BOSTON (WHDH) - Boston community leaders met with the FBI to discuss growing concerns after two white nationalist groups who targeted events in Boston last month.
The Black clergy leaders, Suffolk County District Attorney and the FBI met at the Twelfth Baptist Church in Roxbury to lay the groundwork for information sharing and ways to keep Boston safe.
On July 23, a Neo-Nazi group held a demonstration outside an LGBTQ event in Jamaica Plain, only a couple of weeks after a white supremacist group marched down the Freedom Trail attacking a Black man.
“We start today as brothers and sisters in faith in partnership with so many others, of goodwill to say that we stand against white supremacists, we stand against white supremacy, and we stand against the violence in this city,” said Revered Willie Bodrick II of the Twelfth Baptist Church Senior Pastor.
Bodrick said communication between city officials and community members is key to keeping the people of Boston safe.
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