NEW: The #Framingham Police Department says it determined that two police officers violated a policy against “criminal conduct”—but the department has provided few details about the allegations and has demanded $525 for the officers’ internal affairs records.
#Massachusetts
Agreed💯! His family and community deserve answers and public acknowledgment.🤦🏿♂️
The ME Office was faulted in 2017 for failing to issue timely autopsy reports in 58% of cases.
Those stats had improved by their more recent audit, but here we are again, in a case involving allegations of significant public wrongdoing, with that deadline unmet...
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It has been *92 days* since Shacoby Kenny was killed by COs at the South Bay jail in a brutal assault and there is still no final autopsy report from the Medical Examiner.
His family and community deserve answers and public acknowledgment. #AllEyesOnSouthBay #ShutDownSouthBay #bospoli #mapoli
Interestingly, when I requested this information from @massgovernor.bsky.social's office, I was directed to the DOC. That suggests the governor isn't reviewing these numbers and doesn't actually know how many people she's turning over to ICE or what (if anything) they've been convicted of.
ICE DOES NOT LOVE JUSTICE, BUT THEY LOVE MASSACHUSETTS COURTS. POLICE In 2025, federal immigration agents visited our courts over and over, resulting in over 250 kidnappings. That's almost 20% of all ICE detentions reported in the state, and probably an undercount.
WHY COURTHOUSES? ICE loves our courts because they make it easy for ICE to kidnap our neighbors. ICE isn't forbidden from our courts like they are in other states, and the only thing our courts require before they hand someone over to ICE in handcuffs is an "immigration detainer"— a document ICE writes for itself. This can happen before the person is ever convicted of a crime, or even after the charges are dismissed.
WHAT A COURT ABDUCTION LOOKS LIKE: ICE learns someone they've targeted for deportation is going to be at a courthouse, as a defendant, witness, or family member ICE comes to the courthouse and watches for their target, intimidating vulnerable people seeking justice Their target, one of our neighbors, is kidnapped in the lobby or from the street outside or, if they were in state custody but should be released by the Court, gets handed to ICE directly by court officers.
This is a great overview from LUCE about how ICE is targeting immigrants in Massachusetts courtrooms. I have seen this firsthand and it's critical that we stop it.
Visit LUCE's website to learn more and sign a petition in favor of legislation banning ICE courthouse arrests: www.lucemass.org/courts
If anyone is curious to see the yearly data on Massachusetts transferring state prisoners to ICE custody through the 287(g) program, here is the letter I received yesterday from the state’s DOC. This is data that the DOC spent months trying to withhold before finally sharing it yesterday.
Why should you care that Massachusetts transfers so many people with felony convictions to ICE?
I tried to answer that question here: boltsmag.org/massachusett...
The data I've just obtained shows that the Massachusetts prison system has sent more than 2,000 people directly into ICE custody since 2009. It's facilitated between 78 and 172 prison-ICE transfers every year. Governor Maura Healey and leading Democratic lawmakers say they support this program.
In August, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Department of Correction told me that the state prison system transferred 164 people into ICE custody in 2023 and 2024.
I filed a records request seeking data for other years besides 23-24, since the state has been working with ICE long before 2023.
The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE.
Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009.
A quick thread:
Both John "Pepper Jack" Danilecki & Jarrod Gero have *long* internal affairs records, including allegations of excessive force.
Do others on the list, too?
Also Judge Krupp found Gero not credible during a 2021 motion to suppress (i.e. he lied on the stand).
Tax dollars at work! #bospoli #mapoli
Oliver takes a dump on the Schumer-led Democratic demands after Alex Pretti’s shooting — “masks off, body cams on” — noting the killers had fucking body cams on, that that footage exists, that it didn’t change shit, and that we’re likely never to see it b/c they were exonerated automatically.
Judge rejects sheriff's bid to dismiss corruption charges
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#Boston #SuffolkCounty
The same way you don't want people bombing you and your loved ones is the same exact thing that other people feel where they live.
“A former Brockton police officer and federal employee of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs was ordered to pay back funds he accepted from veterans and their families to approve and expedite benefits and disability claims, according to court records.”
We’ve spent the last 2 years “right-sizing” (closing) Boston Public Schools, because enrollment dropped.
Anyone think there will ever be an effort to “right-size” the BPD, given the low crime rates in the city?
Commissioner Cox overturns sustained Internal Affairs findings against *these very officers* (www.bostonglobe.com/2023/10/24/m...) & is getting sued for retaliating when an employee tried to expose BPD fraud (www.boston.com/news/local-n...).
She does not care. She never did. It was a ruse. #bospoli
The City knows what he does. The State knows what he does. And we keep paying Danilecki hundreds of thousands of dollars to assault marginalized people and hide behind a badge.
When the law passed, legislators said POST would *end police misconduct* in Massachusetts. Lol.
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The story is ever the same, evergreen. Police are violence workers, and the highest paid are sometimes doing the most, i.e. the worst. #bospoli #mapoli
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Both John "Pepper Jack" Danilecki & Jarrod Gero have *long* internal affairs records, including allegations of excessive force.
Do others on the list, too?
Also Judge Krupp found Gero not credible during a 2021 motion to suppress (i.e. he lied on the stand).
Tax dollars at work! #bospoli #mapoli
The system tells families of homicide victims to put all their stock in prosecution & punishment as a measure of justice. And then, when cases remain unsolved years later, they are left bereft, resentful, and without basic answers on the truth of what happened to their loved one. #mapoli #bospoli
As out turns out, the “civilization“ spread by the western powers was always repression, plunder, & mass death disguised under the language of universal rights.
"Between fiscal years 2023 and 2025, only the Nantucket County Sheriff’s Office and the Norfolk County Sheriff’s Office stayed within their annual budget appropriations, investigators wrote."
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"The DA’s office states that while on duty, Sergeant Daoust pulled over a vehicle for alleged speeding and marked lane violations. During the interaction, Sergeant Daoust used force against the driver, including physical force and the deployment of [] OC spray." #mapoli
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Not only is Massachusetts one of six Dem-run states that hasn’t banned ICE’s 287g program (see map below)….
… it’s also the only state where a state-level agency, so one under the control of the governor (@massgovernor.bsky.social) is contracted with 287g: boltsmag.org/massachusett...
"Only 10 percent of those eligible to have their records sealed here have actually done it, according to The Clean Slate Initiative, an advocacy group. That’s because we’ve made it impossibly complicated." #mapoli www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/26/m...
Spread the word! Show up for Steve next week:
🗓 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟰
🕘 9am
📍 John Adams Courthouse, Courtroom 1, 1 Pemberton Square, Boston
The hearing will also be streamed on YouTube
The DA's Office is shamefully appealing after promising to honor the judge's decision (bsky.app/profile/cour...)!
One more plug for my latest investigative story: I got body cam footage of a guy being wrongfully arrested for fentanyl after cops tested his prescription IBS medication using notoriously unreliable field kits.
It took him a year and a half to get the charges dropped reason.com/2026/02/23/h...
Read many more details, without paywalls, in this thorough thread by @andrewqmr.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/andr...
