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...Boston, 1000 protesters outside Holy Cross Cathedral chanted "stop racism now" and held up placards to attract the Pope's attention. The racially-mixed demonstrators were protesting the shooting of a high school football player last week in Charlestown. The Secret Service rerouted the Pontiff to avoid the protesters...
Last week, Darryl Williams, a student at Jamaica Plain High School, was shot at Charlestown High School during a football game. There has been a continuing pattern of racial violence since school started, Terry Tirrel, an organizer of the event, said yesterday, adding, "The shooting was the straw that broke the camel's back...
...Charlestown, a predominantly white section of Boston, has been the site of previous racial trouble because of the court-ordered busing to the high school...
...three youths from the Charlestown area are being held with $100,000 bail. They were arraigned yesterday in Charlestown District Court...
Darryl Williams, a Jamaica Plain black teenager, was shot and paralyzed Friday during a football scrimmage in Charlestown...