I don’t normally write about small town board of health issues, but what’s happening in Worcester right now with their board of health is emblematic of a much larger fight that’s going on nationwide. In June the 5 member board of health voted to meet with the Worcester Police and issues a list of demands that have nothing to do with public health and everything to do with the BLM agenda of attacking and abolishing the police. Here was their insane list of demands.
- Acknowledge that racist/bigoted viewpoints and structural racism are pervasive in society and in all institutions, even among police departments.
- Adopt Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) and establish a statewide POST system to certify police officers and enable decertification of misconduct and abuse.
- Commit to urgently develop a comprehensive plan to identify (i.e. through previous actions, social media, background check etc.) those police officers that may possess racist/bigoted viewpoints.
- Once officers who may possess racist/bigoted views, commit to educate and retrain them and if necessary dismiss officers who posses those views.
- Be immediately and continuously transparent and fair in the investigation of police officers who have been accused of police misconduct/brutality.
- Commit to working with newly established community police misconduct review board. Establish a community police misconduct review board staffed by Worcester residents; the board must include people of color, members of the LGBTQ community, youth, low-income people, the homeless, and people who have experienced mental health issues and addiction
- Every police officer should be required to attend anti-racist/anti-bigoted workshops at least twice a year while also reading/viewing information that is geared toward improving and understanding communities.
- Commit to developing healthy and non-violent relationships with all members of the Black community and other members of communities that have a history of suffering police brutality and misconduct.
- Adopt clear and statutory limits on police use of force, including chokeholds and other tactics known to have deadly consequences. Require independent investigation of officer-related deaths. Require data collection and reporting on race regarding all arrests and police use of force by every department.
- Adopt Civil Service Exam review, establish guidelines and review for diversity plans and create a peace officer exam advisory board.
- Commit to providing training on and implementation of internal and external deescalation resources.
- Establish a consistent periodic schedule to update the members of the Board of Health and the Worcester Community on the progress of the efforts of the recommendations.
First of all, you’re the board of health. You make sure restaurants don’t give me E Coli. It’s not your job to fix racism in the police department, which doesn’t exist in the first place, so how bout just shut the fuck up and earn your stipend.
Secondly, “cops who may possess racist viewpoints” is an Orwellian form of censorship. Of course the woke committee will decide what racism is, which is everything they don’t agree with, and all cops who have the wrong opinions must commit to re-education in order to agree with everything the board says and thus be cleansed of racism.
Thirdly, citizen review boards for a job that the citizens have no training or experience in is just stupid. Do we have those for doctors, teachers, or even judges? Nope. They just want them for cops because these people hate cops.
Fourthly, if there was a review board, why would we put homeless people, children, the BLT-123 community, and junkies on it? I’m sure their grievances are legit.
Fifthly, the “anti-racism workshops” are just cash cows for frauds who make huge profit off of the racism-industrial complex. Never in the history of man kind has an anti-racism or diversity workshop helped stop the spread of racism. They are a joke and the people who teach them are unemployable in any other field.
Sixthly, the WPD already has a non-violent relationship with the black community. The only people they have to get “violent” with are criminals who resist arrest.
The Board has 5 members and the only one who didn’t vote for this is the chairman Edith Claros. David Fort and Chareese Allen are black. To prove their point they shared unverified anecdotes about how oppressed they are.
A member of the Board of Public Health in Worcester, David Fort, described a Worcester police officer pulling a gun on him when he was 14 years old while his three white friends watched.
Just last year, he said an officer told him “Get the hell out of here,” after he tried to report a truck, touting Confederate flags, rammed into several vehicles.
Poor bootleg Virgil here has a tall tale about having a gun pulled on him by a cop for absolutely no reason decades ago, and another made up story about a cop who told him to get the fuck out of his face after a rampaging maniac in a confederate flag truck went around playing bumper cars on public roads. Must be legit.
Also, he experienced racial profiling, but you’ll never understand it if you’re not black.
Now sing up for his friend’s taxpayer funded diversity training you big racist cop!
Another board member, Chareese Allen, described a situation where she was pulled over “for no reason, I had done nothing wrong.” When she looked in her side mirror, she saw the officer approach the car with a hand on their gun.
“I was terrified,” Allen said.
A driver who was pulled over felt they did nothing wrong. That’s literally never happened before. Must be racism.
Meanwhile, the two idiotic white board members who voted for this are too consumed with their own white guilt to think straight.
“I know that I am a person who has a lot to learn,” Frances Anthes said. “And i think that is probably true of our colleagues in the police department that many people who are either in good-intentioned or are confused about the history [of police] have a lot to learn as well.”
Any white person who says they have a “lot to learn” about how to be an “ally,” is someone that Monica Cannon-Grant knows she can milk reparations money out of without much effort.
The Worcester Police are not racist, and they don’t kill black people for sport. They have nothing to learn from a workshop taught by a race baiting hustler like Joyce McNickles.
The other yes vote was Reliant doctor Jerry Gurwitz.
Same guy who voted to raise the age of smoking to 21 because it would be “irresponsible” not to, because luckily smoking is only a danger to your health before you turn 21.
Hey doc, it’s your job to treat people who are sick, not to use the government as an agent to prevent people from making decisions that could result in them getting sick.
Of course the one dissenter happened to be a woman of color, so unlike the other two morons she doesn’t have to the affliction of white guilt.
Edith Claros sees this for exactly what it is – an attack on police, and something that has nothing to do with public health. For her crimes she is now being attacked as the rest of the board is voting for no confidence, and demanding she be removed for not using her position on a health board to attack the cops.
Four of the five members of the Board of Health voted “no confidence” in their chairperson Monday night, contending that Edith Claros has been openly hostile and disrespectful to them in that role. The no-confidence vote stems from a meeting last month when board members said that Claros cut off previous board discussions about police brutality and institutional racism in the Police Department, while allowing police officials to speak without interruption. At the board’s September meeting board member David Fort went so far as to ask Claros to step down as chair because of that. Claros, meanwhile, accused her colleagues of “ganging up” and “bullying” her just because she does not share their opinions on racism issues in the Police Department.
Before Monday night’s meeting, City Manager Edward M. Augustus Jr. sent a letter to all Board of Health members regarding the appointment of the chair. He said he was aware of the conflict that has surfaced on the Board of Health in recent months and respects the diversity of views and opinions among its members. But he added that the Board of Health does not have jurisdiction over Police Department policies and procedures.
Board member Chareese Allen made the motion for the no-confidence vote.
She said the board cannot do its job because of Claros’ “open hostility” to some members and her general “lack of respect to the board.” Allen added that she does not feel that Claros has been supportive of other board members. Fort, who seconded Allen’s motion, said Claros has been “openly hostile” to board discussions about police brutality, discrimination and institutional racism in the Police Department.
“A majority of board members don’t want you to continue as chair,” he told Claros. “You have been undercutting our efforts. We cannot move on to the issues we want to discuss with you as chair. We want to be able to discuss the issues of police brutality and institutional racism without drama, problems and issues. We need to have a chair that is supportive and fight these issues the way they need to be fought.”
Translation – she doesn’t agree with our obvious anti-police agenda, thinks we should stick to our job, sees through their grift, and therefore has to step down.
This was a good line:
With her actions, Fort contends, Claros, who is a Latina, has turned her back on the communities of color in Worcester that have traditionally had problems with the police.
Latinos are no longer sufficiently people of color, even though they make up the largest demographic of minorities in Worcester. And we all know that Latinos never get arrested by the cops, so they can’t relate to the struggles of Bootleg Virgil.
This was good too:
He said she has been more on the side of the police and politicians rather than the side of the community the board is supposed to serve.
Yea guys, the board of health is supposed to be on the side of the shitbags arrested by the police, not the police themselves. Some more homeless junkies on the review board should fix that.
While the Board of Health has spent much time on issues related to COVID-19, Fort said, there is also an epidemic of police brutality, institutional racism and discrimination and it is a serious issue for communities of color. He said it has led to a level of fear among Blacks and Latinos, adding that it is so serious that people from those communities “live in fear” of any interactions with police.
“New leadership is a good thing to move forward,” Fort said. “We need to have these discussions without drama.”
Anyone of any color who “lives in fear” of interacting with the police needs to seek psychological help. You have an irrational fear of something that has no less a chance of killing you than getting run over by a bus. Yet you don’t have nightmares about getting run over by a bus.
Anyway, you see this shit happening everywhere with boards of health. No one is more power hungry than they are right now thanks to commie cold and black lives matter, and the mere fact that they consider racism in the police to be a “public health” crisis shows you just how little they know about public health.
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42 Comment(s)
The board of health is worried about race baiting. Isn’t there something else going on now that should be taking up all of the board of health’s time? It will come to me. Ya right. COVID
The 4 members of the board are correct about institutionalized racism. The Democrat Party, with their invention of The Great Society, has done more damage to black families the slavery, The KKK, and even crack cocaine. Sadly most blacks don’t see this and let the masters fool them some more while continuing to live on the modern day plantation of ghetto. Obeying the master every election and voting D and praying for a crumb of the American Dream. Blacks are getting fucked. By Democrats.
Oh my. Dr Gurwitz is the nicest guy…this hurts me. Also, that picture is way outdated.
I’d love to see that 5-star panel of “experts” in action critiquing the Police force, as if a single thing they had to offer would amount to anything more than a pile of rat turds. Would the facility where they meet allow people living on the street to wash their ass in the public restroom before regularly scheduled meetings?
Board of Health has no authority when it comes to police matters.
Zero.
The Board of Health should concern themselves with public health issues instead of so-called social justice issues. Just more political nonsense being used to bring down Trump and our entire way of life. If they want to improve black lives, then do something about gangs, drugs, and the fact that a lot of women have multiple children that they cannot care for with multiple baby daddies that are worthless trash, many of whom belong in prison.
Geez TB. I can handle a typo here and there but this article is a disaster. Spell check is free, buddy.
The Board.of Health must go. The fears of many critics have been proven correct. Unelected and unnaccountable. The City Council is second fiddle. King, Russell, Toomey. Second fiddle.
If you walk in the a black or brown person’s shoes, your feet will stink.
Reasonable people need to speak up and pushback against all this lunacy. Cops cannot be the scapegoat for society’s ailments. It’s insane. The “epidemic” of police brutality does not exist. Focus on real health concerns like obesity, drug abuse, poverty, gun violence and the every growing disparity in education.
You are absolutely correct. Unfortunately, when someone speaks up, they are immediately labeled a racist by the radical left, who then will call the person’s employer and get him fired because most companies don’t want to deal with any type of negative press, even if it is unjustified.
What? No Kampuchean style re-education camps for those in need of true knowledge. Back to the drawing board fellas. Er ah its, thems, wees or whatever gender they “elect” today
I think the board of health is overlooking the biggest health problem in their community. As it is true that 13% of the population does 55% of the crime, black people are the #1 health risk to white people, a higher risk than corona and AIDS combined. I would like to ask the 4 board members, what are you doing to protect the health of white people (who a probably a minority population in Worcester)? Should we give training to blacks about how to not murder white people? I think you are racist if you don’t go along with that agenda.
The libs need to assign some of their own as ‘peace officers’. I like the idea. Send them into the most violent armed felon standoffs and let me know how they do. Looking forward to the results.
The Board Of Health is now The Thought Police. And they’re here to make sure cops don’t have too much to think. Brainwashing may sound clean… but it’s actually a dirty, disgusting, filthy habit. It kills more people than smoking. Some just haven’t been buried yet.
The guy in the suit looks like our flaming Town Manager in Danvers who ordered the thin blue line flags taken down. Turtleboy, why did you take that story off the site? Pressured?
So their issue is that the board of health chair wants to stick to actual health related issues, and they want to branch out? I bet they’re all democrats. Good luck with that cluster fuck of a police review board. Losers
racism IS a public health issue you twat.
All these white people trying to show the world” look at me I’m one of the the good ones”,feeling that they need to come to the rescue of black people,and not understand how racist that is,keep up the good work TB’
You’re not!
Ive never had a racist bone in my body or thought in my brain because I hate everyone equally with no discrimination! Well, unless I like you. It’s seldom that I like someone though so dont get your hope’s up!
I’ll tell ya this though, this shit is turning me into a racist. A racist upon white people.
You stupid lilly honkeys need to just sit down and shut the fuck up! No one asked you to interject yourself or your thoughts, political ideology nor opinions into anything! black people do not need you to speak for them or stick up for them. as a White dude who grew up in the hood, who still spends time there with friends that are not White. They all say the same thing, they hate white people like you, more so their own kind but equally as well white people, like you. they dont want or need anything from you and they want you to just shut the fuck up. I know lots of blacks and hispanics that did and will again vote for TRUMP. They are not buying your shit and are actually quite sick of it. So shut the fuck up HONKEY!
You only care about blacks and hispanics every 45 months. after the other three that make up the 48 it’s back to business as usual for you racist peices of HONKEY SHIT.
You want to defund the very people who you would call to save you if me and the boys did not take the better path in life. Show me how much you supposedly care about blacks by giving me your addresses. I’ll swing through with the whole crew and you can tell us all how much you care about blacks. while you’re also calling those cops you want to defend because the boys came into your neighborhood. You people make me fucking sick!
The rest of you need to smarten the fuck up and speak the fuck up! Who cares if these people call you a racist for speaking up. Just call them a racist and a nazi right back or punch them in the fucking mouth. They all walk around saying punch a nazi in the face. It’s only fitting!
O, so sorry, but there is literally no such thing as a nazi anymore! The nazi’s were defeated in 1945! if you spent as much time reading a fucking book, instead of virtual signaling for clout and likes on the anti social media’s, you would know this mannnn.
There is a thing called a neo‐nazi though. In case you didn’t know, neo-nazis all politically align and vote for demokkkrats and they all hate TRUMP. Do you even stormfront bro? You people all think you’re so smart, so articulate, so enlightened and so educated. You fucking know nothing and are not as smart, bright or articulate as you think you are. You’re all counterfeit 3 dollar bill’s and know jack shit about shit.
If you hate your self because you’re white, you have a mental illness. If your only recourse is to virtual signa as to try and make a black facebook friend, you have metal health issues. Of course you all have mental health issues. It’s always the libs and their kind advocating for mental health awareness. You know why you never hear conservatives advocating for mental health? Its because conservatives are normal people and the rest, well, the rest just are not!
Smarten the fuck up you bunch of clueless dinlo’s(Spelling stays)!!
You still owe me a slice.
You are a fucking race traitor uncle tom! You need white people to speak up for darkies like you!
You people are so fucking oppressed by the cops that you can’t breathe! When you can’t breathe you can’t speak and when you can’t speak you need someone to speak for you!
Sit down and do as you’re told!
Hahaha! Her husband tore me up years ago.
That fat lady must ha e a shitty dentist. Her teeth are gray like her mor Howard hair. What skeletons do these morons have in their closets. TB take em down
Imagine going up to a homeless person and asking them if they want to volunteer for a “police misconduct review board”
Eight primates were shot, two of them fatally Monday in Chicago.
A 25% kill ratio for boon on boon but remember its da popo dat be killin us dawg
In the day’s first reported fatal shooting a 21-year-old chimp was shot to death in the Edens Expressway on the Northwest Side.
Show the world how much black lives matter with over 3100 shootings and close to 600 kills.
Lets shoot for 1k boons.
Then we can play fantasy land and say white racist popo did this.
8 shootins’ ain’t jack you dum ass cracka. I’m da mutha fuckin’ maya up in here.
You need to keep my city name ouch ya mutha fuckin’ mouff.
This is Marty . I declared racism in Boston to be a health hazard.
If you comitt a crime, I will arrest you no matter what color you are
No more get out of jail free cards
Keep pushing TB. Make it hard for these leaders to capitulate to the mob.
Another board member, Chareese Allen, described a situation where she was pulled over “for no reason, I had done nothing wrong.” When she looked in her side mirror, she saw the officer approach the car with a hand on their gun
I’m an old white male. Every fucking time I’ve been pulled over the Officer has done this exact same thing. You know why! It’s standard procedure you dumb fuck. They’re trained to do this so they can protect themselves if someone pulls a gun and tries to kill them.
Fuck You Chareese. You’re not special and you haven’t been racially profiled you vile piece of filth.
Edith Claros may not be the hero that the other members of the BoH want…but she is the hero that the rest of the same people in the City of Worcester need.
Stay strong, Edith. Hold your ground.
It’s always a great idea to listen to and follow the demands of kids, the homeless and the mentally insane. Just look at all the examples where that worked out so well…….there aren’t any? Impossible. It’s such a great idea that it must’ve been thought of and actually done before. While we’re at it why don’t we include dogs and cats? They’re just as much a part of the disadvantaged community considering they have to shit outside and not in a toilet. This is so fucking retarded and so is any person that thinks this is a good idea.
“You see this shit happening everywhere with boards of health.” Wow, is this actually a thing now? Boards of health in towns injecting themselves into police matters? WTF?
Whatever happened to just shutting the fuck up and doing whatever the government tells you to do? I miss that. The libs that refuse to bow down to big government can fuck right off.
When idiots try to expand their authoritaaae!
Fuck them, if they have nothing better to do, then maybe it is time to defund them!
I live in worcester for the low cost of living.
If they cut the police budget I’m moving to Nashua.
Watch the city’s budget go to shit when everyone who pays taxes to the city (Which I do. I own a car and pay excise taxes and residential parking permits.)
Watch how quickly those few employable people in the city who make a bit more than minimum wage, pack their shit and go somewhere else.
These people like that the police keep them safe from violent gangs and drug addicts stealing their stuff out of their cars.
I’ll be right there with you. Cutting the police budget, lowering taxes, smaller government… I don’t want any of it.
Stay in your lane clowns.
Stop them now. Once they put the cops through the reeducation camps these commies want to create, they will come for us next.
Holy W.C. Fields face!!!