INCOMING POLICE LEADER ADVOCATES VIOLENCE AGAINST LEFT-WING PROTESTERS:

A veteran police leader who was set to become executive director of the Massachusetts Police Association has been suspended after penning columns that endorsed violence against protesters, compared asylum-seeking migrants to the Japanese during Pearl Harbor, criticized criminal justice reform and ridiculed progressive policing. Arlington police lieutenant Rick Pedrini has been placed on paid administrative leave after writing three articles containing controversial statements for "The Sentinel," the official publication of the MPA, MassLive reported. He was suspended from his duties at the MPA and the pieces were retracted. -- More....