the Boston police department has released bodyw warn camera footage after the arrest of 108 students overnight at Emerson College the footage shows Boston police captain Shawn Martin of District A1 attempting to deescalate the situation with the protesters and warning them of the city ordinances they are violating prior to making any arrests protesters ignored These Warnings before the Boston police ultimately took action and made 108 arrests while clearing the public area of the protesters and the encampment created by them [Applause] want why are you surrounding me so you can talk I'm ready to talk to you why are you advancing we don't want to arrest anybody we support your right to protest I'm indiffer okay I don't have a side either way I want you to be able to peacefully do this however with the Block in the street I can't have that I need just to open up leave open otherwise I have to I have to remove you from here I do not want to arrest anybody I want you to be able to protest again wait IND different we're not trying to prevent you from protesting I'm not I don't sympathize either way however there's a lot of fire codes being broken a lot of Bigg things going on here that we just can't allow there's a building right here that people are deployed at that need the emergency access so we just need you in addition people who want to leave you got to be able to let them leave so with that being said I think you can tell by no means we want to arrest anybody we don't want any get hurt we don't want anyone to get you know screwed up in school with grads or whatever Missy finals so I'm trying to work with you all trust me we're not the enemy on this we're indifferent so I'm going to ask you all you know you guys been protesting all day I get it listen I get it I support what you're trying to do however at this point it's late people live here getting a lot of complaints we let it go for a while we're supposed to come down about 10: p.m. and we're looking to give you your space and let you all be this okay but certain point they all they got to go to work in the morning as well so we're trying to be reasonable with all them right so again I'm not looking to try to be unreasonable I gave you guys several hours extra I do not want to arrest anybody I want you all to go back to school tomorrow finish your finals do your protest we're just going to do it the right way that's all I ask we don't want to we don't want to escalate to do anything so again I've done a lot of these always reasonable we don't want to arrest anybody trust me we all want to go home just like we want you to go home toight so I'm welcome I'm free to answer any questions um speak to anyone who wants to speak to me but just later we we got to open up free free Palestine free free pales free free pales free free pales free free Palestine free free Palestine free free Palestine free free palestin when everon is under attack this stemmed from an incident that occurred in the early morning hours of Thursday April 25th 2024 right around 2 a. the released body cam footage shows one officer clearly stating we don't want to arrest anybody we support your right to protest I'm indifferent I don't have a side either way I want you to be able to peacefully do this in addition to the 108 people arrested there were four officers injured one officer received serious but non-life-threatening injuries Sergeant John Bo the Boston Police Department spokesman confirmed that there were 108 people arrested whom are set to be arraigned in Boston Municipal Court on either May 1st or May 8th we don't get it shut it down free free Palestine free free Palestine free free Palestine free free Palestine free free Palestine free free Palestine free free Palestine free free pal free free palde free free palde free free Palestine free free Palestine free free Palestine free free Palestine free free pal micophone micophone on October 25th 2023 the city council passed and the mayor signed an ordinance related to the unlawful camping on public property camping ordinance section 16-6 a camping ordinance prohibits camping on public property under certain circumstances this ordinance prohibits persons from camping or maintaining campsite or Camp materials in any space in the public right of way including but not limited to any Street sidewalk school or public park unless specifically authorized to doing so in a period when shelter is unavailable if an individual accepts an offer of shelter space the officer shall work with the coordinator response team or available service provider to identify a location for placement in the event that shelter space is unavailable this will be communicated to City to the bureau Field [Music] Services no trick is it running [Music] we charge you with genocide we Char you with genocide you hi the turn free free pal School free I did actually that's why that's [Applause] [Applause] why on May 25th uh excuse me on October 25th 2023 the city council passed and the mayor signed an ordinance related to the unlawful camping on public property camping ordinance section-1 1665 an ordinance city ordinance ribits camping on public property under certain circumstances the ordinance prohibits any person from camping or maintaining campsite materials on any public property or any public right of way including but not limited to any Street or sidewalk school or public park unless specifically authorized during a period of time when shelter is unavailable if an individual accepts an offer of shelter uh the officer shall work with the coordinator response team or ailable services to render such service and find a location for placement in the event the shelter space is unavailable that will be communicated Citywide through the bureau Field Services okay that person with the backpack take person with the backpack grab onto that this camera is rolling so recorded me doing it twice ordinance uh hey take this car this car out meet me Aton come down the street the street open get the uh the wag in before we move on the crow I need you to go ahead and push the sidewalk back resp response [Music]