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...Decker said. “It’s a little disconcerting.” According to Donald E. McGough, director of the Boston Office of Emergency Preparedness, $4.6 million has been invested since 2004 to install the network of cameras that runs through the nine cities and towns comprising the Boston Metropolitan Area. While the operation of individual cameras is left to local police departments, the network is supervised by the Office of Emergency Preparedness, which can take control of the cameras with local permission. The Cambridge Police Department did not respond to interview requests regarding the surveillance program...
Foster, 44, was well known to authorities in St. Tammany Parish, a relatively prosperous suburb just to the north of New Orleans, and in neighboring Washington Parish, where he lived in the working-class town of Bogalusa (population roughly 13,000). Earlier this decade, he pleaded guilty to monetary instrument abuse charges - essentially forgery and selling counterfeit money. In 2001, he became founding Imperial Wizard of the Southern White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. It launched chapters in Florida, Georgia and Ohio. Then, in 2005, it disbanded. His next act was the Sons of Dixie, and he drew...
...included the shaving of Lynch's head, the white hooded suits, the pledging of loyalty to the Klan, the burning of torches. It extended into Saturday. Then, on Sunday, Strain says, Foster led his group of disciples - including his son, and Lynch - to an isolated campsite in the town of Sun (population barely 500), in St. Tammany Parish. About 5 p.m., as the ceremony ended, Lynch apparently asked Foster to take her back to town, so she could return to Tulsa. She was reportedly homesick. Foster reportedly refused. She asked again. But, Strain says, Foster pushed her to the ground...
...open to find the bullet to destroy the evidence. Right where she fell." According to Strain, Foster then ordered his disciples to destroy the evidence, burning Lynch's clothes, then bringing her body to the end of the boat launch, just steps away from the police station in the town of Sun. Two of Foster's disciples allegedly walked into a nearby convenience store and asked a clerk: How do you remove blood from clothing? The clerk called the authorities. Lynch's body was soon found. Investigators soon reached five of Foster's disciples on their cell phones. They were...
Folks in Bogalusa remain in shock. The episode is an embarrassing, chilling reminder of the 1960s, when the town endured tumultuous Civil Rights protests, and was even known as the "Klan Capital" of the U.S. In recent weeks, national television cameras have swooped into town. One front-page Times-Picayune headline blared: "Change of heart doomed woman." Joe Culpepper, captain of Bogalusa's 39-member police force, says the whole ordeal "took us by surprise. We have our share of white trash up here. But the community has evolved past Klan-type behavior. Nobody is on that page anymore." Andre...