NYPD Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu
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He called the 2009 arrest of scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at the hands of Cambridge police, “every black man’s nightmare,” and used the clash to describe his own brush with what he described as hostile law enforcement officials in Chicago.
Patrick had waited more than a week before commenting on the Michael Brown killing, but was free with his emotions when he told the Herald on Aug, 20 he was “sick of unarmed black men being shot by police,” adding, “I’m sick of the lawlessness on the streets. I think everyone is just tired of when are we going to get through with this kind of thing.”
But Patrick’s bristling answers yesterday summoned the past — when the governor has clashed with the press.
Most recently, Patrick told Fox 25’s Sharman Sachetti, “Don’t ask me that question,” when she asked him how he felt regarding the decision not to indict Ferguson
police officer Darren Wilson. Wilson shot and killed an unarmed black man Aug. 9.
Patrick went on to easily answer the question while on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and said he “wanted to see an indictment.”
http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/hillary_chabot/2014/12/chabot_gov_patrick_press_clash_continues
Monday, December 22, 2014
By: Hillary Chabot
Boston Herald
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