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Demonstrators from the Mass. Action Against Police Brutality rally march along Seaver Street in Boston on Tuesday night. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) Several hundred people gathered in Franklin Park to mark the anniversary of the killing of George Floyd — and to call for local officials to do more to combat police brutality. Since Floyd's death last year, his killer, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, was found guilty of murder. Across the country, government officials, businesses and schools have promised reforms to fight racism, increase equity and hold perpetrators of racial violen...

In early 2020, Juston Root’s condition was deteriorating. Diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder as a young adult, the 41-year-old wasn’t taking his medicine, and those around him were concerned. His family felt that he should be civilly committed. His psychiatrist described him as “actively psychotic with poor self care,” according to a Jan. 6, 2020 evaluation. “He is not at acute risk and cannot be hospitalized against his will at this time but given his history we believe hospitalization is very likely.” On a brisk, damp morning one month later, Root drove himself to Brigham a...

On MLK holiday in Boston, renewed calls for defending civil rights By Jeremy C. Fox and John Hilliard Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff,Updated January 18, 2021, 7:22 p.m. Email to a Friend Darrell Jones, left, and Sean Ellis, who both served time after being wrongly convicted for murder, stood next to Monica Cannon Grant, founder of Violence In Boston, as they spoke to a crowd who gathered on MLK Day outside of Madison Park Vocational High School.Erin Clark / Globe Staff Amid a pandemic and a national reckoning on race, the rise of white supremacy and the repercussions from a historic at...

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