'It was you!' Traffic spat turned police coverup leads to questions for DA Hayden (Boston Globe)

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Afro Latino man calls 911 after white man pulls a gun on him. Minutes later, the same white man shows up in uniform with another cop, and writes him a ticket. Luckily the entire encounter was captured by 911 dispatch.

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‘It was you!’ Traffic spat turned police coverup leads to questions for DA Hayden - The Boston Globe
A Globe investigation has sparked a swirling controversy, with fingers pointed in all directions, and accusations of deception and lies lobbed back and forth among attorneys, police, and prosecutors.
6:43 AM · Aug 7, 2022

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/06/metro/it-was-you-traffic-spat-turned-police-coverup-leads-questions-da-hayden/

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Jason Leonor should have felt relief when the police cars pulled up behind him in Mattapan. After all, he was the one who called 911. Instead, he felt a swirl of confusion and dread. “Something isn’t right,” he thought.

The 33-year-old Hispanic Black man had just told a 911 operator that a white man driving a green Honda had pulled a gun on him during a traffic dispute. But these Transit Police cars had shown up before the operator had dispatched anyone.

“Can you stay on the phone with me?” Leonor asked the operator that afternoon in April 2021, as he eyed the officers in his rearview mirror. It would prove to be a critical request: No one might have believed his story if the 911 call, reviewed by the Globe, hadn’t captured what happened next.

An officer collected Leonor’s license and registration and walked back to his car. A few seconds passed. Then, the 911 tape captured the moment that a different officer, Transit Police Officer Jacob Green, walked up to Leonor’s car window. Green was now in full uniform, but Leonor recognized the face of the man in the green Honda.

“It was you!?” Leonor exclaimed, his voice half-yelp, half-question. “Why’d you pull out a gun on me?!”

This was the start of a coverup, happening in real time.

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Hayden, who is running for election in a Sept. 6 primary, said he would return $225 in political donations made to his campaign by Green and Green’s attorney, Robert Griffin. Those contributions were made, records show, days after Griffin said he was told explicitly by Hayden’s top deputy that the office wouldn’t be pursuing charges.

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4. I saw that.. and isn't Griffin

under investigation, too?

So Squirrelly!

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3. Wow.. that was weird. Good Luck

to Jason Leonor with Jacob Green being held accountable!

Those two Transit Police Officers sure messed up their lives.