"In a new move, bars with televisions that can be seen from the street will be asked to shut their blinds. During previous games, crowds gathered around bar windows to watch the action."
"Police plot strategy for eventful weekend" by Ryan Kost, Globe Correspondent | June 14, 2008
Boston police are getting ready for a busy weekend.
The Celtics are set to face the Lakers in Los Angeles tomorrow in a game that could mean the NBA championship for the Green - something they haven't seen in 22 years.
Boston Pride Week is also wrapping up with a parade today and a number of block parties throughout the weekend.
They just never stop driving the gay agenda, do they, readers?
Please, Globe, where is the favorable coverage of antiwar protests?
In preparation for the busy weekend, police commanders met yesterday to review plans for crowd control and public safety.
"We have a very busy weekend of special events," Superintendent in Chief Robert Dunford, said at a news conference after the meeting. But preparations are "nothing out of the ordinary."
Police would say only that they will have enough officers available to handle crowds and have set up transportation for a quick response to any trouble spots.
Dunford urged the public to use public transportation and avoid taking cars onto clogged city streets. A number of roads, he said, would be barricaded and various no parking zones would be set up. Police will also be out enforcing public drinking laws, he added.
In a new move, bars with televisions that can be seen from the street will be asked to shut their blinds. During previous games, crowds gathered around bar windows to watch the action.
"We will be making sure bars aren't over capacity," Superintendent Dan Linskey said.
Overexcited crowds have dampened some of Boston's previous championship weekends.
Last fall, police arrested nearly two dozen people when a crowd grew too raucous after the Red Sox won the World Series.
An Emerson College student died four years ago after police fired pepper-pellet guns into a similar Red Sox crowd. Violence broke out at a celebration earlier that year, too, when the Patriots won the Super Bowl."I love how they minimize the police brutality -- as if they aren't pushing agendas.
After a while, you just get sick of it.
The selectivity, the bias, the whole pile of shit.
Sig Heil!
