Rioters, Four Officers Injured, 13 Arrested
"They're feral Jim," Bones explained.
Posted on 10/13/2025 9:01:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In the concrete canyons of America’s cities, there’s an ancient tactic as old as warfare itself: the ambush. Draw your enemy into unfamiliar terrain, seal off their escape routes, and strike when they’re most vulnerable. It’s a strategy perfected by guerrilla fighters from the jungles of Vietnam to the mountains of Afghanistan. But last Tuesday night, this battlefield technique wasn’t deployed in some distant war zone—it was used against American police officers on the streets of Boston.
The date was no coincidence. October 7th marked two years since Hamas terrorists slaughtered 1,200 Israeli civilians, and pro-Palestinian demonstrators had gathered on Boston Common to commemorate the anniversary. What started as another supposed “peaceful protest” organized by Students for Justice in Palestine would soon reveal its true nature. The promotional materials should have been the first warning sign—posters featuring quotes from Hamas spokespeople alongside images of burning police cruisers. This wasn’t about peace. It never was.
As evening fell, the demonstration began moving from the Common toward Tremont and Winter streets. Officers on scene were trying to respond to an unrelated emergency call when protesters deliberately blocked the intersection, refusing to move even for emergency vehicles. What happened next wasn’t spontaneous violence or heated emotions boiling over. According to Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association President Larry Calderone, it was a calculated trap.
Officers found themselves surrounded as protesters blocked their cruisers from both ends of the street. The trap had been sprung.
From Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association President Larry Calderone (via Fox News):
The officers were lured into what we’re classifying as a gauntlet, where the officers entered the intersection and cars blocked it off, not allowing the officer to escape the path and the torment that they were about to unleash on the officer.
The “torment” Calderone described was brutal. Protesters kicked police cruiser doors, ripped equipment from officers’ bodies, and launched direct physical assaults. One officer was struck in the face with such force that his nose was broken, requiring reconstructive surgery. Three other officers suffered injuries as smoke devices and flares filled the air, creating chaos and confusion. These weren’t protesters—they were combatants executing a military-style ambush against those sworn to protect and serve.
Thirteen arrests were made that night, and prosecutors later upgraded charges to include felony “promotion of anarchy” after reviewing the Hamas-glorifying promotional materials. The suspects ranged from 19 to 28 years old—young radicals from comfortable Massachusetts suburbs like Cambridge, Medford, and Watertown (yes, really, from comfortable Somerville) who apparently view attacking police as some form of twisted solidarity with Gaza.
One suspect, 21-year-old Roder Atwood, was specifically charged with assault and battery on a police officer for allegedly breaking the officer’s nose. After their court appearances, supporters tried to block news cameras—can you believe it?—apparently understanding that their actions might not look so heroic in the light of day.
Here’s what disturbs me: Mayor Michelle Wu offered a pathetically tepid response, mumbling about the “right to peacefully protest” before adding obligatory condemnation. This is the same weak leadership that left officers outnumbered and understaffed for an event where the promotional materials literally advertised violence. Just days earlier, another police cruiser had been torched in what officials called a “staged attack.” The pattern is clear, but Democrat city leaders refuse to see it—or do they just not care?
President Trump has been working toward actual Middle East peace, even discussing possibilities that could benefit Palestinians. But these extremists don’t want peace—they never did. They want revolution, and they’re willing to assault American police officers to get it. They wrap themselves in the Palestinian flag while employing tactics that would make Hamas proud, attacking the very people who keep our communities safe. What exactly will make these people happy? Nothing, apparently.
Thank God we finally have a president who stands with our men and women in blue. Trump understands what these local Democrats refuse to acknowledge: when you abandon law enforcement, you abandon civilization itself. These officers went to work that night to protect and serve, only to be lured into a carefully planned ambush by radicals who view them as the enemy.
Let me be clear: The message from Boston’s police union president was crystal clear—”Don’t do it, don’t come here. We don’t want them here.” After what happened in that intersection—officers trapped, surrounded, and brutalized while trying to help others—who could blame him? Our police deserve better than being hunted on American streets by extremists who glorify terrorism.
They deserve leaders who will defend them, not make excuses for their attackers. Most of all, they deserve a nation—our nation—that recognizes the thin blue line for what it is: the only thing standing between order and chaos.
This is what insurrection really looks like.
And yet, The mayor won’t condemn it, and Antifa does not exist.
Mayor Mouse to the rescue.
- Tony Soprano
Mostly peaceful gauntlet.
Too bad police didn’t have guns.
The tactic has now been tried and proven successful. It will be repeated in other cities and probably in Boston again until officers are killed and the ambushed police or ICE or National Guard open up and shoot a number of the enemy guerrillas. The Kent State killing of the four students who were actually threatening the lives of the soldiers brought the Vietnam riots to a halt.
This Saturday may be a time when We can “Back the Badge!”
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Situational Awarness Amigo!
Yes; very different from the ‘insurrectionists’ who walked peacefully between the ropes in Statuary Hall.
I remember a quote,”Peace in our time”...
We seem to be in the beginning of a revolution,a communist revolution !
Does no one want to admit it?
> “There is no such thing as the Mafia!!”
- Tony Soprano <
“There is no such thing as the Mafia!!”
- FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
I don’t know about Tony Soprano. But the mafia had something on probably-gay J. Edgar. That sure kept him quiet.
I was looking on Reddit for some answers about software. The lead story on the home page was a video of ICE arresting a violent illegal alien. Nearly every post called for the murder of ICE agents to “let them know how it feels.” Soon it won’t be talk and democrat party terrorists will start doing just that.
Yep, the only “insurrectionists” that day were Ray Epps and the other fedbois infiltrating the crowd, no matter what the lying media portrayed.
Does Boston PD not have pistols? They could also ram their way out of the ambush.
“Boston Police Officers Lured Into ‘Gauntlet’ Attack by Pro-Palestinian Rioters...”
No one accuses Bostonians of being smart.
Wu swells with pride.
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