City and federal leaders are scheduled to meet Tuesday for a briefing about recent white supremacist activity in the Boston region, according to the mayor’s schedule.Mayor Michelle Wu is scheduled to attend a briefing at Boston Police Headquarters in Roxbury around midday. Her schedule states that other attendees will include U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins and Superintendent-in-Chief Greg Long, who leads the Boston Police Department in lieu of a permanent commissioner. The group is expected to meet around midday and is scheduled to hold a news conference at approximately 12:30 p.m.Dozens of people who appeared to be affiliated with Patriot Front, a designated hate group, marched through busy parts of the city on Saturday, including the Freedom Trail.Those people concealed their faces while wearing shirts that read: “Reclaim America.” According to the Anti-Defamation League, that phrase became associated with Patriot Front after the group split from the openly antisemitic and neo-Nazi Vanguard America.Charles Murrell, a Black artist, told police he was assaulted by members of the group near Copley Square after asking them to stop and they pushed back. The confrontation was caught on camera by a newspaper photographer and police said that Murrell suffered cuts to his head, eyebrow and one finger, and was transported to Boston Medical Center to be treated. Murrell returned to the area Monday with community and religious leaders.”My understanding is that he was pushed and there was a great deal of shoving. I think that’s obvious in the photography that we’ve all seen. But there was some pushing and some shoving and words were exchanged,” said Rev. Kevin Peterson, founder of the New Democracy Coalition.Peterson said Murrell, who attended Monday’s event with a bandage on his hand, had not yet retained an attorney.When Murrell’s turn at the microphone came Monday, he sang a traditional African American spiritual, “Another Man Done Gone,” and invited the public to an upcoming concert aimed at healing and reconciliation.”I have always used art as a means of resistance,” Murrell said.Murrell only spoke about the incident indirectly.”I am appalled that even as a healer I have to get my cup poured into in this incident, but in this incident, I will continue to pour into other people’s cups,” Murrell said.At a separate event Monday, Mayor Michelle Wu said the incident was being investigated.”Investigations are still ongoing, particularly the civil rights investigation around the brief confrontation that happened right outside the police station as this group was departing,” Wu said. “We’re looking into their identities and there already has been some information shared in various parts about the national leaders of this group who were part of this effort, who were in town, were present at the recent events as this group has gone to terrorize other communities as well.”
City and federal leaders are scheduled to meet Tuesday for a briefing about recent white supremacist activity in the Boston region, according to the mayor’s schedule.
Mayor Michelle Wu is scheduled to attend a briefing at Boston Police Headquarters in Roxbury around midday. Her schedule states that other attendees will include U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins and Superintendent-in-Chief Greg Long, who leads the Boston Police Department in lieu of a permanent commissioner.
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The group is expected to meet around midday and is scheduled to hold a news conference at approximately 12:30 p.m.
Dozens of people who appeared to be affiliated with Patriot Front, a designated hate group, marched through busy parts of the city on Saturday, including the Freedom Trail.
Those people concealed their faces while wearing shirts that read: “Reclaim America.” According to the Anti-Defamation League, that phrase became associated with Patriot Front after the group split from the openly antisemitic and neo-Nazi Vanguard America.
Charles Murrell, a Black artist, told police he was assaulted by members of the group near Copley Square after asking them to stop and they pushed back. The confrontation was caught on camera by a newspaper photographer and police said that Murrell suffered cuts to his head, eyebrow and one finger, and was transported to Boston Medical Center to be treated.
Murrell returned to the area Monday with community and religious leaders.
“My understanding is that he was pushed and there was a great deal of shoving. I think that’s obvious in the photography that we’ve all seen. But there was some pushing and some shoving and words were exchanged,” said Rev. Kevin Peterson, founder of the New Democracy Coalition.
Peterson said Murrell, who attended Monday’s event with a bandage on his hand, had not yet retained an attorney.
When Murrell’s turn at the microphone came Monday, he sang a traditional African American spiritual, “Another Man Done Gone,” and invited the public to an upcoming concert aimed at healing and reconciliation.
“I have always used art as a means of resistance,” Murrell said.
Murrell only spoke about the incident indirectly.
“I am appalled that even as a healer I have to get my cup poured into in this incident, but in this incident, I will continue to pour into other people’s cups,” Murrell said.
At a separate event Monday, Mayor Michelle Wu said the incident was being investigated.
“Investigations are still ongoing, particularly the civil rights investigation around the brief confrontation that happened right outside the police station as this group was departing,” Wu said. “We’re looking into their identities and there already has been some information shared in various parts about the national leaders of this group who were part of this effort, who were in town, were present at the recent events as this group has gone to terrorize other communities as well.”
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