U MUST FIGHT CITY HALL An off-duty officer crashed into a disabled grandmother. A year later, she’s still fighting City Hall

 

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An off-duty officer crashed into a disabled grandmother. A year later, she’s still fighting City Hall

Two weeks after the crash, Anne-Marie Castor rubbed her left knee and felt the glass still embedded beneath her skin. The letter from the tow truck company made the pain worse. Her car ― her lifeline ― was totaled. Until July 28, 2019, when a troubled Boston police officer slammed his cruiser into her car, Castor had lived on the edge of poverty.

 

 But now, she faced ruin. None of it was Castor’s fault. But the blue line that protects problem cops ― even when they break the rules, even when they leave an elderly woman thanking God she is still alive ― is a powerful force. And City Hall’s maddening bureaucracy can make it worse.

 

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