Rep. Katherine Clark’s daughter arraigned in Boston courtroom on assault cost

Massachusetts Rep. Katherine Clark’s daughter was arraigned Monday in Boston on charges that embrace assault and battery on a police officer after a violent weekend protest. 

Riley Dowell, 23, was allegedly vandalizing a bandstand on the Boston Common Saturday with anti-police slogans “NO COP CITY” and “ACAB” — an acronym for “all cops are bastards” — when she flailed her arms and hit an officer trying to arrest her, a prosecutor talked about Monday. 

During the arrest of Dowell, who’s non-binary and was acknowledged in police tales by her starting establish Jared Dowell, “a group of about 20 protesters began to surround officers while screaming profanities though megaphones on the public street causing traffic to come to a standstill,” an announcement from Boston police talked about.

“While interfering with the arrest of Jared Dowell, an officer was hit in the face and could be seen bleeding from the nose and mouth,” the assertion added.

Dowell has been charged with assault and battery on a police officer, vandalizing property, tagging property, vandalizing a historic marker/monument, and resisting arrest. Authorities moreover discovered a can of spray paint in her backpack and observed paint on her fingers and jacket after her arrest, in preserving with prosecutors.

Dowell has pleaded not accountable and was set free on $500 bail. 

Her mother, the House Democratic whip, tweeted about Dowell’s arrest Sunday.

“I love Riley, and this is a very difficult time in the cycle of joy and pain in parenting,” Clark tweeted over the weekend. “This will be evaluated by the legal system, and I am confident in that process.”

Dowell has one different courtroom date on April 19.

The Boston protest was reportedly carried out in a gift of solidarity with demonstrators in Atlanta who’re protesting a deliberate $90 million, 85-acre laws enforcement teaching facility derided as “Cop City” by the activists. 

Last week, protester Manuel Esteban Paez Teran, 26, was shot and killed by police after he allegedly opened fireside and injured an officer on the website of a deliberate Atlanta-area public safety teaching coronary heart. His demise sparked a wave of protests over the weekend.