Police chief 'disturbed' by Sandra Birchmore claims | Banfield

A recently released report suggests the death of Massachusetts woman Sandra Birchmore was a homicide, not a suicide, as an earlier investigation ruled. Stoughton's Police Chief Donna M. McNamara released a statement that she's "profoundly disturbed and troubled" by the report. Retired detective Robert Anzilotti joins "Banfield" to discuss.
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[@frankietyree1953]

Policing their own DOES NOT WORK! It was never intended to do anything but keep their own secrets!🤬

[@playsaboutmycat]

💯

[@Always_Thinking]

It's thir culture 😮

[@PostalWorker14]

That’s why we have FBI

[@georgewashington3555]

4th Karen Read juror confirms a unanimous ‘not guilty’ on murder, attorneys say...

[@s1lenceblade]

Neither Canton PD nor MSP should be allowed anywhere near this case after the shitshow that was the Karen Read Investigation.

[@crozetisles8315]

This happened before the Karen Read case, and it is starting to look like that whole part of Mass. is nothing but a shitshow.

[@bendem63]

💯

[@charliesschroedinger]

​@crozetisles8315 agreed 💯. Runs the gammit now. Groton k9 cop somehow "lost track" of the dog and it got hit and they want to bury the driver instead of the terrible k9 cop. Townsend has so much corruption the auditing community is starting to descend upon them. It's everywhere. Every town. And at the State level. They've forgotten they serve under our heels and We the People should press down firmly upon them with those heels to remind them they're merely servants. Nothing more. They exist to suckle off the taxpayers and do what they're commanded to by the Citizenry.

[@marianuz8576]

Wonder why no one trusts the police

[@janemiettinen5176]

Foxes investigating other foxes in chicken coop, what could go wrong!

[@wildlightarts]

Justice for Sandra Birchmore. NOW. State police are too close in Massachusetts. There is A LOT of corruption here. The Disabled Person's protection commission investigates the death and abuse of disabled and elderly people and its oversight is the Mass State Police. This terrifies me as a woman experiencing ongoing violent abuse towards me, who is also having difficulty with local police in the suburban Boston area. I have definitely noticed some serious culture of policing problems, like police hazing victims of abuse. I have not found the hope or that the help is available effectively anytime, personally. I hope that others are having more luck with that, with hotlines, with police, with actually connecting to services which are extremely overwhelmed and underfunded. I AM Actually up dealing with insomnia due to all of it, right now.

[@JustMe-gs9xi]

There are women's shelters that you can flee to, and also your children if you have any. Are you afraid to leave????

[@robertmcnearny9222]

We investigated oursleves and we found we did nothing wrong.

[@Itsmestephd]

😂😂😂

[@ccoop2416]

It's horrifying what bad cops are getting away with from one side of this country to the other

[@RawOlympia]

I was sexually assaulted along with a friend by a guy in a Duster in the 70s. A cop came by and we chased him down, the cop knew he's be hiding behind a Chinese takeout - he was. But it all got tossed out of court because the guy was the shrink for the court! This was on the north shore of Chicago area.

[@FullFrontalFromage]

I am so sorry that happened to you and that the asshole got away with it. I hope you healed and life treated you kindly.

[@NalaRichenbach]

That's awful!

[@sheilawoodbury2515]

So disgusting 🤢

[@nautifella]

We need a federal law forbidding any law enforcement agency from investing crimes committed by their own officers. It should be an office under the state AG, or the feds. (even though we know the feds to be as useful as tits on a bull.)

[@ShirlBussman]

AG in MA is corrupt too. Check almost anything that says Karen Read you will understand more then.

[@robertmcnearny9222]

They werent charged because of the whole blue line gang.

[@orosalsero]

The FBI should have been investigating this tragedy, unfortunately they can't be trusted either.

[@stewiepid4385]

The FBI and ATF and DOJ need to be cleaned out and disbanded.

[@heather-cz8yk]

They can be trusted way more than police departments. They really need to investigate this case, PLEASE FBI.

[@Cmunic8]

Why can’t the FBI be trusted?

[@keli449]

Oh they are, a few cops in karen read also in sandra..

[@kazapthegreat5306]

Keep up the exposure Ashley! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@summerwednesday7502]

I Believe the victim..... may Justice be served for this young lady 💜💜💜💜

[@Charlee-w1u]

Sick society .

[@michaelccopelandsr7120]

And cops wonder why no one trusts or respects them anymore

[@rwoodey68]

Law enforcement as a whole needs to be Restructured. Higher education requirements (A 2.0 GPA, well below the average, and 16 weeks of training is all you need to be a police officer in most states. The government has actually passed rulings that law enforcement can deny somebody for being to smart, the national average IQ score for police nationally was 21 to 22, the equivalent of a 104 IQ). Medical evaluation for Health and Steroid usage (steroids are known to increase irritability, anxiety and aggression and cause mood swings, with symptoms of paranoia and lack of emotion), psychological evaluations annually, and Term limited Civilian Oversight board.

[@heather-cz8yk]

Yes, yes, YES!!!! Absolutely!! It is very obvious....Thank you smart, good guy!

[@evilqueenyiayia]

Right, passing a child around. Isn't that awful. The Police Union will protect them. You watch. 😢

[@camnichol8468]

What did John O Keef know? Remember he was working in the s?x crimes unit..

[@NalaRichenbach]

He probably knew too much.

[@ShirlBussman]

@@NalaRichenbach That's why I think he was murdered.

[@keli449]

He also reported drugs in his neighborhood, kevin albert took the call, John also gave an investigator a video if this. That's the real reason he was killed.

[@ShirlBussman]

@@keli449 I did think there was drugs.

[@ConnieCrandall-hf8fn]

THERE NEEDS TO BE JUSTICE FOR SANDRA BIRCH!!!

[@bendem63]

🙏🏼🕊

[@etiger675]

You tell him Ashleigh! It’s disgusting and deplorable

[@audreydaleski1067]

U never allow perps to self investigate

[@GarbageTruckjuice]

All police departments indulge in this type of activity.

[@PostalWorker14]

I hope this scandal goes to the top right to the governors office

[@NalaRichenbach]

I think it's revolting... she was only 15 at the time.

[@PostalWorker14]

@@GarbageTruckjuice I don’t know about that But I’m sure before social media it was rampant

[@ilovelifelifelovesme773]

these 3 police officers even looks like the horror trio.

[@nicoletambasco9210]

I wish the Canton Community would be as loud as they are for this young woman as they are for Karen Read. The information has to get to them in a big way.

[@NalaRichenbach]

I didn't know about Karen Read until the start of her trial. I was only interested because her attorney was saying that she was framed. I'm thinking, "Oh sure, she was framed...another criminal who claims they didn't do it... like in the Shawshank Redemption, "I didn't do IT." I thought I would watch the news documentary of the Karen Read case before the trial started...so i know what's going on. By the end of the show... I was on Karen's side and still am.

[@reneearnett8761]

CANTON smh…. The most shady cops I’ve ever saw!!!!!

[@SJSummers01]

❤❤❤❤❤ Thank U for giving this more coverage. ❤❤❤❤❤

[@sh8nn0n92]

Thx Ashleigh❤️

[@kristenmichelle8152]

Banfield, have you ever called a hotline? There’s not the help available you advertise 😮

[@ronwade2206]

Jack Webb would vomit!

[@NalaRichenbach]

Jack Webb has been spinning like a fidget spinner in his grave ever since marijuana became legal in some states.

[@user-dt4kv2lp6z]

Not the first time a victim has made THESE EXACT CLAIMS!!!!!

[@Hbird12]

Thank you Ashley, you arr the best.!!!❤❤

[@mikecypret1045]

This is the law that normal people get.

[@kagnewcobra5228]

no victim no crime ? Show me the man/woman, I'll show you the crime!

[@rl1314]

We are trying to become more evolved as a society, but men are preventing that.

[@deborahhorgan6257]

Canton, Stoughton, Corruption

[@MaryEastBay]

A suggestion for the retired detective who was interviewed here: Sit still in the chair-don’t swing back and forth. Your words were fine but the movement of the chair gives the impression (erroneous I’m sure) that you are unsure/nervous about what you are saying. Thank you for your perspective

[@barbarapecoraro5293]

How is that 3 sickos happen to be on the force at the same time. Are there that many around us, are sickos drawn to this job or is there some sort of normalization of this behavior that bleeds from one cop to the next? What gives?!??!?? Scary!!!!

[@unityprojectrevolution6418]

Evil is ever increasingly being exposed... for those who have eyes, let them see, and for those who have ears, let them hear... Praise God!!! The devil cowers in hell because his time is short!!!

[@terrivangundy]

Of course

[@wethenorth6437]

Internal Affairs is no different that a private company's HR department in that it's not in their best interest to find wrongdoing since the company would be at risk of a lawsuit. Internal Affairs is a joke and I bet if you checked any recent guilty sentences of cops you would find that IA already did an internal investigation and found no wrong doing. Seriously do you expect employees who are working for a company to turn on their own company? It's called job security and suppressing the facts.

[@PostalWorker14]

The postal service has inspectors and they don’t play small towns are sewers

[@larryv4853]

Not surprising

[@joekev27]

If you want to be able to get away with statutory rape then just become a cop at this department. I love how the media keeps saying this child had a sexual relations with officers when thats not possible. How can a minor have a relationship with an adult. Thats rape plane and simple but we won't say that cuz its some officers that did the raping.

[@RawOlympia]

Was Maura Murray a victim of police as well?

[@audreydaleski1067]

Definite abuse

[@larryv4853]

Call in fbi

[@georgewashington3555]

4th Karen Read juror confirms a unanimous ‘not guilty’ on murder, attorneys say

[@ShirlBussman]

They're still going to retry her, last I heard.

[@TheAstrofromspace]

Also she treated like a groupie more than those 3 cops had her

[@PageTheRageTV]

just the way he started the interview, with a very arrogant and insulting way shows that he knows more than he says..

[@user-cb4di7qg3f]

Joe biden's america

[@user-bl4hb1bq9t]

Reporter lady is a drama qween! She's sketchy as hell!

[@ev500sam]

No victim, because of crime 🤔

[@mleaf4ever105]

FEDERAL!