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June 2, 2020 Quincy Black Lives Matter vigil
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The Eastern Nazarene College Black Student Union continues to press Quincy Mayor Tom Koch and various other Quincy officials for comment about people of color who have been killed nationwide at the hands of police officers  under questionable circumstances.

That and a response to the students’ calls for reform of local policing practices.

While – admittedly – in some other communities across the country protests have run amok, the Eastern Nazarene students and their supporters have gone three for three organizing respectful and civil protest events in recent months.

All they ask is a statement that Black Lives Matter
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And this evening starting at 5:30 PM at the track at Faxon Field, the students will resume their understandable calls for change.

While several city council members have stood in solidarity with #Quincy4BlackLives, along with a number of local clergy as well as Mayor Koch’s favorite sister Sister Olga, Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch, along with his all but white male key senior members of his maladministration as well as the super majority of white males police force led by surely but coincidentally one of mayor’s brothers in law Police Chief Paul “The Beav” Keenan have all but failed to duly respond to the entirely reasonable and peaceful asks by the Eastern Nazarene College Black Student Union and their supporters.

Mayor Koch’s expansive and expensive imperial suite in City Hall
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In fact, vertically challenged Mayor Koch instead promulgated at least arguably verging on hate speech in advance of the students first protest rally from the safety of his imperial, if not also imperious, mayoral office suite, only to later have to walk back things given proper as well as well-deserved formal rebuke of his arguable semantic dog whistling.

Even so, walk back notwithstanding, Mayor Koch subsequently rolled out a phalanx of barricades to protect his beloved KIm Jung Koch Plaza in front of City Hall as well as surely approved the assignment of arguably as many police officers as attendees at the students’ entirely peaceful third and family-friendly Fourth of July weekend Chalk for Justice event.

Peaceful protesters walled off on 4th of July eve
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And now the peacefully protesting students from Eastern Nazarene College look to be hitting for the cycle with yet another peaceful protest event.

That and all but assuredly are already planning to organize yet another peaceful protest if there is yet again no response to their understandable calls for responses.

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