My earlier post on the Red Sox World Series victory did not deserve to go up without mention of Victoria Snelgrove’s killing by the Boston Police during the post-pennant celebration. Here is a belated commentary on her death from Russ Stein, a Boston paralegal, at Lew Rockwell’s libertarian site.
Just hours after that, after the police had murdered a college girl, damage control was under way. Some old bag of a police politician named Kathleen O’Toole held a press conference to diplomatically concede responsibility (no duh!) at the same time spouting lies and spin to the brainless, tame local media that echoed all over the Internet and across the globe.
It’s sickening, watching the government/media propaganda process in action.
Every account of the murder on the Internet includes some version of Boston Police Commissioner Kathleen O’Toole’s statement: ‘I also condemn in the harshest words possible the actions of the punks who turned our city’s victory into an opportunity for violence and mindless destruction.’
I don’t know, but if I was the spokesperson for a police department which just murdered a 21-year-old journalism student with brand new, untested, ‘Less-Than-Lethal,’ lethal pepperball guns, I wouldn’t be holding press conferences denouncing anybody for anything. No, I’d be keeping my fat ugly mouth shut, that’s what I’d be doing, if I was Kathleen O’Toole.
She’s lying. She’s spinning us to make us think this was just some unavoidable tragedy caused by a sports fan riot.”
This certainly should not be swept under the rug as it appears to be, especially given that no one wants any inconvenient interference with their celebration of the subsequent World Series win.
