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THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2019 The Boston Globe Metro B5

Today is Thursday, Aug. 8,
the 220th day of 2019.There
are 145 days left in the year.
Birthdays: ActressNita Tal-
bot is 89. Actor Dustin Hoff-
manis 82. ActressConnie Ste-
vensis 81. Actor Larry Wilcox
is 72. Actor Keith Carradineis

70. Movie director Martin Brest
    is 68. Percussionist Anton Fig is


71. Actor Donny Most is 66. TV
    personality Deborah Norville is


72. U2 guitarist The Edge is 58.
    Rhythm-and-blues singer Drew
    Lachey (98 Degrees) is 43. Ten-
    nis player Roger Federeris 38.
    Chicago Cubsfirst baseman
    Anthony Rizzo is 30. Pop singer
    Shawn Mendesis 21.
    ºIn 1815,Napoleon
    Bonaparte set sail for St. Hele-
    na to spendthe remainderof
    his days in exile.
    ºIn 1876, ThomasA. Edi-
    son received a patent for his
    mimeograph.
    ºIn 1942,duringWorld
    War II, six Nazi saboteurswho
    werecapturedafter landingin
    the United States wereexecut-
    ed in Washington, D.C.; two
    others who cooperated with au-
    thorities werespared.
    ºIn 1973,VicePresident
    SpiroT. Agnew brandedas
    ‘‘damned lies’’ reports he had
    taken kickbacks from govern-
    mentcontracts in Maryland,
    and vowednot to resign—
    whichhe endedup doing.
    ºIn 1974,PresidentRich-
    ard Nixon, facing damaging
    new revelationsin the Water-
    gate scandal,announced he
    would resignthe following day.

ºIn 2002,SaddamHussein

organizeda big military parade

and then warned ‘‘the forces of

evil’’ not to attack Iraq as he

soughtoncemoreto shift the

debate away from worldde-

mandsthat he live up to agree-

ments that endedthe Gulf War.

ºIn 2003, the Boston Ro-

manCatholicarchdioceseof-

fered $55 million to settle more

than500 lawsuitsstemming

fromalleged sex abuseby

priests. (The archdioceselater

settled for $85 million.)

ºIn 2006,Roger Goodell

was chosenas the NFL’s next

commissioner.

ºIn 2009,SoniaSotomayor

was swornin as the US Su-

preme Court’s first Hispanic

and third female justice. A

small plane collided with a

sightseeing helicopterover the

Hudson River in New York City,

killing nine people, including

five Italian tourists. Typhoon

Morakot slammedinto Taiwan,

leavingmorethan670 either

deador missing(the typhoon

also killed22 peoplein the

Philippines and eight in Chi-

na).

ºIn 2014, the US unleashed

its first airstrikes against the Is-

lamic State group in northern

Iraq amida worsening humani-

tarian crisis.

ºLast year, the United

States saidit wouldimpose

new sanctions on Russia for il-

legallyusinga chemicalweap-

on in an attemptto kill a for-

mer spy and his daughter in

Britain.

Thisday in history

train cameoff the rails.”

The operator has been“re-

moved from service,” the T

said.

The T has also said operator

errorwas behind the derail-

mentof anotherRiverside

Green Linecar in June, injur-

ing 11 people. Another River-

side train derailed in February,

on the day of the parade for the

Super BowlwinningNew Eng-

landPatriots, andin late

March, a Green Line car that

was not in service also cameoff

a side track on the B line.

The agency remains deep in

a months-long effort to repair

the extensive damage on the

Red Linefromthe derailment

of a train outsideJKF/UMass

Station on June 11.

The incident has cast a

harsh spotlighton the MBTA’s

record.In the five-year period

from 2014 to 2018, the T had

the second-highest numberof

derailments among metro tran-

sit systems in the country, with

43, behind only New Orleans.

The T has said morethanone-

third of those incidents in-

volvedmaintenancevehicles,

whichdo not carry passengers.

uDERAILMENT

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The Red Line derailment in

particularly has generated a

cascade of criticism at the T,

withmany commuterson the

southside of the subway line

complainingof erratic service

and uncomfortably jammed

cars.

Officialsare targeting Octo-

ber for restoration of all of the

signalsalongthe affected sec-

tionsof the Red Line,but said

that subway ridersshouldex-

pect to see someimprovements

in travel and wait timesbefore

then.

On the D branchof the

Green LineWednesday morn-

ing, the T ran busesbetween

Riversideand Newton High-

lands stationsbefore regular

service resumed aroundnoon.

“I want to apologize to the

GreenLine customerswhose

commutesweredisruptedthis

morning,” T general manager

Steve Poftak saidin a state-

ment. “We will complete the

formal investigation as soon as

possible and take corrective ac-

tion if needed. We can and we

must do better.”

Emily Sweeneycanbe reached

at [email protected]

heron Twitter@emilysweeney.

able,” they said of the wheel-
chair disposals.
Marty Martinez, Boston’s
chief of health and human ser-
vices, saidthe disposal of
wheelchairsshould not have
happened. “That is not proto-
col, and that is not supposed to
be happening, and we’re going
to workwith the Police Depart-
mentto make sure that doesn’t
happen,” he said.
The Tuesday nightsweep,
which the witnesses said in-
volved morethana dozen po-
lice cars and Department of
Public Works trucks,was part
of an effort to “clean up” an ar-
ea frequented by homeless
peoplethat started after an as-
sault on a Suffolk County depu-
ty sheriff Thursday.
Although there had been ar-
rests last week,the policear-
rested no one Tuesday, but
they reportedly instructed
homeless people to leave.
Advocates for the homeless,
tipped off to the police action,
turned out to witness it.
Amongthemwas Dr. Dinah
Applewhite, an addiction med-
icinefellowat Massachusetts
General Hospital, who
snapped a photoof two or
threewheelchairsbeing
crushed in a garbage truck on

uWHEELCHAIR
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Albany Street and posted it on

Twitter.

The photowas sharedon

Twitter and the police conduct

widely criticized. City Council-

or-at-Large Michelle Wu

retweeted it with a comment:

“This image represents a cruel-

ty that government shouldtry

to stop, not carry out.”

SergeantDetective John

Boyle, a Boston Police Depart-

mentspokesman,said the offi-

cers went to the neighborhood

basedon crime data “to protect

the general publicsafety in the

area.” The wheelchairs, he

said,werethrown away be-

causethey were damaged and

soiled with “bodily fluids.”

But Jared Rennick, a 38-

year-old homeless man, told

the GlobeTuesday nightthat

he neededa wheelchairthat

was destroyed,alongwith the

backpackthat held all of his

possessions. He was using a

caneand worea backbrace

and a walking boot.

“I’m doing nothingwrong

to anyone out here,” he said.

Applewhitesaid the city

was criminalizing the home-

less by tossing out theirbe-

longings.

“What else are you saying

otherthan‘Your mereexis-

tenceis illegal,’ ” she said.

“That’s definitely the message.”

Applewhiteand another

witness, CassieHurd, said

Rennick was giving someone a

haircut underthe street light

whenthe policeconvoy pulled

up to the cornerof Albany

Street and Massachusetts Ave-

nue. They said his girlfriendor

wife,sobbing, begged city

workers not to take the wheel-

chair.

“She was very hysterical

andshe was saying, ‘Why

wouldyou take the wheel-

chair?’ ” Applewhite said.

Hurd and Applewhiteare

membersof SIFMA-Now, a

group that advocates for a safe

place for addicted peopleto in-

ject drugs.

Todd Kaplan,a lawyerwith

Greater Boston Legal Services,

followed policeon his bicycle.

He said he saw a wheelchair in

a garbage truckat Harrison

Avenueand Melnea CassBou-

levard and spoke with an el-

derlyman who said it was his.

Boylesaid that anyonewho

needs a wheelchairshouldap-

proachan officer and will get

help acquiring one.

Wu, who was not available

for an interview, addedin oth-

er tweets:

“The urgent need for clean

& safe streets can’t come at the

expenseof destabilizing treat-

mentfor thosewho needit &

destroyingproperty of those

whohave no hometo store

things,whilejust movingpeo-

ple on to somewhereelse....

Our public resources should

match the scale of the crisis,

not set up a conflict between

public safety, public health &

community.”

City CouncilorFrank Baker,

who representsthe South End,

saidhe hadn’t heard about

Tuesday night’s sweepbut

praised previous law enforce-

ment actions. “It’s out of con-

trol downthere,” he said.

Milton Valenciaof theGlobe

staff contributed to this report.

Green Line train derails, adding to MBTA’s woes

Police dump wheelchairs, trigger criticism

CRAIGF. WALKER/GLOBESTAFF

Commutersboardedbusesusedto shuttleGreenLineridersfromRiversideto NewtonHighlandsWednesday morning.

‘What elseareyousayingotherthan,

“Yourmereexistenceis illegal.”That’s

definitelythemessage.’

DR. DINAH APPLEWHITE,anadvocate forthehomeless

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