The Fence: A Police Cover-Up Along Boston's Racial Divide (52 page)

Anti-Crime Unit, Boston Police Department, 45–47

Anti-Gang Violence Unit (AGVU), Boston Police Department, 1, 7–11, 26–28, 45–46

call for investigation of Cox beating by, 164

M. Cox and C. Jones as members of, 7–9, 26–28

Back Bay neighborhood, Boston, 46

Ball, Carol S. (attorney), 229, 298

Bennett, Bob (attorney), 326, 327

Bennett, William, 65

Blue Hill Avenue, 1, 3, 12, 13

blue wall (code of silence)

A. M. Doherty’s admission of, 277

beating of M. Cox and cover-up, 145–46, 197–99, 232, 270, 277, 296, 308, 310, 322

Brighton 13 case, 75–76

D. Dovidio’s deceptions and, 149–50, 306–8

jurors in Cox civil suit trial on, 308

research on, 197–98

Boogie-Down.
See
Tinsley, Ron “Boogie-Down”

Boston, Massachusetts

Cox civil suit against, 321–22

First Night activities, 224

school desegregation and busing in, 11, 16, 35, 56–57

Southie (
see
South Boston “Southie”)

“white flight” to suburbs in, 16

Boston City Hospital

treatment of Lyle Jackson in, 3

treatment of Mike Cox in, 2, 3

Boston Globe
(newspaper), 4, 15, 65, 200, 218, 256

columnist B. McGrory on Cox case, 321–22

coverage of M. Cox beating case and trials, 166, 167, 287, 288–89, 302, 319

Boston Herald
(newspaper), 68, 210

coverage of M. Cox beating and trials, 164–65, 167, 287, 289, 319

coverage of investigation of M.

Cox case, 199

Boston Police Department, 64–77

abuses of (
see
police abuses, Boston)

Anti-Corruption Unit (see Anti-Corruption Unit, Boston Police Department)

Anti-Crime Unit, 45–47

Anti-Gang Violence Unit (
see
Anti-Gang Violence Unit [AGVU], Boston Police Department) beating of Mike Cox, 132, 133–35 (
see
also Cox, Michael Anthony “Mike”; Cox criminal and civil lawsuits) blue wall in (
see
blue wall [code of silence])

Brighton 13 case, 26, 72–77

brutality cases, 26, 72–77

case of Charles and Carol Stuart handled by, 64–65, 185

K. Conley joins, 59

M. Cox joins, 80–81

crime rates and, 68, 70

Drug Control Unit corruption, 59–60

Early Intervention System (EIS) in, 67, 97, 190

Internal Affairs Division (
see
Internal Affairs Division, Boston Police Department)

murder of L. Jackson and response of (
see
police chase and capture of suspects in Lyle Jackson murder)

new rules issued by Police Commissioner following Cox beating, 191–93, 198

police officer deaths, 59

police perjury in, 69–70 (
see also
police perjury) problem of black officers mistaken as suspects, 82–83, 85–89, 91–92

racial stereotyping and abuses by officers of, 64–65, 67–69

recruitment and hiring practices of, 78–79, 81

St. Clair Commission investigation of, 65–66, 67

Boston Red Sox, 189, 281
Brady v. Maryland
, 264

Bratton, William “Bill” (police commissioner), 91–92

comments on police perjury, 216–18

Brighton 13 case, 26, 72–77

Brooke, Edward III, 260

Brookline, Massachusetts, 16

Brown, Destiny (daughter of Smut Brown), 325

Brown, Mattie (mother of Smut Brown), 31–32, 34, 39, 40, 41, 93, 265, 326

Brown, Robert Jr. “Bobby”(father of Smut Brown), 31, 33–34, 36

Brown, Robert III “Smut,” 29–48

arrest and booking of, after police chase, 132–33, 147, 148, 151, 152–53, 182

K. Conley perjury trial and statements of, 263–69, 353–54

at Cortee’s club, 29–31, 42–43, 98–99

Cox civil suit and statements of, 286–87, 298, 300, 305, 311–12

criminal activity and arrests of, 37, 39–40, 94–95

drug dealing and drug use, 37–38

early life and family of, 31–36

education of, 35–36, 56

encounter with M. Cox following civil trial, 324–25

encounters with police, 67–68, 93–95

fire at family home of, 40–41

get away from Walaikum’s, police chase and arrest of, 113–15, 119–21, 123–33

girlfriend Indira Pierce, and children of, 29, 35, 36, 37, 38–39, 40, 42, 325, 326

identifies D. Williams as Cox assailant, 240, 265, 276–77, 305

identifies white police officer at Cox beating, 265, 267–68

imprisonments of, 41–42, 325–26

interactions with M. Cox and C. Brown prior to Lyle Jackson shooing, 93–95

murder of Lyle Jackson and, 107–9

nickname “Smut,” 31, 35, 36

police failure to ask about his view of Cox beating, 188–89

rap lyrics by, 43–44, 326

shooting of, 285–86

testimony in Cox criminal case, 245–46

trial for murder, and acquittal of, 234–40, 243–45

Brown, Robert IV (son of Smut Brown), 42

Brown, Shanae (daughter of Smut Brown), 40, 41

Bulger, James J. “Whitey,” 47

Bullard, Charles (security guard), 115, 130

Burgio, Jimmy (police officer), 104, 154, 255

arrest claims made by, 152

brutality complaint against, 272–73

comments on Mike Cox beating by, 154, 161, 190

Cox civil suit against, 272, 294, 296, 299, 300, 306, 307–8, 310, 311, 312–13, 314, 315, 316, 318, 322

encounter with K. Conley following Conley’s trial, 273–75

Fifth Amendment invoked by, 218

fired from Boston Police Department, 323–24

Internal Affairs interview of, 179, 199

L. Jackson shooting, police chase, and response of, 110, 114, 118, 119, 122, 123, 124, 129, 145, 149

placed on leave, 289

report about Cox beating by, 163

reputation of, as abusive, 100–101, 272–23

Smut Brown murder trial and, 239

Suffolk County criminal investigation of Cox beating and, 205, 207, 218

targeted as culpable in Cox beating, 218, 241–42, 251, 270, 272, 312–13, 316

Cahners, Norman and Helene, 11–12, 17

Caisey, Donald (police officer)

comments about Cox by, 180

Cox civil suit trial and, 300

L. Jackson shooting, police chase, and response of, 109–10, 126, 141–42

report on Mike Cox’s injuries written by, 146, 151–55

work in anti-gang unit, 27, 95, 99, 101

Caputo, Mike, 52, 54

Castlegate Street gang, 11, 43, 70, 71

Castro v. Beecher
, 79, 80

Catholic Youth Organization (CYO), South Boston, 53, 54, 58

Chapman, Tracy, 20

Charlestown neighborhood, racketeering case, 201, 233

Cianci, Vincent “Buddy” (mayor), 167

civil rights movement

recruitment and hiring of police in Boston and, 78–79

school desegregation and, 11, 16, 35, 56–57

Clark, Alton, 237

Cleaver, Eldridge, 260

code of silence, police.
See
blue wall (code of silence)

Conley, Cheryl (sister of Kenny Conley), 48, 61, 254

Conley, Ken (father of Kenny Conley), 48, 55

Conley, Kenneth M. “Kenny” (police officer), 45–63, 74

arrest of Smut Brown by, 132–33, 147, 148, 152, 252

attorney Willie Davis hired to defend, in perjury trial, 260–63

boyhood friends of, 52–54

Cox civil suit against, 256, 272, 294–95, 296, 308–10, 313, 315, 317, 319, 322–23

early life and family of, 47–55

education of, 56–59

encounter with J. Burgio following perjury trial, 273–75

federal investigation of Cox beating, and FBI interviews of, 246–47, 248, 249–50

found guilty of perjury and sentenced, 270–71, 289

fund raiser for, 253–56, 280

grand jury testimony, 251–53

joins police department, 59–60

Internal Affairs interview of, on Cox beating, 181–84, 220, 250

L. Jackson shooting, police chase and response of, 110–11, 115–16, 119–20, 123, 127, 129, 132–33, 135–36

mother’s death, 62

perjury and obstruction of justice indictments made against, 248–49, 253

perjury conviction of, overturned, 326–28

perjury trial of, 263–71

prosecutor T. Merritt sets perjury trap for, 250–53

support for M. Cox by, 280–81

targeted by investigator, as being witness to beating, 243

testimony at Cox civil suit trial by, 308–10

tunnel (inattentive) vision in, 132, 183, 261–63, 309, 317

update on, 357–58

work on Anti-Crime Unit, and Cox beating incident, 45–47, 60, 62–63, 105

Conley, Kristine (sister of Kenny Conley), 48, 49, 51, 54, 55, 61, 254, 267, 271

Conley, Maureen “Moesie” (mother of Kenny Conley, 48, 49, 55

death of, 61

Conley, Russ (uncle of Kenny Conley), 47–48

Conway’s (bar), Smut Brown and friends visit, 106–7

Corbett gang, 11

Cortee’s (club)

M. Cox and C. Jones anti-gang work at, 7–11, 26–28, 93

gunfire at, 99, 103

Hip-Hop Night at, 10–11, 42, 93, 95, 97–98

Smut Brown and friends at, 29–31, 42–43, 93, 98–99

Cox, Barbara (sister of Mike Cox), 14

Cox, Bertha (mother of Mike Cox), 2–4, 11, 12

Cox, Cora (sister of Mike Cox), 14, 91