Great reporting on Somerville police misconduct in this week's Somerville Journal

[ron_newman]

Here on DSLJ we often bash the two local newspapers, so I'd like to call everyone's attention to an excellent article by Erin Smith in this week's Journal:

SHS students say Somerville police officer hit them, falsely accused them of being gang ringleaders

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Comments

[dominika-kretek.livejournal.com]

It's awesome that the reporter was able to find people who knew these kids, including THE MAYOR???

[jenskot.livejournal.com]

I'm really glad the editors also had the courage to run this story, when so many (law-abiding) citizens live in fear of the corrupt and cronyistic police. Here's hoping they don't find themselves shut down under false violations... :/