Boston police officer John T. Moynihan, who was honored by President Obama last year as a “top cop,” is fighting for his life at a Boston hospital tonight after being shot in the face during a traffic stop.
But not everybody is happy that the media coverage is focusing on Moynihan and not the now dead suspect. Check out some of these horrible, sick tweets:
https://twitter.com/carnivaltenten/status/581660620543504384
https://twitter.com/britnidlc/status/581658331862962176
5 hours in the streets and the BPD in streets trying to intimidate civilians. #Roxburyshooting #bospoli
— Barbancourt??Papi (@HerMezzWorld) March 28, 2015
There seems to be a common theme… black bodies don't matter. Let them lie in the streets like roadkill. #RoxburyShooting #BlackLivesMatter
— #OccupyICE (@99NewEngland) March 28, 2015
Cops shot and killed a kid in Boston tonight and the body has been in the street for four hours #Roxburyshooting
— Alison Macrina (@flexlibris) March 28, 2015
Something ain't right about the coverage on the #roxburyshooting
— RHTLW (@RH3TL4W) March 28, 2015
It's not like we become numb to this shit. We are still human. it hurts EVERY time something like this happens #RoxburyShooting
— A (@AminaMo_) March 28, 2015
https://twitter.com/brownnaturalgal/status/581656956135292928
https://twitter.com/britnidlc/status/581659992991875072
https://twitter.com/femasnist/status/581659386117926912
What's this?
Not again, oh no…#roxburyshooting— ?? Anna ?? (@TallyAnnaE) March 28, 2015
They leave bodies in the streets for hours to show others in the community that this will happen to u if u mess with cops #Roxburyshooting
— Bassem Masri (@bassem_masri) March 28, 2015
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https://twitter.com/solelyvanessa/status/581658101868199936
Shorter Boston Globe: "cop injured while shooting nameless person to death" #Roxburyshooting
— Alison Macrina (@flexlibris) March 28, 2015
Boston is the most racist place I have ever been in my life #boston #Massachusetts #RoxburyShooting
— #agirlhasnoname (@Rad_Educator) March 28, 2015
https://twitter.com/jaiglad/status/581656985336197121
"You're tired of hearing about it? Imagine how exhausting it is living it."
Every 28 hours. I'm so damn tired. #RoxburyShooting
— Paige Armstrong (@paigenarmstrong) March 28, 2015
Just another statistic, another number to them. Modern day institutional racism, makes me sick #RoxburyShooting #BlackLivesMatter
— djinnsoul (@incredhoeble) March 28, 2015
https://twitter.com/DoIt_LikeTony/status/581655488414236672
RT @bexology_: Yes, cop is in the hospital.
But that guy laying on the ground? He's dead. #Roxburyshooting
— #OccupyICE (@99NewEngland) March 28, 2015
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Related:
#BlueLivesMatter, cont.: Boston cop ‘fighting for his life’ after being shot in the face; Suspect killed; Update: Officer ‘highly decorated military veteran’; Update: Officer identified as John T. Moynihan
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