Morning Updates: Police chief defends officer videotaped with hands around suspect’s neck
Good morning, Boston. Police defended the officer seen in a video putting his hands around a suspect’s neck, home-buyers are worried the Green Line extension won’t come, and the rest of the news you need to know today.
Boston Police commissioner defends videotaped officer: “Police Commissioner William B. Evans acknowledged Tuesday that a videotaped incident showing an officer putting his hands on the neck of a handcuffed suspect might look ‘terrible,’ but he said the young man was not choked. ‘He wouldn’t go into the car and the officer involved was struggling,’ Evans said… The officer ‘put his hands around his neck trying to push him . . . back down in the car. There clearly was no real choking going on there.’’’ (The Boston Globe)
The turmoil in the Chinese economy spurs Boston real estate: “‘We’ve had people come in with a little more sense of urgency lately,’ said Sue Hawkes, whose firm, The Collaborative Cos., markets condominium developments in Boston that have attracted Chinese buyers. ‘They’re trying to beat the fall’ of China’s economy and stock market.’’ (The Boston Globe)
Home-buyers are worried about the Green Line extension: “The extension of the MBTA’s Green Line to Somerville and Medford was widely viewed as a sure thing — and many real estate decisions were made on that presumption. Property values and rents along the planned rail line jumped in anticipation. When word came this week that the project is in danger of being scaled back or even canceled because costs could be as much as $1 billion more than expected, it landed like a sucker punch for buyers and investors who bought into the excitement.’’ (The Boston Globe)
Trump ejects Hispanic journalist from press conference: “A journalist for the Spanish-language network Univision who asked Donald J. Trump about immigration was mocked by the candidate, then escorted out of a news conference here on Tuesday evening. Jorge Ramos, an anchor for Univision news shows based in Miami, stood and began asking a question just as Mr. Trump recognized another reporter. ‘Excuse me, sit down. You weren’t called,’ Mr. Trump told him. … ‘You haven’t been called, go back to Univision.’’’ (The New York Times)
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How Jimmy Carter came to be known as a “wimp’’: “In what he called an ‘in-house joke,’ [Boston Globe editor Kirk] Scharfenberg slapped a headline on the story that was not meant to be published: ‘Mush from the Wimp.’ That essentially called the content of [Carter’s] speech ‘mush’ and Carter a ‘wimp.’ Unfortunately for Scharfenberg, that joke headline was printed on 161,000 copies of the paper the next day.’’ (Boston.com)
The Goodbye: Before the Patriots played at Gillette Stadium.
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