Word: bpd
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Over two years after arresting a Harvard undergraduate and violating his civil rights, a Boston Police Department (BPD) sergeant was sentenced to nearly six years in prison yesterday...
...striking Trombly, but he and his lawyer argued that Byrne had used reasonable force in a terrified, split-second reaction to seeing the student reach for what he thought was a weapon. Byrne said the object in question proved to be a cell phone, but Trombly and another BPD officer testified that the phone had been confiscated long before...
Byrne was also convicted on four counts of witness tampering for his concerted efforts to hush BPD officers who had witnessed the events...
...according to PhRMA, a pharmaceutical trade group, up to 10% of all American kids may suffer from some mental illness. Perhaps twice that many have exhibited some symptoms of depression. Up to a million others may suffer from the alternately depressive and manic mood swings of bipolar disorder (BPD), one more condition that was thought until recently to be an affliction of adults alone. ADHD rates are exploding too. According to a Mayo Clinic study, children between 5 and 19 have at least a 7.5% chance of being found to have ADHD, which amounts to nearly 5 million kids. Other...
...aftermath of Trombly’s injuries, BPD witnesses told jurors of Byrne’s concerted efforts to keep them quiet about the abuse they’d seen as investigators turned up the heat...