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A former Massachusetts police officer accused of beating a man who was in custody will face a criminal charge after a court official ruled there was probable cause for the case to move forward.
Lynn police officer to face charges next month in connection with alleged beating of Black man in holding cell By Thomas Grillo Globe Correspondent,Updated February 26, 2021, 7:31 p.m. Email to a Friend Share Embed At the Lynn police station, Victor White refused to take off a medical mask, and former officer Matthew Coppinger responded by punching White. A former Lynn police officer will face charges in court next month for the alleged June assault on a Black man in custody after a clerk magistrate ruled Friday there was probable cause for the case to move forward. Matthew Coppinger, who is...
A clerk magistrate ruled on Friday that a former Lynn police officer will face criminal charges next month for allegedly assaulting a Black man in custody last June. Matthew Coppinger, 35, is accused of assaulting Victor White, who was arrested on his front stoop last June after officers were called for a noise complaint and found him and two friends hanging out. The assistant clerk magistrate, Paul Burns, reviewed 90 seconds of silent video footage from a police holding cell that Coppinger and White were in, ruling that Coppinger will be tried on assault and battery charges. The video showe...
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Last Sunday, January 31, marked the 100th anniversary of an incident at Mallow Railway Station that led to the deaths of three innocent railway workers, the single loss of life among railway workers during the War of Independence and Civil War. The incident, known simply as 'The Mallow Shootings', was outlined in short video posted on YouTube presented by rail historian Peter Rigney of the Irish Railway Records Society. He explained how on the evening of January 31, 1921 RIC district inspector Captain William H King was walking near Mallow Railway Station, (where the Cork County Council offic...