The list of African-Americans killed by lethal police force in the last year is chillingly long: Michael Brown in Ferguson, Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Freddy Gray in Baltimore and Walter Scott in South Carolina, just to name a few. Their deaths have fueled the national movement known as 'Black Lives Matter,' sparking mass protests, sometimes violent.
Then there’s Boston, where two recently fatal shootings by law enforcement have not come close to eliciting the same reaction. WGBH News Reporter Adam Reilly (@reillyadam) takes us deeper.
In Boston, “you have police leaders who are quite sincere about getting the info out as quickly as possible,” Reilly reports.
