Boston police officer charged with domestic assault and battery in Tewksbury

By adamg on Wed, 08/19/2015 - 9:46pm

Boston police officer Patrick McCarthy, 35, was released on personal recognizance today at his arraignment on a a charge of assault and battery on a household member, the Middlesex County District Attorney's office reports.

McCarthy was ordered to stay away from his alleged victim - and to not possess any firearms.

At approximately 8:25 p.m., last night, the alleged victim came to the station to report an assault. The individual told officers that the defendant threw her phone down a flight of stairs; threatened to throw the alleged victim down the stairs; slapped the alleged victim; and then threw the alleged victim onto the ground. Officers went to McCarthy’s residence and the defendant was placed under arrest.

Innocent, etc.

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Comments

Doesn't domestic violence

By Ryan on Thu, 08/20/2015 - 1:54pm.

Doesn't domestic violence imply the victim and abuser live together? He's supposedly a Boston resident and I believe also that BPD requires its officers to live in Boston, yet the victim and incident occurred in Tewksbury. Something doesn't add up, or maybe I just don't understand how this works.

He was a Boston resident....

By Pete Nice on Thu, 08/20/2015 - 3:06pm.

And no, Boston Police officers are no longer required to live in Boston.

And also, you don't have to live together to have a domestic situation. GF/BF or a mother of a common child, ex wife, etc. These would all be considered domestic situations.

Yes you do.. For 10 years

By anon on Thu, 08/20/2015 - 6:04pm.

Yes you do.. For 10 years after graduating the Academy. Are you BPD?

Two (or more) sides to every story, except for police

By O-FISH-L on Thu, 08/20/2015 - 7:28pm.

I didn't have the pleasure of serving with Officer Patrick McCarthy but learned Spanish many years ago from Boston Police Sgt. Arthur McCarthy who had learned the language from his Puerto-Rican wife. A great class that probably saved many officer's lives, getting to know what was being said in Spanish by suspects around us. The McCarthy's are and were a great part of the BPD, not sure if this kid is related. Domestic violence should always be condemned but so should the rush to judgment.

That said, an interesting police skit on "Beat the Press" on channel 2 the other night, "One Year After Ferguson." It wasn't until the very end of the segment on police brutality that one of the five, far-left "journalists" practically whispered as an afterthought that the police acted properly in the Ferguson case, essentially admitting that the rioting and media coverage was misguided from the start. Priceless.

Encouraging to see Middlesex DA Mariann Ryan starting to take alleged domestic violence seriously. Perhaps Jared Remy's girlfriend didn't die in vain.