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Violence in America
I was both surprised and angered when I read that a Boston police officer was reportedly viciously attacked with injuries to both his nose and mouth (“Rep. Clark’s daughter accused of assaulting a BPD officer,” Boston Herald, Jan. 23).
Police officers were trying to arrest someone who turned out to be the daughter of a sitting US Congresswoman after she allegedly had defaced the Boston Common Bandstand. Some of the graffiti referenced “NO COP CITY!” When the police tried to arrest her, the angry mob surrounded them screaming through a megaphone. During this chaos, one officer was hit in the face.
US Rep. Katherine Clark’s daughter was arrested on charges of assault by means of a dangerous weapon, destruction of property and graffiti/tagging. It appears the protest in Boston came as another protest turned violent in Downtown Atlanta in the wake of the death of a protester who police said fired a weapon at the officers who returned fire and killed him.
The civil unrest in Atlanta was sparked by the proposed building of a public safety training center dubbed “Cop City.” The mayor of Atlanta called the violence there domestic terrorism.
Is it time to call this kind of street violence a form of domestic terrorism? Many think so. Let us hope that any protesters engaged in violent acts or assaulting law enforcement get held accountable regardless of who they are or who their parents are.
Were the actions in both Atlanta and Boston coordinated? America at the moment is in a violent place across many urban centers. Mindless violence is all around us. Without order there can be no law. It is time to bury the woke mentality and start making the streets of America safe for all to use again.
It is also idiotic that violent people turn out onto our streets fighting to stop a police safety training center from being built to better train all our officers in dealing incidents such as that which just occurred by the Parkman Bandstand.
How soon those who use violence to send a message have forgotten the whole rationale of The Embrace monument not far from the bandstand at Boston Common? We must all stand for enforcing the law and create public safety for all to enjoy.
Sal Giarratani
East Boston
Debt ceiling fiasco
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned that the Treasury Department does not collect enough in taxes to cover the spending that Congress has authorized. Then why did Congress vote for multi-trillion dollar, omnibus bill? Don’t fall for the hype that we must raise the debt limit. Only about 17% of the government will be affected. Medicare payments, Social Security checks, and Defense spending will not be touched by a government shutdown. Democrats and Rhinos will tell you the sky is falling. Don’t believe them. Citizens must demand that cuts in government waste is required before raising the debt limit. A plan to decrease spending needs to be the focus of Congress.
Donald Houghton
Quincy
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