Victoria E. Snelgrove was an American journalism student at Emerson College in Boston,who died after being shot by officer Rochefort Milien of the Boston Police Department using a less-lethal weapon. The shooting took place following the victory of the Boston Red Sox over the New York Yankees in the 2004 American League Championship Series. In 2005,the city of Boston reached a $5.1 million wrongful death settlement with Snelgrove's family. After filing a wrongful death suit for $10 million against FN Herstal,the family agreed to an out-of-court settlement in June of 2006;the final amount of the settlement was not disclosed.
Kathleen M. O'Toole is an American law enforcement officer who served as Chief of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) from June 23,2014,to January 4,2018. She was previously the first female commissioner of the Boston Police Department,when appointed by Mayor of Boston Thomas M. Menino in February 2004.
The Boston Police Department (BPD),dating back to 1838,holds the primary responsibility for law enforcement and investigation within the city of Boston,Massachusetts. It is the oldest municipal police department in the United States. The BPD is also the 20th largest law enforcement agency in the country.
William Joseph Bratton CBE is an American businessman and former law enforcement officer who served two terms as the New York City Police Commissioner. He previously served as the Commissioner of the Boston Police Department (BPD) (1993–1994) and Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) (2002–2009). He is the only person to have led the police departments of the United States' two largest cities –New York and Los Angeles.
Michael A. Cox is an American police officer,currently serving as the commissioner of the Boston Police Department. He previously was the chief of police in Ann Arbor,Michigan from 2019 until 2022.
The Boston Municipal Court (BMC),officially the Boston Municipal Court Department of the Trial Court,is a department of the Trial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,United States. The court hears criminal,civil,mental health,restraining orders,and other types of cases. The court also has an appellate division which reviews questions of law that arise from civil matters filed in the eight divisions of the department.
Francis Michael Roache was an American law enforcement officer and politician who served as the Boston Police Commissioner from 1985 to 1993. He was also a member of the Boston City Council from 1996 to 2002 and was Suffolk County Register of Deeds from 2002 to 2015.
The Boston Marathon bombing,sometimes referred to as just simply the Boston bombing,was a domestic terrorist attack that took place during the annual Boston Marathon on April 15,2013. Brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev planted two homemade pressure cooker bombs that detonated near the finish line of the race 14 seconds and 210 yards (190 m) apart. Three people were killed and hundreds injured,including 17 who lost limbs.
Edward F. Davis III is the former police commissioner of the Boston Police Department,having served from 2006 to 2013,including during the Boston Marathon bombing. Following his resignation from the police,Davis has been the security analyst for WBZ-TV in Boston. He is the founder and CEO of Edward Davis,LLC Security and Management Consulting.
Dzhokhar Anzorovich Tsarnaev is an American terrorist of Chechen-Avar descent who was convicted of perpetrating the Boston Marathon bombing. Dzhokhar and his older brother,Tamerlan Tsarnaev,planted pressure cooker bombs near the finish line of the race,killing four people and injuring 264 others.
Tamerlan Anzorovich Tsarnaev was a Russian-born terrorist of Chechen and Avar descent who,with his younger brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,planted pressure cooker bombs at the Boston Marathon on April 15,2013. The bombings killed three people and reportedly injured as many as 281 others. He emigrated to the United States in 2004 at the age of 18. At the time of the bombings,Tsarnaev was an aspiring boxer.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Department is the police agency charged with providing law enforcement to the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The 168-acre campus extends over 1 mile (1.6 km) along the northern bank of the Charles River basin.
A triple homicide was committed in Waltham,Massachusetts,in the United States,on or very near to the evening of September 11,2011. Brendan Mess,Erik Weissman,and Raphael Teken were murdered in Mess's apartment. All had their throats slit with such great force that they were nearly decapitated. Thousands of dollars' worth of marijuana and money were left covering their mutilated bodies;in all,$5,000 was left in the apartment. The local district attorney said that it appeared that the killer and the victims knew each other,and that the murders were not random.
Ibragim Todashev was a Chechen-born former mixed martial artist,former amateur boxer and friend of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. He was shot dead at his apartment in Orlando,Florida,by FBI agent Aaron McFarlane on May 22,2013,after being interviewed there for about eight hours. He had allegedly attacked the agent,with a pipe or stick,while writing a statement about the April 15,2013,Boston Marathon bombings and a triple homicide that had taken place in Waltham,Massachusetts,on September 11,2011. The investigators involved in the incident said that Todashev had implicated both himself and Tsarnaev in the Waltham murders before he was killed. The release of the autopsy report was blocked by the FBI for about nine months,and the FBI released inconsistent information about his death and did not give the family access to some of the evidence,finally releasing Todashev's clothing and some other evidence nine years later. The family and civil rights groups alleged there were civil rights violations and excessive use of force involved in his death. On March 25,2014,the autopsy report was released and the Florida State Attorney and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced they had concluded the agent had fired in self-defense and would not face criminal charges. According to the autopsy report,Todashev had been shot seven times and there was no evidence of the shots having been fired from close range.
Paul Francis Evans,Jr. is an American law enforcement officer who served as commissioner of the Boston Police Department from 1994 to 2003 and is the current executive vice president of security and compliance for Suffolk Downs.
Joseph Michael Jordan was an American law enforcement officer who served as Commissioner of the Boston Police Department from 1976 to 1985. He was the first uniformed BPD officer to rise through the ranks to become commissioner.
Patriots Day is a 2016 American action thriller film based on the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013 and the subsequent terrorist manhunt. Directed by Peter Berg and written by Berg,Matt Cook,and Joshua Zetumer,the film is based on the book Boston Strong by Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge. It stars Mark Wahlberg,Kevin Bacon,John Goodman,J. K. Simmons,and Michelle Monaghan. It marks the third collaboration between Berg and Wahlberg,following Lone Survivor and Deepwater Horizon. The title refers to Patriots' Day,the Massachusetts state holiday on which the Boston Marathon is held.
The trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for the Boston Marathon bombing on April 15,2013,began on March 4,2015,in front of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts,nearly two years after the pre-trial hearings. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's attorney,Judy Clarke,opened by telling the jurors that her client and his older brother,Tamerlan Tsarnaev,planted a bomb killing three and injuring hundreds,as well as murdering an MIT police officer days later. In her 20-minute opening statement,Clarke said:"There's little that occurred the week of April the 15th ... that we dispute." Tsarnaev was found guilty on all 30 counts and has been sentenced to death by lethal injection for his crimes.
William G. Gross is a former American police officer who served as Commissioner of the Boston Police Department for 29 months,from August 2018 to January 2021.
Dennis A. White is a police officer who was Commissioner of the Boston Police Department. After being sworn in on February 1,2021,White was placed on leave two days later,as the city conducted an investigation into a 1999 allegation of domestic violence against his wife and teenage daughter. On June 7,2021,Acting Mayor Kim Janey fired White after legal challenges.
