Two people were arrested at the candlelight vigil for Charlie Kirk in Boston on Thursday, police said.
The event held in remembrance of Kirk, the conservative activist who was fatally shot on a Utah college campus, drew a crowd of about 1,000 people who gathered on Boston Common and then marched to the State House.
The first arrest occurred after police officers saw an individual, later identified as Joseph Castrodelrio, 38, using a microphone and speaker to amplify his voice and make “loud proclamations against” people gathered for the vigil, according to a police report.
Officers approached Castrodelrio and “explained to him numerous times” that the vigil was a permitted event and that his continued use of the speaker was considered to be disorderly behavior, according to the police report. He was asked to leave multiple times,
“Conversing with CastroDelrio could be described as a shouting match,” police wrote.
Police escorted him outside the barriers on Beacon Street and unplugged his speaker on the steps near the Shaw Memorial, police wrote.
“As a result of Castrodelrio’s loud and tumultuous behavior, [he] attracted a crowd that included dozens of television cameras and persons recording the incident on their cellphones,” the report said. “Once officers returned to their posts at the steps to the common, Castrodelrio re-plugged in his speaker and began re-broadcasting offensive comments directed at the group peaceably assembled.”
When police approached Castrodelrio a second time and told him that his use of the speaker was in violation of a city ordinance, “he unplugged the device and aggressively continued his tirade while shouting at the top of his voice,” police wrote.
Police warned that he would be arrested if he continued to disturb the peace, but Castrodelrio “continued his loud and aggressive shouting, demanding to see the city ordinance he was violating, accusing officers past and present of crimes, and calling officers names such as fascists, nazis, and white supremacists,” the report stated.
Due to “his ignoring multiple commands to cease his behavior and generally aggressive actions,” Castrodelrio was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and use of a loud amplification device. He was placed in handcuffs and taken to the Nashua Street jail for processing, police wrote.
The second arrest involved a juvenile whose name has not been released.
At approximately 8:20 p.m., officers saw the juvenile face the vigil attendees holding both his middle fingers up and chanting obscenities: “[expletive] you, [expletive] you fascist,” according to a police report.
Police “approached the suspect and explained to him why he needed to leave [the] vigil area and conduct his protest outside the fenced-in area,” the report said.
As the juvenile was being led outside the vigil area, he allegedly punched someone wearing a red “Make America Great” hat in the right arm, police said.
Police arrested the suspect, who was found to be carrying a 7-inch bowie-style hunting knife, on charges of disturbing the peace, assault and battery, and carrying a dangerous weapon, police wrote.
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