Katherine Clark's Daughter Arrested During Boston Protest

BOSTON (AP) — The daughter of U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark of Massachusetts was arrested throughout a protest Saturday evening on Boston Frequent and later charged with assault after a police officer was injured.

In a press release on its web site, the Boston Police Division stated the 23-year-old was anticipated to be arraigned in Boston Municipal Court docket.

Clark, the Home Democratic whip, stated in a tweet that her daughter, Riley Dowell, had been arrested. “I like Riley, and this can be a very troublesome time within the cycle of pleasure and ache in parenting,” Clark wrote. “This will probably be evaluated by the authorized system, and I'm assured in that course of.”

Clark has spoken publicly in regards to the fears of her personal nonbinary little one amid bigotry concentrating on transgender individuals.

Police stated officers responded to a report on the Parkman Bandstand Monument positioned throughout the Boston Frequent. They discovered an individual, recognized as Dowell, a resident of Melrose, defacing the monument with spray paint and anti-police phrases, in accordance with police.

In the course of the arrest, “a bunch of about 20 protesters started to encompass officers whereas screaming profanities although megaphones on the general public road inflicting visitors to return to a standstill,” police stated, including that “an officer was hit within the face and might be seen bleeding from the nostril and mouth.”

Dowell was charged with assault via a harmful weapon, destruction or harm of private property, and injury of property by graffiti/tagging, police stated.

A deadly police taking pictures earlier this month in close by Cambridge sparked protests over use of drive. A 20-year-old scholar on the College of Massachusetts Boston, Sayed Faisal, was shot and killed by Cambridge police. He had superior on officers with what police described as a kukri, a kind of sword, and a less-than-lethal “sponge spherical” had did not cease him, police stated.

Clark is in her sixth time period within the Home and represents the state’s fifth Congressional District.