The case has not raised issues of race, sex and class
The Boston Globe has a long article on two lesbian women who were attacked by “teenagers” after leaving a park in East Boston, where they had watched a 4th of July fireworks display in 2003. There’s barely a word in the article about the perpetrators, so I take it they aren’t lacrosse players from Duke University. The article’s bottom line is that the women got a $205,000 settlement last fall, apparently on the grounds that the agency policing the area should have realized that if you don’t have hordes of police at events in East Boston, somebody will almost die. Well, duh.
One of the victims needed 220 stitches according to the article. That’s some serious savagery.
