As each day passes, I realize more and more what an agenda-pushing piece of propaganda the Boston Globe is, readers.
"Police arrest dozens before annual festival; Caribbean event today has violent history" by Maria Cramer, Globe Staff | August 23, 2008
Nearly 100 Boston police officers fanned out across the city yesterday and arrested dozens of suspected gang members and alleged criminals as part of an aggressive preemptive strike against violence at today's Caribbean Festival, a cultural event that has often been marred by shootings and stabbings.
Officers from the gang and fugitive units, as well as several districts, hit three-deckers and apartment buildings all over the city, looking for people who had defaulted on warrants for crimes including shoplifting, rape of a child, and assault and battery with a deadly weapon. The alleged perpetrators, police said, are people they believe might use the festival to settle old scores.
The sweep, which netted 56 people, was sparked by lessons from past festivals and the recent violence at the West Indian festival in Hartford, where one man was killed and six others - including two children - were injured. Today's festival, which is officially called the Caribbean American Carnival, draws hundreds of thousands of people from around the city and as far as Canada and Trinidad, according to organizers.
This will get a big write-up in the paper tomorrow, watch.
You know, there are antiwar protests every week, BG, but I don't see you covering those parties!
Btw, customs checking them all, because when I go to the airport I get an anal probe.
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And no sooner does the "festival" arrive than we get our FIRST KILLING!!!
A 41-year-old Brockton man was found shot to death shortly after midnight yesterday in a Seaport District parking lot that probably would have been filled with partygoers disembarking a chartered Boston Harbor cruise.
But police said that as of last evening none of the 800 passengers aboard the Provincetown II celebrating at "Outrageous in Red," a floating reggae and hip-hop party, have come forward despite pleas for information about what happened in the parking lot between the Institute of Contemporary Art and Anthony's Pier 4, a seafood restaurant on the water.
Police did not identify the man yesterday, but a law enforcement official with knowledge of the case said he was Courtney A. Wilson, whom a neighbor described as a devoted father with four or five children.
"When I came home from work this morning, his wife was outside in the driveway with the family," said Debbie Sepulveda, 50, who lives next door on Brides Court. "We saw that she was crying, and we asked her if everything was OK. She said, 'No, Courtney passed."
A group of people sitting inside a screened tent outside Wilson's home yesterday declined to identify themselves but said they had heard of his death and it was too soon for them to comment. Sepulveda said Wilson, whom she described as tall and slender with dark hair, moved to the United States from Jamaica, and had lived next door with his family for three or four years.
Did he have a green card, or was he in the country, (gulp), illegally?
And how much you wanna bet this guy's death just fades from the Globe's coverage? I've seen it before, especially when the cops never solve the crimes, and it happens a lot!!!!
Exhibit A: Timothy Finch
Cops don't have a clue, so we will see if the fake concern the Globe shows towards lesser members of society bears itself out.
f the guy was an immigrant and gets press while the homeless vet is ignored again, what are we to think about the obvious agenda-pushing, readers?
And what is with the tourists, huh? They would walk right over a dead man?
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