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Thursday 14 July 2022
Officer, once beaten by colleagues, to lead Boston police

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER crack his head.
Associated Press Cox chose to stay in the
BOSTON (AP) — A former police force after what
Boston police officer who happened to him and try
was beaten more than 25 to improve things instead
years ago by colleagues of walking away from a job
who mistook him for a he loved, he said Wednes-
shooting suspect will be day.
the new leader of the city's "Since then in 1995, I have
police department, Mayor dedicated my life to mak-
Michelle Wu announced ing sure that both the Bos-
Wednesday. ton police department
Michael Cox, 57, will return and policing in general
to his hometown of Boston has grown and learned ...
after working as the police to make sure that we have
chief in Ann Arbor, Michi- structures and mechanisms
gan, to lead of the same in place to make sure that
force he once brought a we never repeat that kind
civil rights case against of incident against any-
over his beating by fellow one," Cox told reporters.
cops. Cox, who is Black, will The top prosecutor for Bos-
take over as commissioner ton and surrounding com-
next month. munities, who has known
Cox described his appoint- Michael Cox, who has been named as the next Boston police commissioner, faces reporters dur- Cox for years, called him
ment is an "emotional mo- ing a news conference, Wednesday, July 13, 2022, in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood. "a man of high honor and
ment" for him, apologizing Associated Press integrity."
during a call with report- "The journey of Michael
ers for his voice quivering. Before becoming chief in him. The suspect started "There's no reason to treat Cox from being beaten
He promised to work to di- Ann Arbor in 2019, Cox was to scale a fence and Cox anyone like that. And then by fellow Boston Police of-
versify the police depart- part of the Boston police was struck from behind just to just leave them. And if ficers to his appointment as
ment — which critics have force for 30 years, where he as he was about to grab they do it to me — another Commissioner of the Boston
long complained doesn't rose through the ranks after the man, Cox said. He was police officer — would they Police Department is em-
look enough like the city it fighting for years to get jus- kicked and punched by do it to another person if blematic of criminal legal
serves — and make sure of- tice over his beating that fellow officers, suffering they got away with it?" Cox reform," Suffolk County Dis-
ficers feel supported in their left him seriously injured at head injuries and kidney said. trict Attorney Kevin Hayden
job to protect the commu- the age of 29. damage. Cox has described facing said in an emailed state-
nity. Cox was working under- "It was humiliating what harassment in an effort to ment.
"I think this is a very excit- cover in plainclothes as happened to me," Cox silence him after the beat- Cox's tenure in Ann Arbor
ing time. I think the officers part of the gang unit in told former Boston Globe ing became public despite was marred by claims that
need someone to support January 1995 when officers reporter Dick Lehr for Lehr's efforts by his colleagues to he created a hostile work
them," Cox told reporters got a call about a shooting. book about the beating: cover it up. A department environment, which led to
Wednesday. "And I'm go- Cox, dressed in jeans and a "The Fence: A Police Cov- injury report said Cox lost him being briefly placed
ing to their biggest cheer- sweatshirt, spotted the sus- er-Up Along Boston's Racial his footing on a frozen pud- on administrative leave in
leader." pect and started to chase Divide." dle, causing him to fall and 2020.q

Bodies of missing man, 3 kids found in Indianapolis pond

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The with the bodies of three fishing. "As far as we know,
bodies of a man and his children inside, police said. he was coming out here to
three young children who "Detectives are working to go fishing," she told The In-
vanished last week after piece together what led dianapolis Star on Monday.
leaving for a fishing trip up to this incident," police "That's what he told my sis-
were found along with a said in a statement. ter. It's not odd. He does it
submerged car in the pond Family and friends of the all the time."
where they were headed, Moormans had offered a The Indianapolis Metropoli-
authorities said Wednes- $10,000 reward for informa- tan Police Department first
day. tion leading to their where- revealed that the family
The bodies discovered abouts. They had searched had disappeared on Sun-
Tuesday night are those of the pond and the surround- day. Earlier this week, po-
Kyle Moorman, 27, of India- ing area for days. A private lice said officers searched
napolis, and his children: helicopter and volunteers the area and other loca-
1-year-old Kyran Holland, with a personal boat also tions on foot and using
2-year-old Kyannah Hol- A car that matches the description of Kyle Moorman's vehicle searched Tuesday, The In- drones.
was removed from the crime scene after the bodies of a man
land and 5-year-old Kyle and three children were found Tuesday, July 12, 2022, on Bluff dianapolis Star reported. William Muse, a relative of
Moorman II, the Marion Road in Indianapolis. Moorman's sister Mariah Kyle Moorman's mother,
County Coroner's Office Associated Press Moorman had said her said Tuesday he and other
confirmed. The causes and brother's phone last pinged family members were frus-
manners of their deaths to the pond on Indianapo- port of a dead person in near the pond about 12:40 trated investigators didn't
were pending. lis' south side. the water. A man was pro- a.m. on July 7, a few hours search the pond sooner.
The family went missing af- Officers went to the pond nounced dead, and a dive after he was seen. She said "They should have at least
ter leaving on July 6 to go Tuesday night after a re- team later found a vehicle her brother often goes night tried," Muse said.q