Massachusetts Rep. Katherine Clark’s daughter was arraigned Monday in Boston on fees that embrace assault and battery on a police officer after a violent weekend protest.
Riley Dowell, 23, was allegedly vandalizing a bandstand on the Boston Widespread Saturday with anti-police slogans “NO COP CITY” and “ACAB” — an acronym for “all cops are bastards” — when she flailed her arms and hit an officer making an attempt to arrest her, a prosecutor stated Monday.
Through the arrest of Dowell, who’s non-binary and was recognized in police stories by her start title Jared Dowell, “a gaggle of about 20 protesters started to encompass officers whereas screaming profanities although megaphones on the general public avenue inflicting visitors to return to a standstill,” a press release from Boston police stated.
“Whereas interfering with the arrest of Jared Dowell, an officer was hit within the face and may very well be seen bleeding from the nostril and mouth,” the assertion added.
Dowell has been charged with assault and battery on a police officer, vandalizing property, tagging property, vandalizing a historic marker/monument, and resisting arrest. Authorities additionally found a can of spray paint in her backpack and noticed paint on her arms and jacket after her arrest, in line with prosecutors.
Dowell has pleaded not responsible and was let out on $500 bail.
Her mom, the Home Democratic whip, tweeted about Dowell’s arrest Sunday.
“I like Riley, and this can be a very troublesome time within the cycle of pleasure and ache in parenting,” Clark tweeted over the weekend. “This shall be evaluated by the authorized system, and I’m assured in that course of.”
Dowell has one other courtroom date on April 19.
The Boston protest was reportedly performed in a present of solidarity with demonstrators in Atlanta who’re protesting a deliberate $90 million, 85-acre legislation enforcement coaching facility derided as “Cop Metropolis” by the activists.
Final week, protester Manuel Esteban Paez Teran, 26, was shot and killed by police after he allegedly opened hearth and injured an officer on the web site of a deliberate Atlanta-area public security coaching heart. His dying sparked a wave of protests over the weekend.
