The good
crowd chants "Black Lives Matter" while holding up phone lightshttps://twitter.com/dotdotdot_BOOM/status/1267335155561246722
crowd of lights
https://twitter.com/kendratuna/status/1267303158340038656
statehouse crowd
https://twitter.com/MizzAngieV/status/1267329172571148288
mutual applause moment passing Tufts Medical
https://twitter.com/StringerBoston/status/1267244732826161152
another
https://twitter.com/ariellabellaa13/status/1267319136348254208
drumming and chating and phone lights around dusk
https://twitter.com/xietymemes/status/1267326379311411203
And really lots more. Last night I read probably hundreds of positive posts from 6pm to 9pm about the Boston protest as they marched from Nubian Square to the State House.
The bad
BPD smashing their own car windowshttps://twitter.com/_fynewyne/status/1267394150212816896
another view
https://twitter.com/mattemattmatte/status/1267316793607061504
counterpoint? this may be earlier video of the same car, and maybe later BPD was trying to clear shattered glass so they could see to drive it away?
https://twitter.com/Nelsonbarros_12/status/1267317955429371904
https://twitter.com/Nelsonbarros_12/status/1267309532411297792
This might be the same suv being driven away later?
https://twitter.com/bomsgifs/status/1267301097225551874
This might be the same suv being driven away later?
https://twitter.com/bomsgifs/status/1267301097225551874
https://twitter.com/MokhaPapi/status/1267321326949355520
big white dudebro yelling at cops he's gonna fuck them up
https://twitter.com/StringerBoston/status/1267395690612867073
gosh, you come looking for a fight you just might find one
possibly another view of that moment, you can see BPD grabbing a protest sign, and while the protester still holds onto it BPD sprays them
https://twitter.com/jasnguzman/status/1267324984776679424
random boston common teargas hellscape
https://twitter.com/Dnxmb2/status/1267367073908436993
note the bike cop in the lower right spraying people as they run away
https://twitter.com/NicLaschever/status/1267360848269455361
white people vandalizing and crowd calling them out on it
https://twitter.com/ugh_ren/status/1267357678092894208
30+ minute video of a guy wandering the protest teargas hellscape on Boston Common last night (starts at the scene of BPD smashing their own car)
https://youtu.be/QjYJMmShTp0
police/guard line advancing down a street grabs and throws to ground protester who was mirroring their line
https://twitter.com/TobinMary/status/1267355384274182146
street full of military vehicles
https://twitter.com/luciana98214252/status/1267346730720415744
hummers and prison bus rolling in
https://twitter.com/loneIiestplace/status/1267288733881110528
police over unresponsive black man (tweet claims this is just post beating)
https://twitter.com/38swavey/status/1267335929838125056
police line scuffle
https://twitter.com/iza_rey/status/1267330412994576385
scuffle in front of suoffolk law, police car comes in then backs out
https://twitter.com/MokhaPapi/status/1267320194655027200
police line advances on protesters (reports of gas)
https://twitter.com/brenna0326/status/1267290162574372868
the moment the ATT store on Boylston gets opened and looting starts
https://twitter.com/RoyAvieli/status/1267319653908525057
aggressive police line (borrowing some hakka style?) smoke grenade?
https://twitter.com/DrQatherine/status/1267319227725295619
3 BPD cars driving fast through State House protesters
https://twitter.com/Tori_Bedford/status/1267343596753166336
organizers calling a peaceful end to the official protest
https://twitter.com/Tori_Bedford/status/1267262624825331718
police line vs crowd, crow throwing water bottles
https://twitter.com/Tori_Bedford/status/1267266676002820100
people running from pepper spray cloud
https://twitter.com/Tori_Bedford/status/1267266960133443584
things and smoke cans thrown both ways, Tremont St, downtown Boston
https://twitter.com/Tori_Bedford/status/1267266799218888710
smoke clouds on Tremont St, downtown Boston
https://twitter.com/Tori_Bedford/status/1267266909143171073
firework thrown into crowd of cops
https://twitter.com/WCVB/status/1267293105029611521
jewelry store looting
https://twitter.com/WCVB/status/1267276579694149632
crowd runs away from smoke/gas
https://twitter.com/WCVB/status/1267272343455490049
crowd with smoke/gas, can being thrown back
https://twitter.com/WCVB/status/1267266862192234498
https://twitter.com/_dasshy_/status/1267306468052799488
"You are ordered ... to (disperse) the area or we will deploy gas"
https://twitter.com/kyliejmariie/status/1267296234177466368
many police in theatre district, one corner out of a windshield
https://twitter.com/_t_13/status/1267303762835668992
BPD car playing chicken with protesters
https://twitter.com/SBolotana/status/1267295787840610305
Irony
closeup of BPD officer with a Bob Marley covid maskhttps://twitter.com/iMissbeyhave_/status/1267333872854982663
WGBH radio this morning, "As of today office buildings in Boston are allowed to welcome back workers at limited capacity."
