Please keep boosting this post! The family is less than $1K shy of their $7K goal to bury their beloved son/brother/cousin. The funeral is two days away. Can we help them reach their goal in time? Shacoby Kenny should still be alive. If he'd had $2500 to pay in bail he would be. #bospoli

This ruling vindicates what I’ve said all along: People have a right to know when police officers are accused of misconduct and to observe the working of our state’s judicial process. I hope David Sullivan will do the right thing and finally stop wasting public money opposing this basic principle.

The DA’s office finally released the names of officers accused of non-criminal misconduct in May 2024 after a court decision in a separate case but continued fighting disclosure of the criminally charged officers’ names. This ruling means the DA will have to release all the names.

After I filed suit, Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan used taxpayer money to hire a private law firm to fight against police transparency. Records show the firm charged taxpayers $16,870.84 for its work on the lawsuit as of November. Now the DA must pay my legal fees too.

I filed three administrative appeals, and the state’s supervisor of public records sided with me all three times—but the the Northwestern DA’s office still refused to disclose the names. That led me to file a lawsuit in June 2023.

The Northwestern DA’s office provided copies of the Brady disclosures but blacked out the names of the officers, whether they had been charged with crimes or faced internal investigations for alleged misconduct.

My records request sought the district attorney’s Brady disclosures about police officers. These documents—which are named after a 1963 US Supreme Court decision—are used by prosecutors to inform defendants in criminal cases about alleged misconduct by officers testifying against them.

Suffolk County Superior Court Justice Julie Green ruled that the officers’ names and case numbers cannot be redacted under a state law intended to protect people’s criminal records. The judge ordered the Northwestern DA’s office to produce unredacted records—and pay my legal fees.

NEW: A judge ruled Dec. 30 in my lawsuit that Northwestern DA David Sullivan’s office cannot block the public from seeing the names and case numbers of police officers who have been charged with crimes like possession of child pornography, assault and battery, and driving under the influence.

A man was killed four weeks ago in Boston's South Bay jail by COs paid with City and state tax dollars. Shacoby Kenny. Say his name, @wutrain.bsky.social. His loving mother will lay him to rest in two days. It will probably be a closed casket given what they did to him. #bospoli #ShutDownSouthBay

Four so far. 4 out of more than 60 (!) pretrial detainee eyewitnesses. It happened during evening rec. The whole unit saw what the COs did. They killed Shacoby Kenny: Sgt. Manolakis CO Pierre CO Diallo Lt. Lopez CO Nye CO Lewis-Rosario CO Antunes CO Taranti bit.ly/ShutDownSouthBay #bospoli

Not a home for all in your city's jail, who you have categorically ignored even after brave witnesses said that Shacoby Kenny, a 32-year-old pretrial detainee, was brutally beaten by COs until he died on 12/7. A month of silence is a month too long, @wutrain.bsky.social. #bospoli #ShutDownSouthBay

I want to like you, but i also want people not beaten to death in city pre-trial lockup

Four so far. 4 out of more than 60 (!) pretrial detainee eyewitnesses. It happened during evening rec. The whole unit saw what the COs did. They killed Shacoby Kenny: Sgt. Manolakis CO Pierre CO Diallo Lt. Lopez CO Nye CO Lewis-Rosario CO Antunes CO Taranti bit.ly/ShutDownSouthBay #bospoli

Not a home for all in your city's jail, who you have categorically ignored even after brave witnesses said that Shacoby Kenny, a 32-year-old pretrial detainee, was brutally beaten by COs until he died on 12/7. A month of silence is a month too long, @wutrain.bsky.social. #bospoli #ShutDownSouthBay

Four eyewitnesses told The Boston Globe that they saw Suffolk County corrections officers brutally beat 32-year-old Shacoby Kenny before he died. #Boston #Massachusetts

What will you stand for? Justice for Shacoby Kenny? Your constituents who remain stuck in the jail have been abandoned by your silence. Acknowledge this killing. It is the very least you can and must do. #mapoli #bospoli

Be a revolutionary, @wutrain.bsky.social. Acknowledge the killing of a 32-year-old man who struggled with mental health issues, who your Boston Police arrested, sending him to his death. He was killed by corrections officers in a Sherrif's Dept you have had a contract with for two years. #bospoli

Meet CO Tejan Lewis-Rosario In 2023, Lewis-Rosario graduated top of his class at the CO Training Academy On 9/5/24, he became eligible for MA State Police (www.mass.gov/doc/the-merg...) On 12/7/25, on the SERT team, he slammed Shacoby Kenny into a wall & beat him while he was restrained face down

Learn more about the #ShutDownSouthBay COs involved in the brutal killing of Shacoby Kenny Meet CO Thierno Diallo On 5/2/25, SCSD gave him the Drill Instructor Award & the Defensive Tactics Award On 12/7/25, he pummeled a mentally ill pretrial detainee & called the assault the "South Bay Special"

The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab

Learn more about the #ShutDownSouthBay COs involved in the brutal killing of Shacoby Kenny Meet CO Thierno Diallo On 5/2/25, SCSD gave him the Drill Instructor Award & the Defensive Tactics Award On 12/7/25, he pummeled a mentally ill pretrial detainee & called the assault the "South Bay Special"

all I’ve got is that the idea that you can commit any act of violence and say you were just executing a warrant is chilling and also common to US police

Truth really does matter

Missing? The killing of Shacoby Kenny inside Boston's South Bay jail by COs on 12/7. They surrounded him, pummeled him, knelt on his neck while he said "I can't breathe." His last words were say a prayer for me. BPD Homicide is still investigating, but that announcement is coming. #bospoli

Be a revolutionary, @wutrain.bsky.social. Acknowledge the killing of a 32-year-old man who struggled with mental health issues, who your Boston Police arrested, sending him to his death. He was killed by corrections officers in a Sherrif's Dept you have had a contract with for two years. #bospoli

"Miranda also noted an alarming cluster of deaths that occurred within the Department of Corrections this fall — six unexpected deaths at MCI-Norfolk and Souza-Baranowski, four of which were apparent suicides." Full letter: www.scribd.com/document/974... (h/t @courtwatchma.bsky.social) #FreeThemAll

Shoutout to Sen. Liz Miranda calling for an independent investigation into Shacoby Kenny's death. @massago.bsky.social should be leading here. It's a criminal AND civil rights pattern & practice issue. #bospoli #mapoli Read the letter to @massgovernor.bsky.social: www.scribd.com/document/974...

@massago.bsky.social - Please investigate and suspend the officers involved. @massgovernor.bsky.social Please overhaul the use of cash bail and pretrial release and detention in Massachusetts #mapoli We cannot let another life be stolen by a system that cages people without regard to their life.

PLS' Brutality Team is investigating the recent death of Shacoby Kenny at the South Bay House of Correction due to the reported circumstances surrounding his death. Incarceration must not be a death sentence. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

"Witnesses to the incident told the Globe that officers knelt on Kenny’s neck when he was on the ground and responded with excessive force, considering his mental health challenges were known throughout the unit." #mapoli #bospoli Shacoby Kenny. Say his name. Suspend the officers! #ShutDownSouthBay

Here's an anonymous message about a beating witnessed within the last week, by the same SERT team that escalated & participated in killing Shacoby Kenny on Dec. 7. During the assault of Kenny, one CO said "That's the South Bay Special." THEY'RE PROUD OF THE CULTURE OF VIOLENCE & IMPUNITY. #mapoli

People have been experiencing beatings on this unit by these same officers for months. One man on the unit was assaulted by CO Nye earlier *the same day* they killed Shacoby Kenny. He was handcuffed and in a wheelchair when Nye elbowed him in the face and busted his lip. bsky.app/profile/siob...

One of the most important pieces I've read this year. A lot of journalists tried to capture what it was like on the ground, as Chicagoans resisted an onslaught of federal agents attacking our neighbors, and @melissagiragrant.com pulled it off.

The Mass Bail Fund has been working tirelessly to free people before the holidays—including men from the 3-4 unit who witnessed the violent killing of Shacoby Kenny twenty days ago. They need your help! Please donate! #FreeThemAll #EveryDayEveryDollar #ShutDownSouthBay bit.ly/everydollarmbf!

The men have filed grievances & sought accountability for months. But jails are closed environments and getting access to transparency is a huge challenge. It should not take a death at the hands and knees of COs to bring scrutiny. There were 5 deaths in 6 months at this jail in 2021. #mapoli

And yes. Brave people who witnessed this haunting incident have been speaking out weeks before the tape was leaked. bsky.app/profile/cour...

We are not being hyperbolic. This was a modern-day lynching. #bospoli #mapoli #ShutDownSouthBay @mayorwu.boston.gov @wutrain.bsky.social @ruthzee.bsky.social - still crickets from you? After this haunting public account published in @bostonglobe.com?

A man was lynched on Sunday, 12/7 by COs at the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department and @wutrain.bsky.social has yet to make a statement 20 days later. @boston.gov is paying SCSD on a contract $150 per arrestee per day. Your taxpayer dollars are funding killers. Where are you, @mayorwu.boston.gov?

"The witnesses described corrections officers punching Kenny, kneeing him in the ribs, and kneeling on his neck when he was down on the ground." They killed him. AND THE COs HAVEN'T EVEN BEEN SUSPENDED PENDING THE OUTCOME OF THE INVESTIGATION. Shacoby Kenny. Say his name. #mapoli #bospoli

Tremendous reporting by @globespotlight.bsky.social, including many examples of cops lying about the existence of CIs to obtain search warrants, cops coercing female CIs into sexual and romantic relationships, and a 99.8% approval rate of search warrant applications by clerks... #mapoli #bospoli

Happy new year!

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A fascinating long read on the use of confidential informants in MA: "Nearly 9 of 10 drug raids are carried out on the word of confidential informants whose identities are known only to police. An overwhelming majority of the warrants – nearly 80% – hinge on the word of a single unnamed source"

Civil oversight of police is ineffectual by design. Pass it on. #bospoli #mapoli www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/31/m...

Photo by Apu Gomes, Getty Images. Los Angeles. July 2025.

Civil process money faces little to no state oversight, and while a portion of the fees sheriff’s offices collect is supposed to go to the state’s general fund, some sheriffs have a history of not making all their transfers.

This USA Today 2025 retrospective is how America will be remembered forever. www.usatoday.com/picture-gall...

Shame on us. Gratis link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/n...

“The rate of deaths per year in the correctional facilities has been on the rise even though the number of people being held in the prisons has declined, the records show. Last year the death count hit 144 — the highest number in the past seven years.”