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Inside Martin Walsh’s botched appointment
of his Boston police commissioner
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When Boston Police Commissioner William Gross told Mayor Martin Walsh that he would resign, Gross also had a clear idea of who should succeed him: his chief of staff and close confidante, Superintendent Dennis White.
Walsh agreed, and no one else was considered for the position. White would become the second Black head of the nation’s oldest police force.
But within days of the announcement, Walsh would sideline his newly sworn-in commissioner amid revelations of allegations that White had pushed and threatened to shoot his then-wife, also a police officer, 22 years earlier.
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