Roslindale bar rolls back last call after closing-hour fights; other bars also report closing-time violence

Napper Tandy's, 4187 Washington St., in Roslindale, says it's voluntarily rolled back its closing time from 2 a.m. to 1 a.m. to try to avoid a repeat of two fights that left two men bruised and bloodied around closing time on Nov. 8.

At a hearing before the Boston Licensing Board today, bar attorney - and former city licensing head - Patricia Malone said the bar had been having some issues with young men roaming Washington Street between 1 and 2 a.m.

It was one of several hearings involving Boston bars and violence today.

Police testified that around 1:40 a.m. on Nov. 8 of last year, Napper Tandy bouncer escorted a man out because he appeared to have had too much too drink. Somebody then came up Washington and punched him at least twice, forcing him to the ground, where he opened the back of his head when he hit the sidewalk, police said.

Then, around 2:25 a.m., in another fight that police say may have been related to the first, officers responded to the bar again and found another man at Washington and Basile with cuts on his face from an attack in which three men jumped him and began punching and kicking at him in the middle of Washington Street. One suspect was arrested and charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon - his shod feet.

Also this morning, the board heard that on Nov. 25, two or three men walked into Sonny's Adam Village, 750 Adams St., Dorchester, started looking for a man and when they found him, began beating him - one with a baseball bat or large stick he whipped out from his sleeve. Another patron tried to break up the attack and got several whacks with the bat or stick for his trouble, police said.

On Dec. 11, the board also heard, two men, one possibly more than a bit drunk, got into a fight outside Howl at the Moon, 184 High St., downtown - possibly over who had called an Uber car that had just pulled up.

Also up for a hearing: Hennessy's of Boston, 25 Union St., for an incident around 11:30 p.m. on Nov. 28 in which two men suddenly attacked the bouncers who were escorting them out for being overly annoying. The fighting ball "all fell to the ground" just outside the front door, where a BPD detective was working a detail, a BPD sergeant testified. The detective ordered one of the men to desist and put his hands behind his back, which didn't work and the detective found himself pulled into the fray and down to the ground before reinforcements arrived and placed the two under arrest.

The board decides Thursday what actions, if any, to take on the various incidents.