"Winthrop teen charged in attack on disabled man" by Jasper Craven | Globe Correspondent, August 09, 2013
A Winthrop teenager is facing charges that he beat a developmentally disabled man and fractured his jaw, prosecutors said.
“This was an utterly shameful example of unprovoked violence against a person who could not defend himself,” Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said in a statement. “It was the act of a coward and a bully.”
He must have got it from the United States government because that's exactly what we do around the planet when we wage war on people on the basis of damnable lies from this government.
Anthony Gallo, 17, is accused of punching the 59-year-old disabled man in the face Tuesday night on Pauline Street. The victim encountered Gallo and two other young men in a parking lot, where the youths were apparently drinking and shaking a car, according to the district attorney’s office.
Time to end prohibition on weed and reinstitute prohibition on booze. To those who say we already tried that, doesn't work, I say you didn't try hard enough. Either that or quit being such a stinker on the medicine.
The victim told Gallo and his friends to stop their behavior, sparking a verbal altercation that ended with the victim allegedly being punched in the face. Gallo used epithets mocking the victim's disability during the interaction, prosecutors said.
Lesson: it's never worth it to be a good samaritan, especially when alcohol is involved. It leads to broken body parts, and I say this from personal experience.
The alleged victim notified Winthrop police the next afternoon. He was subsequently taken to Whidden Memorial Hospital in Everett and then to Massachusetts General Hospital for surgery, prosecutors said. He was released from the hospital Friday.
House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo said he has cultivated a relationship with the victim, whom he referred to as Richie, dating back to when DeLeo was a selectmen in Winthrop more than 20 years ago.
“I just can’t tell you the anger I have over this,” DeLeo said....
Judge Robert Ronquillo Jr. released Gallo on his own recognizance Thursday, but ordered him to stay away from the victim and to stay alcohol-free.
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Gallo is slated to return to court Oct. 1 for a pretrial conference, Conley’s office said.
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