Posted on 01/23/2023 12:27:13 AM PST by grundle
BOSTON (AP) — The daughter of U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark of Massachusetts was arrested during a protest Saturday night on Boston Common and later charged with assault after a police officer was injured.
In a statement on its website, the Boston Police Department said the 23-year-old was expected to be arraigned in Boston Municipal Court.
Clark, the House Democratic whip, said in a tweet that her daughter, Riley Dowell, had been arrested. “I love Riley, and this is a very difficult time in the cycle of joy and pain in parenting,” Clark wrote. “This will be evaluated by the legal system, and I am confident in that process.”
Clark has spoken publicly about the fears of her own nonbinary child amid bigotry targeting transgender people.
Police said officers responded to a report at the Parkman Bandstand Monument located within the Boston Common. They found a person, identified as Dowell, a resident of Melrose, defacing the monument with spray paint and anti-police phrases, according to police.
During the arrest, “a group of about 20 protesters began to surround officers while screaming profanities though megaphones on the public street causing traffic to come to a standstill,” police said, adding that “an officer was hit in the face and could be seen bleeding from the nose and mouth.”
Dowell was charged with assault by means of a dangerous weapon, destruction or injury of personal property, and damage of property by graffiti/tagging, police said.
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Two days of community service, a letter of apology and an hour on a naughty step. What he/she/it really needs is the same treatment that they are giving the 1/6 “insurrectionists”.
A certain senator murdered a woman and got off scot-free, so don’t expect any prison time here.
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The benefits of identifying as a trans includes NOT losing access to fully compatible sex partners when imprisoned.
Who’s going to pay for its lawyer. There was a time being call an “it” was an insult. I meant “it” in a good way.
A #ruling class kid gets special treatment, along with celebrities and sports figures.
OK...I’m completely confused.
Police say “Jared”...Mom says “Riley”.
Please tell me the coppers didn’t call the kid by his actual name. That would be racist.
Saw the picture of her “daughter”.
That’s a man baby! Yeah!
Me too, but probably won't. When arrested she asked the police officer, "Do you know who I am?" (Just kidding.)
Mom is a US democrat congresswoman and it’s Boston. I say the kid gets a slap on the wrist and that’s it. I guess we’ll see…
Yes, and that was Massachusetts too.
Riley is her son who is confused and obviously has no morals
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