The official MBTA Transit Police Twitter account had one thing to say in regards to the Suffolk District Attorney’s race in what the company’s spokesman calls an “inappropriate” use of the account.
“Bill, let’s keep it real… The Boston Globe defeated Arroyo not Hayden. Hayden is totally inept and lacks the integrity to serve as DA. Interestingly your paper NEVER challenged Hayden on his lying re: the Transit Police case. Hayden tried to dump the matter & got caught,” the MBTA Transit Police account wrote in a tweet timestamped 12:23 a.m. Wednesday.
The since-deleted tweet, a screenshot of which was revealed by the information weblog ResideBoston617, got here in response to a different tweet by Dorchester Reporter editor and writer Bill Forry that linked to an article from his publication on the outcomes of the DA race between winner Kevin Hayden and City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo.
MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo informed the Herald that the tweet “was an inappropriate and unintentional use of the police department’s official social media account, and it will not be repeated.”
MBTA Transit Police Supt. Richard Sullivan is that division’s media spokesman and all MBTA police communications are dealt with via him. The Herald has reached out to each Sullivan and Pesaturo to ask who authored the tweet in query, however hasn’t gotten a response to that query.
Sullivan and MBTA Transit Police Chief Kenneth Green didn’t instantly return emailed requests for remark.
“We believe the tweet in question was distasteful and inappropriate,” Cam Charbonnier, Hayden’s marketing campaign supervisor, informed the Herald, “and it would seem the MBTA police agreed with us in that assessment by how quickly they deleted it.”
The marketing campaign had been by all accounts a nasty one towards the tip, first with the “Transit Police case” talked about within the company’s deleted tweet, which happened when the Boston Globe revealed a narrative that raised questions on whether or not or not Hayden’s workplace was dropping the investigation into an off-duty MBTA officer who allegedly pointed his gun at a motorist after which — based on the Transit Police division itself, which sought prosecution — lined it up.
Hayden issued a press release that he was opening a grand jury investigation and that the case had remained “open and active” all alongside.
Then the Boston Globe revealed one other story that dug up previous sexual assault allegations in opposition to Arroyo that alleged assaults on two youngsters when he himself was in his late teenagers. Those complaints had been declared unfounded. Arroyo himself efficiently pushed to have the total paperwork launched, believing that the total story would vindicate him.
The Arroyo camp then pushed for an unbiased investigation into the leak of the previous allegations and introduced it will file an ethics grievance in opposition to Hayden, whose workplace they accused of taking part not directly with the leak.
The tales splintered the Boston political group with mudslinging throughout.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”