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...want to say we are very, very sorry I for what has happened," Mayor Raymond Flynn told the quiet widow, "and this is a small way of the city meeting its legal and moral obligation." In the tiny kitchen of her home in Boston's Roxbury ghetto, Patricia Bowden accepted the check for $843,498.37. Thus, in quite a different way from Miami, ended a case of police use of deadly force...
...January afternoon in 1975, while James Bowden was at his job cleaning floors at Boston City Hospital, a store in nearby Cambridge was robbed. Hours later, two Boston policemen spotted Bowden's parked car, which looked like the robbers' and had a similar license-plate number. The police waited, and when they saw Bowden get into the car, leaped out and shot him dead-within "three to five seconds," according to a reporter who was with the police. But the car was not the getaway car. Bowden had no criminal record...
...author sued and collected an award from the city; Mrs. Bowden has not, because Mayor Kevin White's administration refused to pay. But both finalists in Boston's mayoral election, on Nov. 15, have said that they will. That would seem to close the books. But, as O'Donnell notes, the policemen who killed Bowden, and those who attacked the author, are all still on Boston's deadly force...
...police officers killed James Bowden Jr., an unarmed man with no criminal record who was returning from a nightly visit to his mother's apartment. The cops said they thought Bowden was driving a car reported earlier that day in connection with an armed holdup in Cambridge (they were wrong). The officers blocked Bowden from pulling away from the curb near his mother's housing project, approached the car and put three bullets in his head...
From there, the account gets confused. A new book, Deadly Force, and a recent Boston Phoenix article written by a reporter who was riding in the police car when the killing took place, both detail several apparent attempts to cover up the officers' wrongdoing. For instance, claims that Bowden fired at the officers and then threw the gun don't square with a pistol being found much later 200 feet from the scene, an impossible throw...