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Two Black men have received a formal apology from the mayor of Boston decades after being wrongfully arrested on charges of killing a white woman. […]
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is expected to issue a formal apology to two men wrongfully arrested in 1989 by police investigating the killing of Carol Stuart, a case that fanned racial tensions in the city.
Alan Swanson and Willie Bennett were wrongly named as suspects in the Oct. 23, 1989, death of Carol Stuart.
Alan Swanson and Willie Bennett were accused and arrested for the 1989 shooting of a Boston white woman.
“What was done to you was unjust, unfair, racist and wrong and this apology is long overdue,” Wu said.