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Driver charged with Back Bay hit-and-run that killed bicyclist
By adamg on Tue, 05/09/2017 - 10:02pm
Boston Police report arresting Malone Kidanemariam, 25, for the fatal crash early on April 30 at Commonwealth Avenue and Clarendon Street that killed Rick Archer of South Boston.
Kidanemariam is scheduled for arraignment on a charge of leaving the scene of a fatal accident in Boston Municipal Court tomorrow, police say.
Kidanemariam is a 2010 graduate of Wellesley High School, but police listed Boston as his current residence.
Police found the silver Camry they say hit Archer two days later parked in the Boston Common garage, its front windshield cracked.
Innocent, etc.
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Nice work BPD
Let's hope that 1) they were able to get the right person and get enough on them to make it stick, and 2) actual meaningful justice is served.
For those who are interested, the Ghost Bike and Memorial Ride for Rick Archer is tomorrow night. https://www.facebook.com/events/1482888238451841/
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/05/08/ghost-bike-ceremony-planned...
Justice? Is there any
Justice? Is there any indication that the collision was intentional?
For real
The perpetrator may not have set out that night to mow down a cyclist, but speeding down a city streeet, and hitting and dragging a person is not an 'accident.' fleeing the scene leaving someone to die is a crime. He was either driving recklessly or drunk, so let's hope justice is served and this isn't passed off as an accident.
Mass Bike hashtag
#crashnotaccident
There's a movement to push using the term "crash" over "accident" for these events. If you follow Mass Bike and Richard Fries at all he's definitely an advocate of it.
Listen up kid, a human being
Listen up kid, a human being has been killed, crushed to death, dragged by automobile, aka DIED. This isn't about hashtags. This isn't a game. This isn't virtual reality, this is real fucking life. Grow the fuck up.
Take a deep breath
The person that you're going off on is on your side. This person is pointing out that calling anything but a deliberate attempt to hit someone an "accident" is inappropriate and evades responsibility for negligent actions that lead to a crash. IOW, nothing for you to attack them for.
Well, it is an accident
and I am sure justice will be served.
Not
Only by means of a completely perverted, Humpty-Dumptied meaning of the word "accident".
Accident?
Is punching someone in the face accidental?
Fleeing the scene
Absolutely intentional! No way he didn't know what he did with that broken windshield.
Stop making excuses for deadly behavior.
Exactly
Amazed at the amount of slack being cut for this here
Swirly put down the bike lock...
We do not know if it was intentional, as in, I am going to kill that cyclist right there, right now, woo-hoo. I think what you mean to say is that he knew he hit someone and he decided to high tail it which is a crime and he will be held accountable for.
I wish you bike zealots would stop saying that everytime a frickin driver hits a cyclist it is "intentional."
Intentional hit-and-run
Possibly unintentional hit.
Justice? Is there any indication that the collision was intentio
Dragged and killed the individual and then left the scene. Intention went out the door
Motorist juries
It's definitely good to see an arrest but I think justice remains a long shot.
Cases like this always seem to break down because of the jurors who will sympathize with the motorist unless he was proven to be impaired. The driver probably saved himself by fleeing the scene so that no sobriety test could be conducted.
They forgot the part about "Innocent, etc."
They can't say the guy was responsible when he's only been charged. Only a jury gets to decide that, not the police.
Well
Thanks for the civics lesson, but you might want to add this guy turned himself in.
He still gets a trial, of course.
where'd you get that?
I don't see the reference to him turning himself in. It just says they made an arrest.
Globe Article
The Globe reported he turned himself in. Earlier this morning the article added "turn himself in on police encouragement" but that line has since been edited out so perhaps the kid came to his senses or figured the police where closing in on him.
WBZ radio was reporting this morning
that he turned himself into police after his lawyer "negotiated" with them.
25
He's twenty-five. Not a kid by any definition. An adult who is responsible for his behavior and actions.
Hit & Run Driver
The car was found 2 days after the man was hit. I believe someone noticed the car in the garage and notified the police. So the police were on the trail of finding him. (minus -1 for the BPD)
He turned himself in 9 Days after the accident ! You think he should get " brownie points" for doing this ?
What were the police doing all this time ? Were they "blindfolded" and using "braille" going thru the White Pages trying to find this man ? (minus -2 for the BPD). Seems like they couldn't find this suspect if he was sitting next to them ?
And the Boston Police got a 25.6% raise the last contract, part of which was because they are subject to terrorists now because of the Boston Marathon ??? They are subject to criminals, PERIOD and they know what they are up against when they get the job.
Maybe the Boston Police Dept. can't afford to hire as many "detectives" any more because they got such a big raise ?
Who chose the "arbitrator" for this contract dispute ? Sounds like the police chose him ? What's next ?
Because London and Sweden have had attacks by people in trucks, the police will ask for 15% raise just for that factor. They may call it the "What If" factor !
It sounds like my auto insurance policy. If you car pool and carry co-workers or decide to drive for Uber or Lyft your rates are going to go up !
The reason their wages were SUPPOSED to be reasonable was because they have a pension which is like hitting the Lottery. If the job was SO DANGEROUS, they all would be retiring at the 20 year point.
Well, when the City has no $ to pay these outrageous pensions, we'll have the chance to move to NH to avoid being taxed to death.
It's the police
It isn't their job to introduce reasonable doubt into a case. They find the person they think did it, and say "He did it." It IS their job to say the guy was responsible. Reporters have to remember to use "innocent until," but cops and prosecutors don't.
Police DID NOT say he was 'guilty'
They call him a 'suspect'. Sometimes media and bloggers will push the envelope, but police and prosecutors are careful with the words they use to describe suspects or 'person(s) of interest'.
Yes, they did
Here's the police, saying he's guilty:
Unless you think responsible for means something other than guilty. They aren't supposed to arrest people they merely suspect of committing crimes; they're supposed to arrest people they are convinced are guilty. When they do, they say "He's guilty." When prosecutors present their case in court (and in the media,) they say "He's guilty." They may call him a suspect, but that doesn't mean they're not saying he's guilty.
Cops and prosecutors have to as well
A person is innocent until proven even with cops and prosecutors. Cops find the person who, based on evidence they have, is most likely to have committed the crime. Prosecutors are to then prove that the person committed the crime.
Doesn't mean that either set of people believe the person committed the crime. It's not a question of belief; arrests and prosecutions ideally are based on evidence.
Otherwise anyone could be arrested for any cause just because a cop "believes" a person committed a crime.
Consider the arrest of the reporter for asking Tom Price questions. The the secret
policeservice who arrested him thought he committed a crime? Or the capital cop who arrested a woman for laughing at Jess Sessions at his confirmation. Think the cop really believed the woman committed a crime?The power of police is too great for the reason for arrest to just be belief.
Who's the speaker?
Anybody reporting on it should say "Police say he did it," "He did it, according to police," "he allegedly did it," etc.
The police (and prosecutors), on the other hand, are not going to say that, because they're actually making the claim that he did it. So they're going to say that he is the driver responsible.
Likely METCO program student at Wellesley
His work as a music producer career might be that on youtube as TRPBoston and elsewhere linked to by TrpMaloneTrp.
With driving like this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crWiB3czj_8
Yeah Man
Those evil METCO killers are all just trying to get a good education before they rampage. /s
Counterpoint
Keith Elam better known Guru from the group Blackstar was a METCO student. He went to Cohasset HS (after Nobles) and to the best of my knowledge never killed anyone during his decent music career.
In case you are wondering why I pointed this out, your logic of being a METCO student and then being someone that does a hit and runs does not hold water.
Internet Speak
The /s indicated I was being sarcastic. The anonymous parent post, not so much.
Sarcastic?
Me too.
sweet pedantic points
The /s actually indicated that you were done being sarcastic.
(*deep inhale of smug satisfaction*)
Gang Starr.
Gang Starr.
Bruh Guru wasn't in Black
Bruh Guru wasn't in Black Star, he was in Gang Starr then had a great solo career. Get your facts right.
Sorry
My apologies on not knowing exactly the name of the group an obscure late 80's / early 90's rapper was in.
Not obscure. Unknown... to
Not obscure. Unknown... to you.
Guru
I'm glad you know about Guru. More people should. But the guy was hardly obscure. He's a legend, man.
I think you mean GangStarr,
I think you mean GangStarr, not blackstar
Or..
He could have lived in Wellesley during high school and moved to Boston after graduation. See how easy assumption is? Either way, I don't see how it's the least bit relevant.
Address was Wellesley
Now it is Boston. Learn to read.
Huh?
Adam wrote-
BPD just noted that he was from Boston. Nowhere does it say he lived in Wellesley. I mean, he could have lived in Wellesley, but using my reading skills, there is nothing here or in the BPD release that says that.
I don't understand the link to this video
Can you say more about why you think someone who made or is in this video is connected to the crime?
Am I the only one
...disgusted to see a "group of supporters" flock to his arraignment? What are they supporting, exactly? His bad driving? The fact that he grievously injured another young man and left him to die? Panic in the moment is plausible, albeit reprehensible. But "panic" isn't the word for stashing the incriminating car in a public garage and waiting over a week to come forward. There's another word for that.
Extended family and members of his Ethiopian church
with friends, made up the ~100 supporters according to WHDH.
They also reported that there were two passengers and one of them told police what happened - he panicked and dumped the car. If you watch the video of how TrpBoston rolls, chaos in the car before and when the crash occurred will not surprise you.
Also watching the videos will tell you he was a Boston kid bused out to Wellseley, not a Wellseley kid who moved to Boston.
Sadly, the crash was stupid kids being stupid (and likely OUI of weed and alcohol) when encountering cyclists in black.
25 is not a kid. I am the
25 is not a kid. I am the parent of a 25 year old man and he knows better than to drive while high or drunk.
Not a kid
He's my age, and that's old enough to know better.
Panicked?
For how many days did this panic last?
Cyclists in Black?
WTF? You know this ... how? Or are you just looking for some way to blame the victim and absolve the killer?
Stop making excuses for murderers. Being wasted or young is never an excuse for killing someone with a motor vehicle and leaving and hiding the evidence.
Grow up before you kill someone.
Boy, Swirly, Killers? Murders?
I pray that I never am in a accident with you in the city. Even if it was not my fault, you would lynch me before I even had a trial.
So regardless of who was at
So regardless of who was at fault, is it possible that Rick Archer would be alive now if only this guy stayed at the scene and called it to 911 immediately? I haven't seen a mention of how quickly the emergency personnel were summoned, anyone know?
Ummmm wasn't Archer hit and
Ummmm wasn't Archer hit and dragged? Maybe if the driver stopped when they hit him he would have survived???
What are they supporting?
I imagine they're supporting him personally, and not endorsing his actions, as in, "you may have done something bad, but you're not all alone."
I'm sorry you're unloved.
If one of my parents, siblings, children, or my spouse was in this man's situation, I'd have been at the arraignment. Same goes for a number of other relatives or close friends.
I get what you're saying
but, they're not "supporting" his actions, but him, the person. it sounds like its family and friends who have known him since he was a baby.
what I havent seen is that he has much of a record of doing similarly reprehensible things, so for them its probably pretty hard to just throw away two and a half decades of knowing someone so well. plenty of people accused of crimes have family and friends in the courtroom, its not exactly new.
I get that...
and would understand immediate friends and family being there, but a throng of supporters sends the wrong message. The now deleted tweet someone linked below was a prime example of how distorted the message already is (said something to the effect of "free him, he didn't do anything wrong"). As sad as it might be to find out your friend committed a hit and run, it doesn't change the fact that that is what they did. But this thread is interesting; obviously a lot of people don't see it that way.
no
I don't see people hereclaiming he didnt do anything wrong. This willful misinterpretation of "supporters" is annoying. Yeah, there are probably people who know him (also, other random people who hate cyclists, probably) who really want to believe it was an accident and he didn't have any intention to hurt anyone, but what I'm reading for the most part is that we understand why there would be people at arraignment who "support" him, but not agree with or are somehow happy about what happened.
I'm a cyclist in an incredibly cycling-unfriendly metropolis and I'm as angry and saddened by it as others who recognize that he allegedly committed a terrible, inexcusable crime, but I still understand he has a whole community who knows him more than any of us do. If he is convicted, as long as none of them actually say "it's fine, he didn't do anything wrong", etc.. I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on this one.
Even people accused of premeditated murder sometimes have at least someone in court supporting them, it's not really within our ability to understand their thought processes or rationale, just humans gonna human, you know?
The largest percentage of legal US immigrants are relatives
of legal immigrants and naturalized citizens. They are supporting people in their community, especially coming from a country where Orthodox Christians can be persecuted by Muslims.
Because...
...there are so many Muslims just waiting to persecute Orthodox Christian in the Muslim-majority Boston courts.
Please do pull your bigoted head out of your ignorant ass.
Grab your pitchforks!
Cause this is some absurd shit right here:
https://twitter.com/JamesRosemondJr/status/862268693920796672
Mind-blowing
lack of decency and perspective.
Though, supporters can actually harm a defense more than help it, and this mindset that the suspect is the victim will not help him at trial. But I feel deeply for the cyclist's family and friends who have their suffering compounded by deranged statements like the one linked to above.
According to the suspect's Twitter bio, he's an entrepreneur. Should we expect an Affluenza defense? Oh, and he also wants us to know he's "attractive."
Okay
Your point? There are probably hundreds of apologists for what he did, too. They are crazy, too.
Bottom line: motorists need to be responsible for any consequences of where they choose to steer their vehicles.
Link doesn't work
Marty Walsh is Inflating his Safe Cycling Bona Fides
Marty Walsh is Inflating his Safe Cycling Bona Fides
So wait, people are rallying
So wait, people are rallying to the killer's defense? He knowingly struck an innocent human being then not only did he not try to help this gravely injured man, but he intentionally tried to cover his blood-soaked guilty tracks, ditch the car AND he has a posse of people rushing to his side??? Wow. Sickening.