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Keller @ Large: We Need And Appreciate Professional Police
BOSTON (CBS) – No serious person doesn’t appreciate what honest cops do for us. Without them and the risks they take, the bad guys would have a field day. And bad guys certainly do come in all shapes...
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Boston Police Brace For Ferguson Demonstrations With Grand Jury Decision Near
BOSTON (AP) — From Boston to Los Angeles, police departments are bracing for large demonstrations when a grand jury decides whether to indict a white police officer who killed an unarmed black teenager...
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Boston Police Commissioner Urges Students Protest Peacefully After Ferguson...
BOSTON (CBS) – Boston Police Commissioner Bill Evans sent a message to area college and university students Thursday asking that any demonstrations that arise from the grand jury’s decision on a...
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Fires In Ferguson, Peaceful Protest In Boston
BOSTON (CBS) – While there were fires, violence and looting in Ferguson, Missouri early Tuesday morning, there was peaceful protest in Boston. Read: Keller: Saner Heads Need To Prevail Late Monday...
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Keller @ Large: Saner Heads Need To Prevail
BOSTON (CBS) – Our country is a big place, with all kinds of people in it. Most, I believe, are decent and honest. Some are not. By the time you hear this, chances are you will already have heard from...
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Red Sox Apologize For Ill-Timed Tweet Following Ferguson Announcement
BOSTON (AP) — Red Sox fans cried foul over an innocuous tweet the team acknowledges was ill-timed — the second social media gaffe by a Boston pro sports team in as many weeks. The Red Sox tweeted: “So...
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51 Arrested In Boston Ferguson Protests, Trooper Bitten
BOSTON (CBS/AP) — State Police say 51 people were arrested in Boston late Tuesday night during protests of a grand jury’s decision not to indict a white Ferguson, Missouri, officer who fatally shot an...
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Hillary Clinton Backs Probes Of Chokehold, Ferguson Deaths In Boston Speech
BOSTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday the nation’s criminal justice system is “out of balance” and she supports federal reviews of police-involved deaths of black men in Ferguson,...
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Cardinal O’Malley Calls For Prayers After Controvesial Grand Jury Decisions
BOSTON (AP) — Cardinal Sean O’Malley is calling for prayers in the aftermath of the deaths of unarmed black men in New York City and Ferguson, Missouri. The Archdiocese of Boston released a blog post...
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Harvard Law Students Want Exam Delays Amid Brown, Garner Cases
BOSTON (AP) — Minority students at three prestigious law schools say they want to delay final exams because they’ve been busy protesting grand jury decisions in the deaths of unarmed black men at the...
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Danny Ainge Has ‘No Problem’ With Players Speaking Out On Social Issues
BOSTON (CBS) – Citizen protests abound throughout the country in the aftermath of the Ferguson and Eric Garner grand jury decisions, the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland and other...
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Police Arrest 23 During Boston Protests
BOSTON (CBS) – Massachusetts State Police said they have made 23 arrests so far as a result of ongoing protests Saturday in Boston. The protests began peacefully but tensions began to escalate once the...
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Boston Police Thank Protester For ‘We Don’t Hate You’ Note
BOSTON (CBS) — Boston police are thanking a demonstrator who handed out flowers and notes to officers during Saturday’s protests. Twenty-three people were arrested during the demonstrations over the...
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Keller @ Large: Rev. Eugene Rivers On Community Policing
BOSTON (CBS) — Last week, WBZ-TV political analyst Jon Keller spoke with Boston Police Commissioner William Evans about issues of community policing and police brutality. This week, Keller’s guest is...
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Walsh Frustrated By Lack Of Dialogue With Protesters
BOSTON (CBS) — Boston Mayor Marty Walsh says that overall, police have handled recent protests well, allowing demonstrators to march without letting them block major highways. But Walsh does say he is...
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Boston High School Students Leave Class To Protest Police Shootings
BOSTON (AP) — Dozens of students from Boston public schools have walked out of class to protest recent grand jury decisions not to indict white police officers in the deaths unarmed black men in...
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Top National Stories Of 2014
MALAYSIAN AIRLINES PLANE SHOT DOWN Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was show down over a pro-Russian territory in Ukraine in July during the height of the Russia-Ukraine unrest. All 283 passengers and 15...
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Wanted Man Killed After Wild Chase From Massachusetts To New Hampshire
NEWTON, N.H. (CBS) – A wild one hour police chase that began in Malden ended in New Hampshire with the wanted man dead. Police say Michael Brown, 40, of Presque Isle, Maine, fired at Massachusetts...
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Use Of Deadly Force In June Police Pursuit, Shooting Justified By NH Attorney...
NEWTON, N.H. (CBS/AP) — New Hampshire’s attorney general said the use of force by police was justified in the case of a man who led Massachusetts state troopers on a 40-mile, hour-long car chase into...
View ArticleMichael Brown’s Mother, Attorneys To Speak At Harvard Panel
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — The mother of Michael Brown and the maker of a documentary about his death will be speaking at Harvard University. Brown was an unarmed, black 18-year-old when he was fatally...
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