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Massachusetts

Warpy

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3. Nobody got shot

Reply to MannyGoldstein (Reply #2)

Sun Nov 30, 2014, 05:00 PM

Nov 2014

but Gates was humiliated and I doubt he's looked at the cops the same way since.

Boston cops aren't quite as gun happy as other city cops are. Even when they rioted in 1970, they beat the crap out of anyone they caught with their nightsticks instead of firing shots and using gas in a congested area.

The only time I saw them use firearms overkill was when they got Dzhokar Tsarnaev and they really didn't know what they were facing in terms of firepower.

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Mass residents: How do you feel about our cops? [View all] MannyGoldstein Nov 2014 OP

Shall we talk about Cambridge and Professor Gates? JDDavis Nov 2014 #1

That was a @$!# up MannyGoldstein Nov 2014 #2

Nobody got shot Warpy Nov 2014 #3

Actually, that was the Watertown, Mass, State Police, Transit police, Cambridge police JDDavis Nov 2014 #4