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The Charles Stuart Murder And the Racist Branding Boston Just Can't Seem to Shake

On October 28, Carol was buried in Medford. More than 800 people, including Boston Mayor Ray Flynn, Governor Michael Dukakis, and Cardinal Bernard Law, attended her funeral. Charles was still struggling to survive at Boston City Hospital, but a eulogy he wrote was read aloud during Carol service.

night sweet wife, my love. God has called you to His hands. Not to take you away from me or the happiness and gladness you brought me, but to bring you away from the cruelty and the violence that fills this world.

said that for us to truly believe, we must know that His will was done and that there was some right in this meanest of acts. In our souls, we must forgive this sinner because He would too.

The shock of the killing led to an immediate, furious reaction in and around Boston. Mayor Flynn vowed to find the shooter, and ordered Boston Police Commissioner Francis Roache to send every available officer into Mission Hill.

demand that the Boston Police Department continue to be extremely aggressive in cracking down on people who are using guns to kill innocent people It intolerable. We will use every lawful tool to support our police officers in cracking down on gun wielding criminals. (Boston Mayor Ray Flynn, October 24, 1989)

Not everyone was comfortable with the overwhelming sense of vengeance that swept the community. While a candlelight vigil in Carol honor took place on Mission Hill, community leaders quietly worried that white couples faced with crime were valued more by city leaders than the members of the city black community who had been victimized for years.

can help but wonder if what you watching is a class situation, that it all right for the poor to put up with an enormous amount of shootings and killings, but presumably, if you white, upper income and suburban, maybe that changes things. That sad. He pandora sale 2016 was black. He had a raspy voice. He was wearing a black sweatsuit with red stripes. He had tried to rob the couple, but then said 5 0, to Stuart and started firing, apparently convinced Charles was a cop.

police kept telling the kids that they have to come take a ride with them, said Leslie Harris, a public defender familiar with the case. way they pandora sale intimidated pandora charms outlet these kids into making statements, some heads should roll. (The Boston Globe, January 8, 1990)

Matthew said he finally came forward when he realized Charles had fingered Bennett for the crime, and that another man would be charged for the murder. (In 1991, Matthew pandora jewelry 70% off clearance Stuart, who helped his brother by taking a bag no questions asked and dumping it into a river, was found guilty of obstruction of justice and insurance fraud. John McMahon, the friend who helped Matthew dispose of the evidence, was also convicted on obstruction charges. In September 2011, Matthew Stuart died from a drug overdose in a Cambridge homeless shelter.)

In the days that followed, news surfaced that Charles had received life insurance payouts to the tune of $82,000. Charles took some of that money and bought a new car, which he promptly abandoned on the Tobin in early January. Accounts differed on whether there were more life insurance policies and when they were taken out.

The national media, which had so quickly seized on Stuart lies as proof of a national crime wave run amok, now returned to the story with a vengeance.

"A vicious round of finger pointing began here today as prosecutors, the police and pandora charms sale clearance the news media began tracing the trail of faulty assumptions, disregarded suspicions, blunders and perhaps even lies that put the wrong man at the center of one of the most highly publicized and emotion charged murder cases in the city history." (New York Times, January 6, 1990)

"The crime that riveted the nation nearly tore this town apart . the awful ruse has come unraveled, scarcely a soul in Boston does not feel victimized. Blacks are outraged that Charles Stuart's cynical cover story prompted a police hunt of almost unprecedented intensity and intrusiveness. Whites are pained to find themselves manipulated into apparent racism. And the integrated urban neighborhood where the murder took place feels stigmatized and violated, its name sullied beyond pandora charms outlet simple repair. Then there are the investigators and journalists so thoroughly taken in, now looking ridiculous. And the politicians who rushed to make the wounded husband a hero of their favorite causes. Now they look craven." (Knight Ridder Newspapers, January 21, 1990)

Suffolk County District Attorney Newman Flanagan continued to play both sides of the fence, insisting he never said Willie Bennett was a suspect, but that there were witnesses who claimed Bennett had committed the crime.

For the city black leaders, the backpedaling was too much to bear. They demanded not just apologies, but action to address the blind charge into their neighborhoods. Police had stormed Boston inner city, searching for a man who did not exist, and turning neighborhoods upside down in the process.

Mike Barnicle, then a Boston Globe columnist, excoriated black leaders for their anger, saying Bennett had been a logical choice as a suspect.

man pathetic, violent history is so much a part of the unyielding issues of race, crime and drugs tearing daily at America that it is amazing how any black minister or black politician could ever stand up and howl in public that his arrest was a product of police bigotry and a volley of discrimination aimed at all black residents of Boston. Where, after everything they had been told, would they expect the cops to start looking? The Myopia Hunt Club? (Mike Barnicle, The Boston Globe, January 7, 1990)

For Boston, the case joined a long line of incidents that showed the city's less than adept handle on race relations. Comparisons were soon drawn between Stuart and the Central Park jogger case in New York, in which five innocent black men were arrested and charged after a young white woman was assaulted.

A month after Charles Stuart hit the water, Jet Magazine called for a boycott of Boston newspapers "as a way to protest what many in the Black community considered unfair coverage." It pointed out what was obvious to anyone who had lived through Boston's busing crisis, which had been widely considered Stuart city's low point on race relations. The Charles Stuart saga meant that Boston could no longer pretend that busing had been a blip. Charles Stuart was strike two. And it was a big one.

That same month, the FBI began an inquiry into the actions taken by Boston police in the days following Charles Stuart 911 call. inquiry, initiated by United States Attorney Wayne Budd, will 'try to find out if there are grounds for us to start a full scale investigation, said Paul Cavanagh, a spokesman for the bureau. Mr. Cavanagh said that lawyers from the Justice Department civil rights division might take part and that the inquiry would focus on allegations that the police threatened witnesses to make a case against the black suspect, William Bennett, 39 years old. (New York Times, February 25, 1990)

In September 1990, less than a year after the murder of Carol and Christopher, Boston Celtics star Dee Brown and his fiancee were pulled over by Wellesley police. With guns drawn, officers ordered the pair to lie face down on the street. Brown, they said, matched pandora outlet the description of a man who had robbed a local bank earlier in the week. But the description was of a six foot two light skinned black man, and Brown, while of that approximate height, did not have light skin.

In 1995, Willie Bennett sued the Boston Police Department, accusing them of having violated his civil rights.

Jack Levin, director of Northeastern University's Brudnick Center on Violence, discussed the Charles Stuart legacy with The Boston Globe in 1999.

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