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Cop union prez’s kin: No politics in sign burn
Cop union prez’s kin: No politics in sign burn
By Richard Weir | Friday, October 23, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Local Coverage
The 20-year-old nephew of a Boston police union president and his pal found themselves in hot water on a cold night when they got busted in a Dorchester park burning a Mayor Thomas M. Menino campaign sign in a trash barrel in what they told cops was a means of “trying to keep warm.”
Shane Gillespie, whose uncle Joseph Gillespie is president of the Boston Superior Police Officers Federation, adamantly denied that his burning of the Menino sign and a milk ad Saturday at 2 a.m. was politically motivated.
The superior officers federation has endorsed Menino’s rival, mayoral hopeful Michael Flaherty.
Lt. Joseph Gillespie said he had no knowledge of the incident, nor any ties to his estranged nephew.
“I have not spoken to him in three, maybe four years, and I haven’t seen him in more years than that. I am quite certain he has no inclination of my political affiliations,” he said, adding that he deplores vandalism of political signs. “I don’t like those tactics. It’s not the right thing to do.”
Shane Gillespie, a martial arts instructor from Milton, and his friend, Andrew Bechtold, 18, of Dorchester, told police they were lighting the two signs in the barrel in Garvey Park.
“We burned those signs to keep warm. It was 30 degrees out,” Shane Gillespie told the Herald yesterday. “My last name might happen to be Gillespie, but this has nothing to do with my uncle.”
Patrick Gillespie defended his son, saying, “There’s probably not a more apolitical person on the face of this Earth. This was simply a case of kids being out in a park and being cold and doing something stupid. He was burning what was convenient. If there was a Flaherty sign there, he would have burned that.”
Police released Shane Gillespie and his friend without an arrest, noting in the report that the two were “cooperative and respectful.”
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1206737
By Richard Weir | Friday, October 23, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Local Coverage
The 20-year-old nephew of a Boston police union president and his pal found themselves in hot water on a cold night when they got busted in a Dorchester park burning a Mayor Thomas M. Menino campaign sign in a trash barrel in what they told cops was a means of “trying to keep warm.”
Shane Gillespie, whose uncle Joseph Gillespie is president of the Boston Superior Police Officers Federation, adamantly denied that his burning of the Menino sign and a milk ad Saturday at 2 a.m. was politically motivated.
The superior officers federation has endorsed Menino’s rival, mayoral hopeful Michael Flaherty.
Lt. Joseph Gillespie said he had no knowledge of the incident, nor any ties to his estranged nephew.
“I have not spoken to him in three, maybe four years, and I haven’t seen him in more years than that. I am quite certain he has no inclination of my political affiliations,” he said, adding that he deplores vandalism of political signs. “I don’t like those tactics. It’s not the right thing to do.”
Shane Gillespie, a martial arts instructor from Milton, and his friend, Andrew Bechtold, 18, of Dorchester, told police they were lighting the two signs in the barrel in Garvey Park.
“We burned those signs to keep warm. It was 30 degrees out,” Shane Gillespie told the Herald yesterday. “My last name might happen to be Gillespie, but this has nothing to do with my uncle.”
Patrick Gillespie defended his son, saying, “There’s probably not a more apolitical person on the face of this Earth. This was simply a case of kids being out in a park and being cold and doing something stupid. He was burning what was convenient. If there was a Flaherty sign there, he would have burned that.”
Police released Shane Gillespie and his friend without an arrest, noting in the report that the two were “cooperative and respectful.”
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1206737
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