boston on the parade:
https://www.bostonherald.com/2...-protestor-violence/

Here’s the Mayor of Somerville his cities police assisted:
https://www.bostonherald.com/2...t-in-straight-pride/

Here’s the arrest list:

https://www.bostonherald.com/2...raight-pride-parade/

Here’s one voice of sanity in the liberal Boston media:
https://www.bostonherald.com/2...-domestic-terrorists

It’s funny how the protesters were the problem but the Mayor blames the people who behaved and marched, the city I grew up in is gone.

Don't feel like reading four articles. Care to give a synopsis? What did they call him? What's the point here?

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
Don't feel like reading four articles. Care to give a synopsis? What did they call him? What's the point here?

This ^^^^^

Two mayors accuse people in parade of being fascist and or nationalistic trolls trying to stir up trouble and focus on how it is the parade participant's fault that 30+ ANTIFA and left wingers tousled with police and got arrested.

Do you mean 'tussled'?

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Do you mean 'tussled'?

Quite so. Though I suspect the rioters were a bit tousled after their tussle with the police.

Gonna be interesting what the prosecution does at the arraignment of the 36 arrestees today. The elected DA for Suffolk County is very liberal but maybe with the assault on police charges we'll see the right stuff.

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Originally posted by yanici:
Gonna be interesting what the prosecution does at the arraignment of the 36 arrestees today. The elected DA for Suffolk County is very liberal but maybe with the assault on police charges we'll see the right stuff.

This is four months old, but it provides some insight into the DA's "thinking." Her list (see bolded text below) includes disorderly conduct, and I think some protestors were charged with that.

https://www.masslive.com/bosto...ow-level-crimes.html

‘This is precisely what Suffolk County wants;’ DA Rachael Rollins stands behind pledge not to prosecute low-level crimes

Updated Apr 5, 2019; Posted Apr 5, 2019

Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins pushed back against the Baker administration’s concerns that her pledge not to prosecute certain low-level crimes would pose a risk to public safety and hurt Massachusetts’ efforts to combat the opioid epidemic.

“I’m not going to engage in fear-mongering,” Rollins told reporters Friday afternoon at district attorney’s office. “I believe we do have an opioid crisis. I am personally aware of that. I am the guardian of two nieces as the result of it."

Rollins characterized the letter from Executive Office of Public Safety and Security Secretary Thomas A. Turco warning against Rollins’ recent policy memo as an attempt to interfere with her pledge to tackle the mass incarceration of people of color in Suffolk County.

Turco released the letter to the State House New Service Thursday night, warning that Rollins’s recent policy memo could “put at risk the Commonwealth’s ongoing efforts to combat the ongoing crisis of the opioid epidemic.”

Some of her policies could “substantially restrict government’s ability to protect victims threatened with serious crimes,” Turco wrote in a two-page letter.

Rollins questioned why state officials didn’t approve proposals to create safe injection sites to curb overdose deaths and HIV transmissions across the state instead of focusing on her policies. Rollins went on to say her pledge to not prosecute certain misdemeanors and low-level felonies is about leveling the playing field in the criminal justice system.

She also suggested that marijuana possession ― once a low-level crime that disproportionately affected black and brown residents in Suffolk County ― has transformed into a billion-dollar industry that mostly benefits rich, suburban and white businessmen.

“Why I’m standing here as your Suffolk County DA is because of the communities that have been forgotten or ignored, poor communities, urban communities, overwhelmingly black or brown communities,” she said. “We’re going to make sure the policies actually work for them just as well as they do for people in the more affluent sections of Suffolk County.”

Rollins compared the way the system treats the average criminal suspect with how it would treat members of Gov. Charlie Baker’s family — an apparent dig at his son, Andrew. The 24-year-old faced allegations that he groped a woman on a plane, but details on the status of his case have been scarce.

“Candidly, not everyone gets the benefit of the Baker family when they have interacted with the criminal justice system" Rollins said. “They don’t get to not get arrested, have the state police that reports to them handle the investigation.”

Rollins introduced her pledge not to prosecute 15 low-level offenses when she ran for district attorney in 2018. She outlined plans to implement her campaign promise in a 65-page document released by Rollins in March. She said each charge would be reviewed on a case-by-case basis to determine whether it should be dismissed, diverted or prosecuted.

The crimes include trespassing, shoplifting, larceny, disorderly conduct, threats, possession of alcohol for minors, possession of non-marijuana drugs, possession with intent to distribute, destruction of property, breaking and entering to escape cold or sleep, driving with a suspended license, and several others, even when attached to another charge.

A report from the American Civil Liberties Union in March said her predecessor, Daniel Conley, declined to dismiss about 60 percent of crimes people were charged with. Rollins’ office says her memo merely seeks to put the practice in writing to make sure it benefits all constituents, rather than certain classes of people.

Rollins argues that such a policy also ensures that her staff can focus on solving violent crimes, such as the recent kidnappings, the rape in an Uber and the estimated 1,000 unsolved homicides in the county.

Her memorandum drew the ire of some law enforcement officials who argue her pledge gives people license to commit crimes and get away “scott-free.”

Turco wrote in his letter that a rule declining to prosecute dealers of heroin, fentanyl, and other drugs would interfere with statewide efforts to stop drug distribution networks.

“I appreciate your efforts to think differently about criminal justice, accountability, and public safety,” Turco wrote. “I urge you, however, to review the concerns I have outlined above and to consider appropriate revisions to the memorandum.”

Rollins stood her ground Friday afternoon, suggesting that state officials are treating her differently than they did her male predecessors. She said she’s willing to speak with state officials about their concerns but that she won’t back down from her campaign promise.

“I ran on a platform and was very, very vocal about what I was going to be as a district attorney. I’m really excited to say I won to the tune of almost 82% of the vote, and this is precisely what Suffolk County wants,” she said.

At the arraignment today the DA asked to dismiss for 7 of the defendants but the judge said NO. Thank God these perps got a judge that doesn't appreciate Antifa and assault on police. Still time to get to the judge though or assign to another.

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Here’s the arrest list:

https://www.bostonherald.com/2...raight-pride-parade/

Average age...25.

Just the right antifa age; bunch of fucking losers that loser parents didn’t properly motivate to get a life. Now they’re in the living-in-the-basement routine and in no hurry to get said life. Maybe a stint in the pokey is just what they need to wake them up. Probably not.