After White Boston, MA Policeman Shot in Face, Harvard Law Student Baits Black Police Supervisor Using Profanity

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In one video, officers who are trying to expand the crime scene perimeter and move back a small, but vocal, crowd are met with a barrage of epithets.
“Hands up … hands up, don’t shoot!” one woman keeps yelling. Meanwhile, the cop holding the crime scene tape keeps asking the crowd to “please move back, please move back,” as several people shout, “What the (expletive) are you doing? You gonna shoot me, too?”


TENSE SCENE: Tension erupts between residents and police Friday night in Roxbury after a shootout left a suspect dead and a police officer in critical condition.

There were no guns. No helmets. No night sticks. No mace. No dogs. Just a few cops who absorbed torrents of insults as they asked people to “please move back,” politely but firmly. And, yes, even as the crowd howled, they moved back.
It was painfully, if not laughably, obvious that the folks who decided to raise a ruckus at Humboldt Avenue on Friday night were playing to the cellphone cameras.
The amazing thing about the video was that it only emphasized the remarkable restraint of the police in the face of the empty posturing of folks who were trying with all their might to turn the incident into something it wasn’t.
ut it’s the second video that is even more shameful — and at the same time more revealing — than the first.
It shows Superintendent-in-Chief William Gross, second in command of the BPD and proud son of Dorchester, walking right up to police tape to engage the loudmouths with far more respect and class than they deserved.
But more than that, Willie Gross’ willingness to talk with people who only wanted to scream for the cameras, only served to reveal the glaring difference between how far Boston’s police force has come, as opposed to how far the police force in Ferguson, Mo., has to go.
“Respectfully,” was the word Willie Gross kept repeating over and over as he tried to explain what had happened on Humboldt, how one of his officers had been shot without provocation in what amounted to an assassination attempt.



He endured racial epithets by people of the same race, one of whom kept saying he was at Harvard Law School.
Willie Gross just smiled, kept his composure and revealed them for the fools they were.

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Gelzinis: Mob posturing to cameras tries to make Boston Ferguson
Sunday, March 29, 2015
By: Peter Gelzinis
Boston Herald