Leaders in South Boston are working with the MBTA to not have one other St. Patrick’s Day parade just like the one final 12 months spoiled by a neo-Nazi demonstration.
“It is important to be proactive to ensure the parade is safe and inclusive for everyone,” stated state Sen. Nick Collins of South Boston, in a press release. “Those violating the law by defacing public property to spread their hateful message should be held accountable.”
Collins joins Congressman Stephen Lynch, state Rep. David Biele, City Council President Ed Flynn and Councilor Michael Flaherty in reaching out to MBTA Transit Police Chief Kenneth Green to prepare a planning session to stop hate teams from concentrating on the March 19 parade, in line with a press release. The assertion says there was such a gathering forward of final 12 months’s occasion as nicely.
“The Transit Police is committed to ensuring all individuals coming into the St. Patricks’ Day Parade via the MBTA feel safe and are free from any form of intimidation and harassment,” Transit Police Superintendent Richard Sullivan, the company’s chief spokesman, stated in a press release.
“We are grateful for the long standing collaborative relationship we share with the electeds who represent the South Boston community and we look forward to working with them. The TPD will have an enhanced security plan surrounding this family-oriented event honoring tradition and service,” he continued.
Last 12 months, members of the group Nationalist Social Club, also referred to as NSC-131, arrange alongside the parade route in face masks, sporting matching outfits of khaki pants and inexperienced hooded sweatshirts, and unfurled a banner that stated “Keep Boston Irish.”
The group has been recognized by the Anti-Defamation League as a New England-based neo-Nazi group with small chapters primarily based across the area.
The Evacuation Day and St. Patrick’s Day parade attracts round 1,000,000 folks yearly.
The identical group additionally protested at a public drag queen story hour for youngsters and households in Jamaica Plain, a scenario that compelled Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden to nominate two further prosecutors to the civil rights unit in July 2022.
That July additionally noticed the seemingly spontaneous demonstration downtown of about 100 marchers belonging to the white nationalist group the Patriot Front.
This is a growing story.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”