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Powerful Public Art Strikes Again

On The Fence, May 2015
On The Fence, May 2015

In December 2014 a political artist from Jamaica Plain created a piece of public art as a commentary on the number of children killed by guns on a daily basis. That piece was made of painted children’s chairs attached to a chain-link fence, and was removed within 48 hours by the Boston Police Department, located across the street from the art site. The removal of that piece did not deter the artist who yesterday installed a new work.

Cops Recover Gun Nearby After Hyde Square Shooting

UPDATE: Prosecutors say taking this gun off the street might have prevented another shooting.

“If his intent was to retaliate for that earlier shooting,” Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley said in a statement, “then Boston Police may well have saved a life when they made this arrest.”

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Hours after a person was shot at Wyman and Centre streets, police recovered a gun a block away. But it isn’t clear if there’s a connection between the two incidents.