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Entries from Bostonist tagged with 'hatecrime'

March 6, 2008

-- Police arrested the Dorchester man responsible for the February 27th lunch brawl at West Roxbury High School. Edwin Reyes, 39, surrendered to police yesterday. Police say that Reyes led a posse of four adults, including his two brothers and an unidentified woman, to assault a West Roxbury student who had allegedly beat up Reyes's son. Reyes stands accused of punching a West Roxbury student and driving his car into a school police officer while......

Continue Reading "Boston Blotter: Lunch Brawl Suspect Nabbed"

February 17, 2008

Photo by Phillyist's Matt Johnson, SkyscraperSunset.com, December 19, 2007. Phillyist explored an impending implosion and lived to tell the tale.Gothamist marveled at the city's new NYC-branded condom campaign - especially the use of a Toronto landmark in the advertising. (Also, fun fact: Gothamist turned five years old yesterday.)Tired of the worldwide Scientology protests? Torontoist totally isn't: they covered the big downtown protest the day it happened, and followed up with an examination of all......

Continue Reading "Week Around the -Ists"

December 5, 2007

--An 18-month-old baby girl from East Somerville was kidnapped, allegedly by her own aunt. WBZ reports that Somerville police found the baby today. Four people were arrested in the kidnapping of Hayden Augustin-Laurent, and one of them was her aunt, Ketia Valmont. Two detectives were hurt because one of those arrested went after them with a baseball bat. Auditi Guha at the Somerville Journal reports that the kidnapping may have resulted from a fight over......

Continue Reading "Boston Blotter: Missing Baby Found in East Somerville"

September 19, 2007

Two towns have joined Watertown in protest against the Anti-Defamation League, which sponsors the "No Place for Hate" anti-hate crime program. Belmont's Board of Selectmen voted on Monday to withdraw from the program. Yesterday, Newton mayor David Cohen issued a statement saying: "The recognition of the Armenian Genocide is an important step along the path of freedom and justice, and crucial in combating other genocides now and in the future." The Anti-Defamation League is so......

Continue Reading "Belmont and Newton Also Withdraw From the ADL's No Place for Hate"

July 20, 2007

We thought Oldies dee-jays were cheerful types who spun the Bay City Rollers and favored loud colors. But Barry Scott, who has a show on Oldies 103.3, is furious with the Provincetown Police Department after they hassled him while he was at a P-Town birthday party on Saturday night. Police say Scott was disturbing the peace because the music he was playing was too loud. Police officers told Scott to turn it down three times......

Continue Reading "A Ugly Scene Goes Down in P-Town"

April 6, 2007

--More information has emerged about one of the victim's during one of last Friday's many shootings. James Jacobs was an Army veteran who was shot and killed not in Iraq, where he fought, but in Dorchester. He was also going to school for an engineering degree. This is the kind of thing that makes you sick - someone who was making a contribution, who was fighting for us, was likely gunned down by some stupid,......

Continue Reading "Boston Blotter: A Vet Killed on Home Soil, Crimefighting Cash"

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