Why does Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox keep trying to protect certain very dodgy police officers, at least if they happen to be… a certain type of cop?

Triston Champagnie, Kelly Dever and now a guy by the name of Bryan Augustine.

After skating on all charges since he went on the job in 2018, the BPD has finally, if belatedly decided to (sort of) discipline Augustine.

And it all occurred just as a 34-year-veteran Boston police captain was filing a lawsuit against Cox and the BPD, in which he accused them of trying to force him to broom one of the many cases against Augustine.

The reason Cox et al. wanted the charges reduced against their favorite cop?

According to the lawsuit, it was so that Augustine’s certification wouldn’t be pulled by the Mass Police Officers Standards and

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