#QuincyCityCouncil Meeting Literally Misses A Bullet?

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Did last Monday’s Quincy City Council dodge a tragic disaster?

The basis for ex post facto concerns? 

The meeting took up but did not take a vote on calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

And as for the potential disaster?

The South Shore Broadsheet exclusively reported that a supporter of Israel who shot an Palestinian supporter during an altercation at a protest in Newton Thursday night was at Monday evening’s Quincy City Council meeting. 

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The man with the gun lives in Framingham and was arraigned in Newton District Court on various charges over the shooting.

While the indicted individual is not Jewish, he has a history of various at least disconcerting actions as regards Gaza-related protest events and such in the Greater Boston area tied to the ongoing fighting in Gaza.

As regards the council meeting, one can only imagine what could have happened given that by far a majority of at least fourteen police officers on hand for the meeting were instead outside City Hall monitoring those protesting the City Council’s approval of an 89% raise for Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch.

Outside of City Hall errantly monitoring peaceful and typically gray-haired pay raise protesters?
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A massive pay raises that was approved by the City Council along with a 50% raise for themselves in apparent disregard of a local ordinance that any such raise be put for vote by locals.

Needless to say, one can now only assume that the City Council and Mayor Koch will seek to obtain magnetometers or some other sort of weapons screening equipment as well as perhaps also seek to impose police pat-downs of anyone attending council meetings, if not also especially those heading into City Hall for whatever reason during business hours. 

That and perhaps also establish a 24/7/365 praetorian guard for Quincy’s peerless mayor.

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