Boston Blotter: Harvard Student vs. Police. Student Loses.

--Just because you're a Harvard student doesn't mean you're smart. The Crimson reports that a junior was arrested for "hitting and kicking a police officer and breaking the window of a patrol car." What could have irritated him so much? His friends said that he was "intoxicated at the time." That's an understatement.

--Anarchist wannabes have been torching a few American flags in Western Mass, police say. On Friday night, a large flag hanging in a man's front yard got burned, and a note at the scene claimed the "American Patriot Liberation Front" did it, according to WBZ. Ooooh … you're such rebels

--Mayor Tom Menino is weighing in on the BPD officer who was caught abusing his girlfriend in Baltimore. The Herald reports that Menino called the guy a "coward." Yet, in a display of cognitive dissonance, Commish Ed Davis can't really punish the officer. He will be suspended for only five days because, even though he got probation, he wasn't officially convicted.

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