Boston Cop Who Bragged About Running Down Protesters Back On Full Duty

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"The Boston Police sergeant who was caught bragging on camera about running down protesters during the George Floyd demonstrations on May 31, 2020 has been reinstated to full active duty."

Boston Cop Who Bragged About Running Down Protesters Back On Full Duty
He's awaiting discipline, but will not be fired
eoinhiggins.substack.com
8:00 AM · Oct 7, 2021

https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/boston-cop-who-bragged-about-running

The Boston Police sergeant who was caught bragging on camera about running down protesters during the George Floyd demonstrations on May 31, 2020 has been reinstated to full active duty.

Video of Sergeant Clifton McHale boasting about hitting protesters was brought to light by my exclusive reporting at The Appeal in December 2020. The clip was part of a trove of 66 hours of bodycam footage from the protests passed to me by attorney Carl Williams.

“It makes you wonder what a Boston Police officer has to do to get fired,” Williams said Wednesday after I told him of McHale’s reinstatement. "How in an unprecedented time of calls for police accountability can this be happening?"

“I’m fucking hitting people with the car”

In the video, embedded below, McHale tells another officer whose bodycam is turned on about how he just used his police vehicle to attack demonstrators.

“Dude, dude, dude, I fuckin’ drove down Tremont—there was an unmarked state police cruiser they were all gathered around," McHale says. “So then I had a fucker keep coming, fucking running, I’m fucking hitting people with the car, did you hear me, I was like, ‘get the fuck—’”

*snip*

[stillcool]

1. Someone needs to police the police

the only way to tell a cop from a criminal is the consequences.

[Solly Mack]

2. And when he kills someone they will all pretend to be surprised by it.

[Kid Berwyn]

3. If a protester did that to the cops, what would happen?

The charges likely would include attempted murder.

Then it’s unlikely a protester behind the wheel would get to that point without first being shot dead