Patricia Lio/Photo Courtesy of Boston Globe Staff
In Milton, Massachusetts, a white female police officer will face charges after threatening her son’s Black teenage friend during an argument over the Black Lives Matter movement. According to the Boston Globe, Patricia Lio also physically attacked her husband, who tried to diffuse the situation, and will be prosecuted for assault to intimidate and assault with battery.
On September 17, Lio’s son hosted a sleepover where he invited his 14-year-old friend and another Hispanic teen to their Westwood, Massachusetts home. During a family watching of a Boston Celtics game, the teens allegedly heard Lio, 52, discussing Black Lives Matter and calling it “phony,” the Boston Globe
reported.Lio entered the room with her son and his friends and began pressing them about their views on Black Lives Matter and defunding the police. She then became so heated by the responses, that she turned her frustration to her husband when he tried to de-escalate the argument. Police say that Lio punched him in the face, which caused bleeding.
The bigoted broad confronted the unnamed black teen directly by getting in his face and clenching her fists, according to the Boston Globe. Lio also allegedly told her son’s friends, “If you support Black Lives Matter, get the [expletive] out of my house,” police said according to the Boston Globe.
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Boston.com reported last Thursday that Beth Cook, an assistant clerk magistrate ruled that Lio will face charges for the September altercation, both for threatening her son’s black friends over Black Lives Matter and assaulting her husband.
Following testimony from Lio, her husband, one of her sons, and a sergeant, Assistant Clerk Magistrate
ruled, “After consideration of the evidence put forth by the accused, I find that the witness testimony she presented does not disprove the evidence put forward by the Westwood Police.”Lio, who has been a Milton Police Department officer since 2002, has been on paid administrative leave since October. An internal investigation is currently pending.