police - NewBostonPost

Massachusetts

Cambridge Mayor Calls Video Of Black Harvard Student’s Arrest ‘Disturbing’

CAMBRIDGE — Police have released an onlooker's video depicting the takedown-style arrest of a naked black Harvard student police say was under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs, an incident that has prompted accusations of police brutality from a black Harvard Law School student organization and a description of "

boston

SWAT Cat, MIA for a month, saunters back

BOSTON – Boston Police rejoiced Thursday as their "SWAT Cat," who had been missing for more than a month, sauntered back to the Roxbury station she left in November. "The officers are just happy that she was safe all this time," the department said in a statement

boston

Boston police defend steps on stop and frisk

BOSTON (AP) — Boston police say they're narrowing the gap between how often black residents are subjected to stops, searches and frisks as compared with whites and other ethnic groups. But an Associated Press review of recently released police data suggests the improvement is more modest than the department

Massachusetts

Brussels attacks add urgency to Boston Marathon security

BOSTON (AP) — Boston's top law enforcement official says the attacks in Belgium have added a sense of urgency to securing next month's Boston Marathon. Police Commissioner William Evans told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday that he has no information suggesting a specific threat against

Massachusetts

First-responders given a holiday to call their own

BOSTON – Sunday marks a new holiday in Massachusetts, after Gov. Charlie Baker on Friday signed a bill designating the Sunday before Patriot's Day as "First Responder Day." "First responders put their own lives on the line to save others in danger, and we have a

police

Taliban driver’s family accuses US of murder in drone strike

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — The family of a driver who was killed alongside Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan has filed a case against U.S. officials, seeking to press murder charges, police said Sunday. Mansour had entered Pakistan from Iran using a false

Donald Trump

Protests turn violent outside Trump rally in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — In one of the presidential campaign year's more grisly spectacles, demonstrators at a Donald Trump rally in New Mexico threw burning T-shirts, plastic bottles and other items at police officers, injuring several, and toppled trash cans and barricades. Authorities labeled it a "riot.

Massachusetts

Baker reiterates support for death penalty after officer’s killing

STATE HOUSE — Following the killing of an Auburn police officer, and a shootout that resulted in a dead suspect and a wounded State Police trooper, Gov. Charlie Baker said a different approach to criminal justice might be warranted and he believes police killers should be executed. Jorge Zambrano, 35, reportedly