(BOSTON) JAN 17 – MASSACHUSETTS STATE LAWMAKERS FILING A FLURRY OF STATE LEGISLATION THAT WILL TOUGHEN PENALTIES FOR BLOCKING HIGHWAYS FOLLOWING THURSDAY MORNING’S SHUT DOWN BY ANTI-RACISM PROTESTORS OF INTERSTATE 93 OUTSIDE OF BOSTON.
FOX NEWS RADIO’S BILL MARCUS HAS MORE FROM BOSTON.
29 WERE ARRESTED IN THURSDAY’S ACTION. ONE WOMAN WHO WAS EMPLOYED BY THE CITY OF BOSTON LOST HER JOB BECAUSE OF HER ARREST. MANY OF THE PROTESTORS COMPLAINING OF WHITE SUBURBAN COMPLACENCY WITH RECENT KILLINGS OF BLACKS BY POLICE WERE FROM OUTSIDE THE STATE.
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MASS STATE REPRESENTATIVE TIM WHALEN (R-BARNSTABLE) IS ONE OF MANY LAWMAKERS FILING BILLS IN THE WAKE OF THURSDAY’S PROTESTS THAT SHUT DOWN THE MAIN NORTH-SOUTH HIGHWAY INTO BOSTON. PROTESTERS SAY THEY WANTED TO RAISE CONSCIOUSNESS ABOUT WHITE COMPLACENCY IN THE WAKE OF HIGHLY PUBLICIZED POLICE KILLINGS OF BLACKS NATIONWIDE.