FINALLY: Judge sets high bail in latest wave of Boston protest chaos arraignments.
Two more protesters charged in the outburst of violence during a pro-Palestine march and rally Tuesday have been held on $10,000 bail. A number of others were held on $7,500 and $5,000.
The high bail amounts are the latest as public officials respond to the chaotic protest Tuesday that left a Boston Police officer with a broken nose and likely in need of reconstructive surgery.
Osama El Khatib, 26, of Watertown and Styx Hatch, 19, of Boston were both held on $10,000 bail.
Members of the Boston Police Department made a show of support in the courtroom at Boston Municipal Court during Thursday’s arraignments.
Two other defendants were held on $7,5000 including: Atlanta Carrig-Braun, 24 of Boston; Haley Macintyre, 24, of Dorchester.
Held of $5,000 bail were Madeline Weikel, 27 of Watertown; Jacob Pettigrew, 22 of Malden, and Gabrielle Smith, 28 of Cambridge.
The charges stem from a pro-Palestinian protest on Tuesday that descended into chaos when police tried to clear Tremont Street in order to allow emergency vehicles to get through to a nearby call.
Hopefully they’ve got it all out of their systems: Trump has dealt a devastating blow to Israelophobia. “The disarming of Israel is a feverish obsession of the activist class, for they understand that in order for Israel to be replaced ‘from the river to the sea’, in order for this sinning settler-colonial nation to be scrubbed from humanity’s records, first its Jews must be denuded of all means of self-defence. They’re iffy about Trump’s plan for some one simple reason: it leaves the Jewish State intact and it demands the surrender of Hamas. It thwarts their dystopic dream of dragging the Middle East back to 1948, before the modern state of Israel existed. Everyone can now see that what falsely presented itself as a peace movement was in truth a ruthless campaign of delegitimation, demonisation and even destruction waged against the world’s only Jewish nation by our post-reason elites.”
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