If you mean the governor, Baker is a
Massachusetts Republican. Known elsewhere as a Democrat.
While I am not a fan of Charlie "Parker" (as Joe Biden called him, and Howie Carr presists on calling him) at least when BLM had a rally in Boston, Parker called out 1000 National Guardsmen, and had them stationed all round Boston, concentrated around the statehouse, and the demonstration was, actually, "peaceful", and the level of peacefulness never "intensified".