Demonstrators were rallying for change Thursday outside the Massachusetts State House, calling for accountability amongst state leadership. Supporters of Karen Read were standing on the state house steps, along with demonstrators involving other high-profile cases like Enrique Delgado-Garcia, Sandra Birchmore and Juston Root. Read supporters say changes are needed within the state police, Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office and...

A vigil will be held Wednesday in Brookline, Massachusetts, for a Mattapan man who was shot and killed by police four years ago. Juston Root, 41, led police on a chase on Feb. 7, 2020, that started at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and ended in a violent crash in Brookline, Boston police said. Officers thought Root had a…

An investigation released Monday by the Suffolk District Attorney’s Office says that two Boston police officers who fired 15 gunshots at a suspect armed with a replica BB gun outside of Brigham and Women’s Hospital three years ago should not face criminal charges. Forty-one-year-old Juston Root was shot by police after threatening security guards at the hospital on Feb. 7,…

Activists and relatives of people shot by police in Massachusetts held a rally Wednesday at the State House to call for racial justice and for Gov. Charlie Baker to reopen police shooting cases. The event, which began at 5 p.m., came after relatives of loved ones killed by police held a press conference last week to call on Charlie Baker…

Camera footage released of a February incident in which Juston Root was fatally shot by police reportedly contradicts an official report.

Police body camera video of a February incident where police shot and killed a man in Brookline following a chase that started outside Brigham and Women’s Hospital appears to contradict the district attorney’s report on the incident, the Boston Globe is reporting. The footage, obtained by the Globe following a records request, shows no sign that any of the...