The Fence: A Police Cover-Up Along Boston's Racial Divide (55 page)

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Authors: Dick Lehr

Tags: #Fiction, #General, #Political Science, #Social Science, #Law Enforcement, #True Crime, #Criminology, #Ethnic Studies, #African Americans, #Police Misconduct, #African American Studies, #Police Brutality, #Boston (Mass.), #Discrimination & Race Relations, #African American Police

hired by Cox to file civil rights lawsuit, 223–24

preparations for trial made by, 275–78, 292

on Smut Brown’s role in Cox civil rights case, 286–87

Roache, Francis M., police commissioner, 59, 60, 67

Robinson, Fran (attorney), K.

Conley as client of, 291, 294

Cox civil suit trial and role of, 308–10, 311, 316

Robinson, Walter “Mitty,” police

corruption case involving, 217–18, 288

Rogoff, Jerome (psychiatrist), diagnosis of M. Cox with post-traumatic stress disorder, 195–96

Roman, Derek, 36

Roxbury neighborhood, Boston, 11–14, 68, 280

Cox family home in, 12–13

policing of, 81

Rule 301

on pursuit driving, 124–25

Ryan, Gary (police officer), 2

Cox civil suit trial and, 297, 299, 305

ice-slip explanation for Mike

Cox’s injuries from, 145–46, 147

immunity offered to, 219

Internal Affairs interview of, 181

L. Jackson shooting, police chase, and response of, 109, 114, 123, 126, 129, 143, 145

mistaken identification of, 152

report about Cox beating by, 163

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

St. Clair, James D., 65

St. Clair Commission, report on problems in Boston Police Department, 65–67

St. Mary’s School, Mike Cox as student at, 16–17, 56

Saunders, Will (police officer), 15, 26

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

Schwartz, Sharon (juror in Cox civil suit trial), 295, 302, 307, 317

Shannon, James M. (Massachusetts attorney general), 73

Sheketoff, Robert “Bob” (attorney), represents Smut Brown in trials, 235–40, 243–45, 266, 325

asks Smut Brown to testify in Cox case, 245–46, 287

suspects police cover up, 245

Simons, Daniel J., research on inattentional blindness, 261–63

Simpson, O. J., trial of, 176, 216

Sinsheimer, Robert S. (attorney)

Cox civil suit trial and role of, 293, 296–97, 300, 304, 305, 306–7, 312–14, 316, 319, 324

joins Cox civil rights suit team and prepares for trial, 275–78, 292

Skolnick, Jerome H., 197

Smith, John L., Jr., police beating of, 26, 72–77

South Boston “Southie,” 47–50, 280

desegregation of schools in, 56–57

gentrification of, 58

reputation for bigotry in, 251

Spelman College, 25, 80

Stern, Donald K. (U.S. attorney), 322

Stuart, Carol, murder of, 64–65, 185

Stuart, Charles, murder case involving, 64, 185

Suffolk County grand jury investigation of Cox beating, 188–89, 201–6, 213–16, 218–21, 223, 227–31, 233–34, 240, 271

Suffolk University, Kenny Conley at, 59

Swain, Charles D., family, 13, 14

Tango K-8, M. Cox’s and C. Jones’s call sign, 9

Teahan, Joe (police officer)

Cox civil suit trial and, 297, 299, 305

ice-slip explanation for Mike Cox’s injuries from, 145–46, 147

immunity offered to, 219

informs K. Cox of husband’s hospitalization, 1, 2

Internal Affairs interview of, 181

L. Jackson shooting, police

chase, and response of, 109–10, 114, 123, 126, 129, 143, 145

report about Cox beating by, 163

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

Terry v. Ohio
, police procedures and, 69

“testilying.”
See
police perjury

Thomas, Ike (police officer), work on anti-gang unit, 99, 104

handling of crime scene following Mike Cox beating, 145, 146, 147, 148, 155, 191

L. Jackson shooting, police chase, and response of, 109–10, 125, 141–43, 145

update on, 358

Tinsley, Ron “Boogie-Down,” 30, 42, 43, 95, 106, 107

arrest of, 143, 147, 151, 311, 323

at Cortee’s club, 98–99

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

murder of Lyle Jackson and, 107–9

murder trial, 234, 244

Toomey, Kevin (priest), 53, 54, 61

undercover police officer, definition of, 10

Use of Non-Lethal Force rule, Boston Police Commissioner’s, 191

Volpe, Justin (police officer), brutality case involving, 248

Waggett, Fred (police officer), 170

Walaikum’s Burger (restaurant), 95

get away of Smut Brown, Evans brothers and Tinsley from, following L. Jackson shooting, 113–15

meeting of gang rivals at, 103, 107–9

police response to shooting at, 109–13

shooting of Lyle Jackson at, 3, 99, 107–9, 344

Walker, Richie (police officer), 89–90, 99–100, 104–5, 111, 153

arrest credited to, 152, 238–39

K. Conley perjury trial and statements of, 264, 267, 327–28

Cox civil suit trial and, 297

Internal Affairs interview of, 180–81, 219

L. Jackson shooting, police chase, and response of, 120, 123, 129, 143, 147

report about Cox beating by, 163

Suffolk County investigation and interview of, 219

update on, 359

Washington, George, 49

Weld, Samuel, 13

Weld, Thomas, 12–13

Weld, Tuesday, 13

Weld, William F., 13, 185

Wellesley, Massachusetts, 35

Williams, Accelyne, botched drug raid and death of, 102–3, 167, 173, 200

Williams, David C. (police officer), 89–90, 101, 104, 255

abuse complaints against, 96–97, 190, 228

arrest claims made by, 152

comments made by, about M.

Cox’s beating, 154, 156, 161, 180, 214–15, 303, 305–6, 313

Cox civil suit against, 223, 272, 295, 296, 298, 300, 301, 311–12, 313, 314, 315, 316, 318, 322

encounters with M. Cox following beating, 209–12, 227–28, 258–59

fired, then reinstated in Boston Police Department, 323–24

grand jury testimony, 213–16

identified as assailant by Smut Brown, 239–40

Internal Affairs interview of, 179–80, 190, 199

L. Jackson shooting, police chase, and response of, 110, 114, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 129, 130, 143, 145, 149

placed on leave, 289

report about Cox beating by, 163

Suffolk County and Anti-Corruption Unit investigation of Cox beating and, 205, 207, 213–16, 220–21, 227, 228–29

targeted as culpable in Cox beating, 241–42, 251, 270, 313, 316

testimony in Smut Brown murder trial, 239

Williams, Mary H., 200

Winfield, Ronald P., diagnosis of

M. Cox with post-traumatic stress disorder, 278–80

Winthrop Street, 12, 15

Wise, Robert (attorney), 316, 319

Wooster School, Connecticut, Mike Cox as student at, 20–25

Young, William G. (judge)

decision in K. Conley case, 328

in M. Cox civil suit trial, 290–92, 294, 295–98, 304–5, 314–15

on lawyers as teachers, 295–96

splits Cox case into different trials, 291–92

Zobel, Judge, Brighton 13 case, 76, 77

About the Author

A professor of journalism at Boston University,
DICK LEHR
was a reporter for nearly two decades for the
Boston Globe,
where he won numerous journalism awards and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is the coauthor of the Edgar Award–winning
Black Mass,
the Edgar Award finalist
Judgment Ridge,
and
The Underboss.
While completing
The Fence,
he was a visiting journalist at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. He lives near Boston, Massachusetts, with his wife and four children.

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