It could be a long summer in the city as groups of marauding teens on foot and motorized bikes terrorize T riders and residents while an MIA Mayor Michelle Wu and police stand by.
The latest violent incident came Tuesday evening when a 27-year-old man was kicked onto a departing Orange Line train by a group of teens robbing and harassing riders on the Back Bay platform.
He was hurt with a head wound but it could easily have been worse. T officials initially said nothing about the incident but later admitted Wednesday the bloodied victim came in contact with the train.
“At one point the victim was kicked, the force of the kick propelled the victim backwards as an MBTA train was departing,” Transit Police Supt. Richard Sullivan, who earned $239,203 in 2025, said. “It is my understanding the victim did contact the train.”
Your understanding? Really? Where were the police? Why are police now trying to diminish the threat to riders? Isn’t it important that we don’t keep T riders in the dark? Where is GM Phillip “Train Daddy” Eng, who makes a half million dollars a year?
This is the second time in the last few months that a T rider has been assaulted. In the earlier incident, a homeless man pushed a woman onto the tracks.
The question now is the T really safe to ride? And in Wutopia, is it safe to walk in Downtown Crossing and the Seaport?
And what is mayor’s strategy to combat these incidents as the warmer weather draws near and more and more kids are out on the streets and out of school?
No one was arrested in the Back Bay incident of course but for shocked witnesses it was an alarming and frightening commute home. Police say they are actively investigating and reviewing video footage.
This crime came a few days after a group of young people riding e-bikes and dirt bikes infiltrated Chinatown and Boston Common, frightening residents and prompting a city councilor to question whether police are enforcing the laws.
“Neighbors and pedestrians throughout the city of Boston – including our seniors, persons with disabilities and young families — consistently bring up the lack of enforcement on all two-wheeled vehicles operating on sidewalks, running red lights and stop signs, and going the wrong way down the street,” Flynn wrote in an ordinance he is submitting to the council.
Flynn, who is consistently ignored by Wu and her stooges on the council, will no doubt find his ordinance filed to some obscure committee and left to die.
But he has been one of the few moderate voices of reason in the city.
“We have traffic laws on the books for a reason,” he said. “To provide a safe environment for all. We must enforce traffic laws in Boston and acknowledge and address the senseless and random violence we are witnessing across our neighborhoods. We must have zero tolerance for any criminal activity in Boston. Those involved in criminal activity need to be held responsible in our court system.”
Wu has been in Germany all week on a paid junket, which coincidentally is on security, and has had no public appearances in Boston for days.
In Munich – her second trip out of the country since winning reelection – Wu was posing for photographs with Hillary Clinton and shining up her national profile, which is prompting speculation about her political future.
Even when she comes back, she will do nothing to crack down on these violent teens breaking the law and making the city unsafe to live and work in.
That’s because she has long claimed Boston is the safest major city in the country, a laughable assertion given the latest incidents.
