Loading disaster - pictures from the night Victoria Snelgrove was killed
I’ve only skimmed through parts of the report on how Emerson student Victoria Snelgrove was killed the night Boston Red Sox won the ALCS against New York Yankees, but it does seem to confirm that the police officer I photographed loading a pepper ball gun was also the one who later, accidentally, killed Ms. Snelgrove.
From what my quick read of the report can tell, a significant part of the problem was that police thought Lansdowne Street would be the easiest one to control, while it actually is pretty much a nightmare for everybody involved when it’s crowded. That’s not 20/20 hindsight, but an insight that led me to stand right next to the officers as they readied their guns.
UPDATE: There are some oddities in the report. First off, it’s just a huge scan of the report that’s been turned into a pdf file. Nice work, clowns. Second, a journalist with a few minutes to spare should ask about which police officers blocked off entrance from Kenmore Square to Brookline Avenue and when. The officers certainly weren’t doing immediately after the game. Third, I’m yet to find the report elaborate on the statement I alluded to above, that the police had decided to “give” Lansdowne Street to the crowd.
