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South Campus Domino’s Pizza robbed by armed suspect Jesús Marrero Suárez Madhri Yehiya Tanisha Bhat Daily Free Press Staff An armed individual stole a pizza from the Domino’s Pizza at 508 Park Dr. in South Campus at approximately 2 p.m. Wednesday. The suspect was described “as a male, dark skin with facial hair, late 40’s early 50’s 508-510 in height, wearing a dark colored hooded sweatshirt, dark pants, wearing a fanny pack” in a Boston University Police Emergency Alert sent to the BU community at 2:46 p.m. The alert said the armed robbery created “significant police activity” in the area and also advised students to be cautious. BUPD also said those in the area
should exercise increased caution while the individual remains at large, having fled the scene towards Brookline on Buswell Street after the robbery. As of an emergency alert update sent at 5:37 p.m., the suspect had not been apprehended. A Domino’s worker who wished to remain anonymous due to contractual obligations banning them from speaking on behalf of the corporation, said they were witness to the man walking into the restaurant, grabbing a pizza left inside and promptly exiting. “I saw him going out with the pizza, so I tried to call him and he just walked out,” they said. “The drivers went after him, and he pulled a gun on the driver.” The worker noted Boston Police Department officers arrived within minutes, asked routine questions and left about 10 minutes later. The restaurant was back in business by
4:40 p.m. “It was not a big deal,” he said. “If the drivers hadn’t gone after the guy, nothing would have happened. He would just have stolen a pizza.” Rich Gbessi, a sophomore in the College of Communication and resident of South Campus said the robbery did not make him concerned. “I wouldn’t expect a college campus to get robbed but I mean, it happens, because robbers don’t care where anything’s located. So you can’t really blame the college or anything,” he said. “S— just happens.” Gbessi added the incident does not change his impression of South Campus and that he will continue to be a customer at the Domino’s in question. “I grew up in the Bronx, so I’m getting used to robberies happening around the city,” he said. BU spokesperson Colin Riley said it is not advised for witnesses to get involved in situations such as this. “We don’t encourage anyone to in-
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Domino’s Pizza at 508 Park Dr. An armed individual stole a pizza from the restaurant at approximately 2 p.m. Wednesday before fleeing toward Brookline on Buswell Street.
tervene in a situation, we want them to protect themselves and others,” he said. “Call BUPD and or 911.” Police presence was recorded around the store at 4:45 p.m. Riley added the area will now receive increased monitoring.
“There’ll be extra patrols, BUPD in the area,” he noted. “It’s very likely they won’t be the only ones patrolling the area. There’s lots of law enforcement, from state police, transit police, Brookline, Boston, that go through campus on a regular basis.”
Boston Marathon pushed to same day as Indigenous Peoples’ Day, sparking concerns of obscured holiday attention to colonialism. Executive director of Wings for America — a nonprofit that supports young Native runners — and Navajo Nation member Dustin Martin said he initially believed running the marathon on Indigenous Peoples’ Day was a chance to honor the legacy of past Native champions. “But the more that I learned about the way that the Boston Marathon initially kind of dismissed the criticisms of the Indigenous community in the Boston area, I realized that they were not very sensitive or really graceful in the way that they recognized the holiday,” he said. Pierite said NAICOB, United American Indians of New England
and various town committees set forth demands for the BAA to address their rescheduling in the spring of 2021, but Pierite added that how the BAA scheduled the marathon was “harmful” and “done with very little consultation.” The BAA expressed their apologies in an August press release to those “who have felt unheard or feared the importance of Indigenous Peoples’ Day would be erased” and said in selecting the date the Association “in no way wanted to take away” from the holiday. They did not respond to email and phone requests for comment on this article in time for publication. The BAA also donated to the Indigenous Peoples’ Day Newton
Committee to help fund their firstever celebration, according to the release. Additionally, before the start of the race, an acknowledgment ceremony of the course’s path through Native land took place. Robert Peters, a Mashpee Wampanoag artist, painted a BAA-commissioned mural highlighting Indigenous history in the Boston Marathon in the land acknowledgment ceremony. Five Indigenous runners were included on that mural canvas, including Ellison “Tarzan” Brown, Patti Catalano Dillon, Tom Longboat, Andrew Sockalexis and Jordan Marie Daniel. “I insisted that I wanted to paint ‘Tarzan’ Brown,” Peters said. “He was
the only one that was painted and the other ones were cutouts that were glued over the work.” Cici Yu Martin said early conversations Daily Free Press Staff with a BAA representative, who said the organization was considering doing more to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day, provided The 125th Boston Marathon, the opportunity to recognize the postponed from its typical date on history of champion “Tarzan” Brown Patriots Day, was moved to the same specifically — a member of the Monday as Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Narragansett tribe who won the 1936 prompting concerns from Indigenous and 1939 marathons. advocates on the overshadowing of “It’s always frustrated me that there the holiday. is no monument to Tarzan Brown on Though the second Monday of Heartbreak Hill and Newton,” Martin October was previously recognized by said, noting Brown’s victory over other cities and states as Indigenous Johnny Kelly in the 1936 race. “There Peoples’ Day to celebrate Indigenous are actually two statues of Johnny communities, Acting Mayor Kim Kelley in that section of the course, Janey recognized the holiday in but no mention permanently of Boston via an Oct. 6 executive Tarzan Brown, the person who order, making Oct. 11 the really gave that area of the course first Indigenous Peoples’ Day its famous name.” officially observed by the City. For Peters, land The order came after the acknowledgment in a ceremony Boston Athletic Association isn’t enough. He said giving rescheduled due to COVID-19 Indigenous populations more in a January announcement. sovereignty would truly be a Jean-Luc Pierite, a member recognition of Native history. of the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of “If they really wanted to Louisiana and president of the acknowledge the land, they North American Indian Center would give it back,” he said. “They of Boston, said the executive would give us back land and give order affirms Indigenous us back control over things that sovereignty and acknowledges we had.” colonial violence’s specific Pierite said he also wanted to impact over the past centuries. caution that changes the BAA “It’s not just the holiday, it’s made should not act as a “onenot just about taking down and-done” situation. Columbus Day,” he said. “But it “I’d like to see a land is an affirmation of sovereignty acknowledgment at every Boston and it lays out several action Marathon because the Boston steps as well for Indigenous Marathon is still running through community members to better Indigenous territories,” he said. relationships.” “It starts in Hopkinton, in the Some Indigenous territory of Nipmuc, and it ends Bostonians, however, said COURTESY OF CSUF PHOTOS VIA CREATIVE COMMONS in Boston, in the territory of the the Boston Marathon A woman dancing in an Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebration. Indigenous advocates in the Boston area voiced concerns over the signifi- Massachusett. It’s something that overshadowed efforts to draw cance of the holiday being overshadowed by the 125th Boston Marathon, both of which occurred Monday. should be ongoing.”