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...first substantive public statement since the incident, Sgt. Harry A. Byrne Jr. admitted that he struck Garett D. Trombly ’03 in a Brighton station house after Trombly’s arrest in the early morning of Sept. 9, 2001. But Byrne, a 23-year BPD veteran, said that he had acted reflexively out of fear for his life when he saw Trombly reach for a black object in his pocket—which he said turned out to be a cell phone. Byrne said that at the time, his mind was filled with memories...
...Souleymane Sagna of 55 Howard St. was arrested after police received complaints that he was hitting children with a stick. After speaking with the involved people, the police determined that no one was struck...
Those charges were dropped for lack of evidence about a month later—but an investigation was soon launched into Trombly’s allegation that Byrne had repeatedly struck him in the police station, producing a broken jaw which remained wired shut for almost a month...
...brought mentally disabled children here. Holy water doesn’t stop cancer, chemotherapy does; and a three-dollar bar of soap in the shape of the Virgin Mary won’t do much in the way of healing birth defects. But my emotional, aesthetic side is completely struck by the wonder of the scene: by the music echoing from the giant underground basilica, by the way people’s hands lovingly stroke the rocks of the grotto, by the sense of hope and faith in the humid July air. Theirs is a hope and faith that leaves...
...views in this post: Sound health advice and greater control of what kids eat at schools is needed. But above all, I couldn't agree more with Andre Brassard: DO reduce portions in restaurants. Obscenely large is probably an understatement. This is one of the things that struck me the most as a European tourist in the States. And those bucketfuls of popcorn at cinemas, of ice cream at supermakets, and so on... Fernando Corts Spain...