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Episode Nineteen | Victoria Snelgrove: No Triumph, All Tragedy, Boston, Massachusetts
On Oct 20, 2004, the Red Sox clinched the championship and were headed to the World Series after a tense series against the New York Yankees - our bitter rivals. We hadn’t won in 86 years thus perpetuating the "Curse of the Bambino". Despite the game being played in New York, people from all around flooded into the streets and headed to Fenway Park. What should have been a grand celebration turned tragic when an unprepared police department pulled out riot gear to fend off swarms of revelers. A Boston police officer shot an innocent bystander - 21-year-old Emerson College student, Victoria Snelgrove - in the face.
Everything is lethal if you don't know what you're doing.
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Riot images
Cops Across U.S. Are Using 'Less-Lethal' Weapons. In Boston In 2004, A Woman Was Killed With One
https://www.wbur.org/news/2020/06/10/rubber-bullets-protesters-victoria-snelgrove-boston
Archived Student Remembered As A Bright, Budding Journalist Raja Mishra and Julie Polovina, Boston Globe
Video Of Victim Comforts, Pains As Family Still Grapples With Loss
Megan Tench, Boston Globe May 3, 2005
Victoria E. Snelgrove, 21; Had Passion For Journalism Emma Stickgold, Boston Globe; Oct 25 2004
Commission Report: Victoria Snelgrove https://web.archive.org/web/20110610210149/http://www.cityofboston.gov/police/pdfs/report.pdf
State Findings In Victoria Snelgrove case
https://web.archive.org/web/20051226021746/http://www.mass.gov/da/suffolk/docs/091205.html
Boston Globe - Snelgrove panel rips police
Faulty planning, lack of judgment in effort to control crowd found
http://archive.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2005/05/26/snelgrove_panel_rips_police
Links
Torie Fund - https://www.victoriasnelgrove.com
WBUR - Ten Years After: Victoria Snelgrove
https://www.wbur.org/news/2014/10/21/victoria-snelgrove-anniversary
Boston Herald - The Snelgroves share memories of Torie 9 years later
Tragedy in Boston: The impact projectile death of Victoria Snelgrove
New York Times - Bill Buckner Obituary https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/obituaries/bill-buckner-all-star-shadowed-by-world-series-error-dies-at-69.html
Fox Sports - 30 years after Buckner’s error extending the curse
Red Sox
https://mentalitch.com/the-history-of-the-boston-red-sox/
https://www.si.com/mlb/2018/10/20/boston-red-sox-world-series-history-wins-record
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Boston-Red-Sox
Mayor Kim Janey https://mayorjaney.com