Slay-case juror threatened by pair of thugs

From the right-wing rag, Boston Herald:

By Michele McPhee/ The Beat
Boston Herald Police Bureau Chief
Monday, March 12, 2007 - Updated: 12:32 AM EST

A juror in a notorious gang-related homicide case was followed home from the Suffolk Superior courthouse last week and threatened by two men, the Herald has learned.

“We know where you live. We know where your daughter goes to school,” the thugs allegedly snarled at the juror.
The chilling report is a dramatic new low in the stop-snitching culture that has had the city in a stranglehold for years.

The juror, who lives in Dorchester, was allegedly threatened on the same day he heard arguments in the trial of reputed gangbangers and accused killers Ivan Hodge and O’Neill Francis. The defendants, both 20, are accused of the March 2005 execution of 17-year-old Tacary Jones, who was shot dead after he boarded a crowded MBTA #19 bus on Columbia Road in Dorchester.


They have been identified by prosecutors as members of a crew of thugs that call themselves the Crown Path gang. Days after Jones was murdered, the words “Crips Die” was spray painted in front of his mother’s Dorchester home.

More:
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=187904

...it is not even news.


As long as people continue to revere the 'thug' culture and protect them with silence, this will continue to be the rule (witness intimidation and such) and not the exception. It is easy for me to say this from the protected suburb that I live in, but that does not mean that it is not true.

Guess there wasn't room left to cover The Pearl Harbor Day Massacre Scandal... or PlameGate.

Sigh.