Posted on 06/11/2020 4:52:26 PM PDT by billorites
Berklee College of Music says it is “deeply sorry” for allowing Boston police officers to use the school’s restrooms, following the downtown protests on May 31 in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.
And the school says it will not happen again.
In a joint statement Wednesday night, Berklee President Roger Brown, chief financial officer Mac Hisey, and public safety chief David Ransom said the college had heard expressions of anger and betrayal from their community, after giving Boston police officers, who were staged at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Boylston Street, access to the Back Bay school’s restrooms.
“Boston Police of course have jurisdiction over the roads and other public spaces around our campus, but not inside our buildings,” Berklee officials said. (Like many colleges, Berklee has its own public safety department.)
“The decision to allow them into our facilities was ours,” the statement continued. “This was not a formal decision by the institution, but an informal one, made on the spot.”
Brown, Hisey, and Ransom added that they had heard “hurt and anger” from the community in response to the decision, especially at a time when their facilities remain closed for students and other members of the public due to the pandemic.
The Berklee Public Safety Department had released a previous statement Sunday clarifying that the school’s facilities were not being used to house or stage Boston police activity. However, the disclosure that they allowed officers inside to use the restrooms was met with accusations that the school was providing “special treatment.”
“Are you allowing Berklee protestors to use the bathrooms?” one commenter asked.
A petition to ban Boston Police from Berklee facilities also garnered 500 supporters this week.
Allowing police officers into the space was in no way meant to undermine Berklee’s support...
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Who writes these headlines? Have to read times to make out what the h*** they’re talking about.
What do we want?? Segregation!!! When do we want it!!! NOW!!!
When you gotta go, I guess as a cop you don’t go there.
When you gotta go you gotta go especially if you are told. you gotta go
Next time there'S a crime in progress on your property (perhaps a crime against a transgender)...or a fire:
The security guy said that he doesn't disagree with what I said and he said that the order to deny the police came from "all the way up".
I’m going
This is 911. State your name, location and your problem.
This is Berklee College of Music, and big black guys in black clothes are breaking our windows busting our doors in.
We need help!
This is 911 and your location is now a no go location for anyone in our police force as per your instructions.
Please call your own public safety department people and have a really nice day/life.
Good bye!
Could always piss and crap in their bushes.
The next time there is an “active shooter” alert at the school, let their “security” people handle it. NOT!
Boston schools, little centers of cowardice, political correctness and communism. No wonder our kids are psychopaths.
Fine, BPD should say they will no longer respond to any calls or incidents on said campus.
“public safety chief David Ransom...”
You just can’t make this stuff up...
Demand they remove all federal funding
berklee College of Music says it is “deeply sorry” for allowing Boston police officers to use the school’s restrooms..
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Last week I had a new kitchen sink installed. The
plumber took a dump in my bathroom. How rude.
It didn’t smell as bad as when a Montgomery Wards deliveryman dropped off our new stove. He had diarrhea and said he knew our dad,so he ran into our bathroom. He dumped a load on us and an epic smell. (His son was in my 5th grade class. I never mentioned it, because my dad gets the s.hit.s too)
That right there is a win-win!
The College of Music is so valuable to our society. What will the soy boys and girls do?
Work at Starbucks with massive debt for life?
Staffed with the finest social workers and mediators, no doubt.
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