It could possibly be a protracted summer time 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 practice by a bunch of teenagers robbing and harassing riders on the Again Bay platform.
He was damage with a head wound nevertheless it may simply have been worse. T officers initially mentioned nothing concerning the incident however later admitted Wednesday the bloodied sufferer got here in touch with the practice.
“At one level the sufferer was kicked, the power of the kick propelled the sufferer backwards as an MBTA practice was departing,” Transit Police Supt. Richard Sullivan, who earned $239,203 in 2025, mentioned. “It’s my understanding the sufferer did contact the practice.”
Your understanding? Actually? The place have been the police? Why are police now attempting to decrease the risk to riders? Isn’t it necessary that we don’t preserve T riders at midnight? The place is GM Phillip “Practice Daddy” Eng, who makes a half million {dollars} a 12 months?
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 girl onto the tracks.
The query now’s the T actually secure to journey? 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 faculty?
Nobody was arrested within the Again Bay incident after all 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 individuals driving 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 — constantly deliver up the dearth of enforcement on all two-wheeled autos working on sidewalks, operating crimson lights and cease indicators, and going the improper manner down the road,” Flynn wrote in an ordinance he’s submitting to the council.
Flynn, who’s constantly ignored by Wu and her stooges on the council, will little question discover his ordinance filed to some obscure committee and left to die.
However he has been one of many few reasonable voices of purpose within the metropolis.
“Now we have visitors legal guidelines on the books for a purpose,” he mentioned. “To offer a secure atmosphere for all. We should implement visitors legal guidelines in Boston and acknowledge and handle the mindless and random violence we’re witnessing throughout our neighborhoods. We should have zero tolerance for any prison exercise in Boston. These concerned in prison 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 overseas since profitable 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 dwell 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 most recent incidents.
