It may very well be an extended summer season within the metropolis as teams of marauding teenagers on foot and motorized bikes terrorize T riders and residents whereas an MIA Mayor Michelle Wu and police stand by.
The newest violent incident got here Tuesday night when a 27-year-old man was kicked onto a departing Orange Line prepare by a bunch of teenagers robbing and harassing riders on the Again Bay platform.
He was harm with a head wound nevertheless it may simply have been worse. T officers initially stated nothing concerning the incident however later admitted Wednesday the bloodied sufferer got here involved with the prepare.
“At one level the sufferer was kicked, the pressure of the kick propelled the sufferer backwards as an MBTA prepare was departing,” Transit Police Supt. Richard Sullivan, who earned $239,203 in 2025, stated. “It’s my understanding the sufferer did contact the prepare.”
Your understanding? Actually? The place had been the police? Why are police now making an attempt to decrease the menace to riders? Isn’t it essential that we don’t hold T riders in the dead of night? The place is GM Phillip “Practice Daddy” Eng, who makes a half million {dollars} a yr?
That is the second time in the previous few months {that a} T rider has been assaulted. Within the earlier incident, a homeless man pushed a lady onto the tracks.
The query now’s the T actually secure to experience? And in Wutopia, is it secure to stroll in Downtown Crossing and the Seaport?
And what’s mayor’s technique to fight these incidents as the hotter climate attracts close to and increasingly children are out on the streets and out of college?
Nobody was arrested within the Again Bay incident in fact however for shocked witnesses it was an alarming and horrifying commute house. Police say they’re actively investigating and reviewing video footage.
This crime got here just a few days after a bunch of younger folks using e-bikes and grime bikes infiltrated Chinatown and Boston Widespread, horrifying residents and prompting a metropolis councilor to query whether or not police are imposing the legal guidelines.
“Neighbors and pedestrians all through the town of Boston – together with our seniors, individuals with disabilities and younger households — persistently deliver up the dearth of enforcement on all two-wheeled automobiles working on sidewalks, working pink lights and cease indicators, and going the mistaken method down the road,” Flynn wrote in an ordinance he’s submitting to the council.
Flynn, who’s persistently ignored by Wu and her stooges on the council, will little doubt discover his ordinance filed to some obscure committee and left to die.
However he has been one of many few average voices of purpose within the metropolis.
“We’ve got site visitors legal guidelines on the books for a purpose,” he stated. “To offer a secure surroundings for all. We should implement site visitors legal guidelines in Boston and acknowledge and tackle the mindless and random violence we’re witnessing throughout our neighborhoods. We will need to have zero tolerance for any legal exercise in Boston. These concerned in legal exercise have to be held accountable in our courtroom system.”
Wu has been in Germany all week on a paid junket, which coincidentally is on safety, and has had no public appearances in Boston for days.
In Munich – her second journey in another country since successful reelection – Wu was posing for images with Hillary Clinton and shining up her nationwide profile, which is prompting hypothesis about her political future.
Even when she comes again, she is going to do nothing to crack down on these violent teenagers breaking the regulation and making the town unsafe to stay and work in.
That’s as a result of she has lengthy claimed Boston is the most secure main metropolis within the nation, a laughable assertion given the newest incidents.
