TERRIBLE SITUATION GOING ON IN BOSTON
Richard B. Gagliano (Rick/Rich)
I am Living and Loving Life…Are You? Let’s engage! (Retired higher education professional)
In Boston, during a verbal dispute, an unarmed teenage boy (11 years old), Christopher Snider, was shot by a local resulting in local law enforcement to respond.
Word of the incident spread quickly, and a large number of locals gathered in the street where the incident had happened to protest almost immediately.
As the crowd grew, angry protesters shouted slogans; some business owners, fearing property damage, shut their doors. The local authorities called for uniformed backup; backup came, well-armed.
The assembly was deemed "unlawful," and the crowd was ordered to disperse. The protesters began to throw dirt clods (chunks of solid dirt) in response. In response, multiple uniformed law enforcers fired on the crowd.
The year was 1770, the authorities were British soldiers, the protest would later be called the Boston Massacre, and the first protester killed in that conflict was Crispus Attucks, a black man considered by many to be a heroic American patriot and the first casualty of the American Revolution.
If, while reading this story, you found yourself siding with the authorities and thinking that the protesters should have dispersed when ordered, and/or that the protesters armed with dirt and sticks deserved to be met with deadly force by armed law enforcement, be aware that you chose the side of the tyrant King George III, not the American patriots.
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I wonder if people in 1770 thought things would definitely be better 250 years later??
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FOR MORE INFORMATION:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crispus_Attucks
https://www.history.com/news/crispus-attucks-american-revolution-boston-massacre
https://www.masshist.org/database/viewer.php?item_id=318&pid=
** Note: information from this article was basically copied and pasted from various recent posts on social media.?