BOSTON — Home Democratic Whip Katherine Clark’s daughter has been charged with assault after an altercation with a police officer who was making an attempt to arrest her for allegedly spray portray anti-cop messages on the Boston Frequent bandstand.
Riley Dowell, 23, was noticed defacing the bandstand with “NO COP CITY” and “ACAB” — shorthand for “all cops are bastards” — throughout a protest Saturday evening. Dowell is nonbinary and was recognized in a Sunday by her delivery identify.
Whereas she was being arrested, police stated roughly 20 protesters started to encompass officers, yelling profanities and disrupting visitors. Throughout that point, an officer was “hit within the face and may very well be seen bleeding from the nostril and mouth.”
Clark, the second-ranking Home Democrat, acknowledged the incident in a .
“Final evening, my daughter was arrested in Boston, Massachusetts. I really like Riley, and this can be a very troublesome time within the cycle of pleasure and ache in parenting,” Clark wrote. “This can be evaluated by the authorized system, and I'm assured in that course of.”
Dowell is predicted to be arraigned in Boston Municipal Courtroom on expenses of assault with a harmful weapon, destruction or harm of non-public property and harm of property by graffiti or tagging.