Two black student groups at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are calling for school administrators to consider disarming most of its police officers and possibly abolishing the police department altogether.
A 1,930-word online petition of the executive boards of the MIT Black Student Union and the MIT Black Graduate Student Association has gotten about 3,500 signers and has been endorsed by 82 student organizations at the university so far, according to organizers.
[Editor's Note: Below is the text of an email message that Father Daniel Moloney, the Catholic chaplain at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, sent to Catholics at the university (a group known as the Tech Catholic Community, or TCC) on Sunday, June 7, 2020. Two days later, the Archdiocese of Boston forced him to resign because of it.Like most colleges, M.I.T. has not been in session on campus since March because of the coronavirus emergency, which is why Father Moloney mentions early in the email message that he is unable to preach.
