"Holiday violence leaves city on edge; Residents are unnerved after 3 die and 5 are hurt in shootings and a beating" by Peter Schworm and Jonnelle Marte, Globe Staff And Globe Correspondent | July 6, 2008
In a staggering spate of holiday violence, those were just the fatalities. In all, seven people were shot in Boston, two fatally, in four separate shootings during an eight-hour stretch from Friday evening to early yesterday morning. Touching four of the city's neighborhoods, the night ranked among the bloodiest in the last several years, and the concentration of violence unnerved neighbors, alarmed police and city leaders, and raised fears of a grim summer marred by escalating reprisals.
But they had to have the cops at the concert!
Police said they had promising leads in all three homicides and were confident arrests would be made soon.
Yeah, sure: Drunk Killed in Downtown Boston and Other Unsolved Crimes
Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis said police stepped up home visits yesterday.
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We will arrest someday, dammit -- even if they had nothing to do with it!
And look at what SLOBS Americans are (we do the same to countries we invade, too)!
All paid for by the TAXPAYERS!
Just as pottery shards speak to archeologists of past civilizations, the debris near the Hatch Shell and along the banks of the Charles River yesterday morning told a story.
While blades of grass pressed hard into the earth spoke of the thousands who had gathered, peanut shells, mushy french fries, and rotting fruit hinted at the throng's holiday treats. Red, white, and blue pieces of confetti whispered that this had been a celebration of American independence.
In the background, men and women worked hard to erase the evidence, to leave the place as clean as it had been before people came to hear the Boston Pops and watch the July Fourth fireworks. They crawled around metal scaffolding, pulling in the wires they had unfurled just days earlier. They dismantled the stage where the Pops had played patriotic melodies - the music stands were stacked and ready to go.
The crew of 100 from the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation worked through the night cleaning up the mess the crowd had left behind, DCR spokeswoman Wendy Fox said. They started almost as soon as the last rocket shot into the night sky, and, with the help of 125 inmates, they had made considerable progress.
Yup, rather than hire citizens to do this, they will use PRISON LABOR!!!!
Get a clue, AmeriKa!!!!!
Already, Fox said, workers had collected about 20 tons of trash from both sides of the river. And they weren't done. "It's going to take another couple of days," Fox said. Once crews were finished with the stage, they would get to work vacuuming the confetti. "That's exactly what you have to do because it's just tiny little scraps of paper, and the only way to get it is to walk the whole thing."
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Vacuum the CONFETTI? Then WHY DO THIS SHIT, then?
What a WASTE of TIME, RESOURCES and MONEY!!!!
