Keller @ Large: Mayor Walsh On Dorchester High School Shooting
BOSTON (CBS) -- Fresh off the plane from his visit to China, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh sat down with WBZ political analyst Jon Keller to discuss some of the issues facing the city.
Walsh arrived home just as a shooting near a Dorchester high school killed a young man, 17-year-old Raekwon Brown. Boston Police Commissioner William Evans said after the shooting that students who witnessed the shooting weren't coming forward, and that "everyone should be outraged by what happened, and shame on everybody if the parents and kids don't step up here."
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Jon asked Walsh about City Councilor Tito Jackson's statement that Evans' comments in the wake of the shooting "re-victimized" students.
"Billy Evans has a 17-year-old son that he talked about that day, that, he can't imagine as a father having to notify a mother or a father that their kid has been shot coming out of school," Walsh said. "He took that very personal ... He is the police commissioner of Boston, but he's also upset."
Walsh also talked about U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz's indictment of one of his top aides, Kenneth Brissette, on a charge of illegally denying city permits as part of an alleged quid pro quo for hiring union workers.
"We're working with the U.S. Attorney's Office, and we want to get to the bottom of this," said Walsh. "Obviously it's something that we don't want to have linger on here in City Hall, and we're going to work with them and cooperate any way we can."
He said the city has reached out to the State Ethics Commission to develop a training for all cabinet-level employees and department heads.
"We do have to file ethics disclosures as city employees," said Walsh. "But we're looking to do a little more intensive training with our folks just to be able to have a conversation about what's proper, what's inappropriate, so people understand so they don't get themselves in a situation where it won't be a good situation."
Keller and Walsh also talked about the failed IndyCar Boston race.
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