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BOSTON—Two Boston Police Department (BPD) officers testified yesterday that they witnessed their supervisor assault a Harvard undergraduate in a Brighton station house nearly two years...
Harrigan told jurors that he was outside the Brighton station house talking to another officer when he caught sight of Byrne and Trombly acting unusually through the station’s windows. He said that once he entered the guard room he saw Byrne swearing at Trombly as he grabbed him with one hand and hit him with the other. Harrigan said he did not see Trombly fight back...
...jury unanimously rejected Byrne’s claim that he had used reasonable force in the incident. Taking the stand Tuesday, Byrne admitted striking Trombly in the Brighton station house but said that he had reacted in a terrified split-second after seeing the student reach for what he thought was a weapon...
BOSTON—Testimony in the trial of a Boston Police Department (BPD) sergeant charged with violating the civil rights of a former Harvard student got underway yesterday, nearly two years after the then-undergraduate claimed the officer beat him at a Brighton station house...
...failed motion to allow an extended questionnaire to be filled out by potential jurors—covering issues such as police brutality—in addition to the standard juror-selection queries. Stearns simultaneously denied a defense motion to give jurors a guided in-person tour of the Brighton, Mass. district station house in which Trombly was allegedly beaten...