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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1568730" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Mob posturing to cameras tries to make Boston Ferguson</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>What happens when the reality of Ferguson doesn’t apply to the corner of Humboldt Avenue and Ruthven Street?</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>What happens when a police officer gets shot in the face while approaching a stopped car, never reaching for his weapon and the 41-year-old career criminal behind the wheel decides to exit this life by trying to shoot at as many responding police officers as he can?</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>The answer can be found in a pair of pathetic YouTube videos that surfaced shortly after Boston police officer John Moynihan was shot point blank under his right eye by Angelo West, after West’s car was pulled over on Humboldt Avenue in Roxbury on Friday night.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>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.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>“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,</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>“What the (expletive) are you doing? You gonna shoot me, too?”</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>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.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>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.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>But it’s the second video that is even more shameful — and at the same time more revealing — than the first.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>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.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>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.</strong></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong><a href="http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/peter_gelzinis/2015/03/gelzinis_mob_posturing_to_cameras_tries_to_make" target="_blank">http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/peter_gelzinis/2015/03/gelzinis_mob_posturing_to_cameras_tries_to_make</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1568730, member: 12952"] [SIZE=6][B]Mob posturing to cameras tries to make Boston Ferguson[/B] [B]What happens when the reality of Ferguson doesn’t apply to the corner of Humboldt Avenue and Ruthven Street?[/B] [B][/B] [B]What happens when a police officer gets shot in the face while approaching a stopped car, never reaching for his weapon and the 41-year-old career criminal behind the wheel decides to exit this life by trying to shoot at as many responding police officers as he can?[/B] [B][/B] [B]The answer can be found in a pair of pathetic YouTube videos that surfaced shortly after Boston police officer John Moynihan was shot point blank under his right eye by Angelo West, after West’s car was pulled over on Humboldt Avenue in Roxbury on Friday night.[/B] [B][/B] [B]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.[/B] [B][/B] [B]“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,[/B] [B][/B] [B]“What the (expletive) are you doing? You gonna shoot me, too?”[/B] [B][/B] [B]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.[/B] [B][/B] [B]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.[/B] [B]But it’s the second video that is even more shameful — and at the same time more revealing — than the first.[/B] [B]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.[/B] [B][/B] [B]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.[/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=6][B][URL]http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/peter_gelzinis/2015/03/gelzinis_mob_posturing_to_cameras_tries_to_make[/URL][/B] [B][/B][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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