Mayor Wu fires Boston worker who tased state trooper, says metropolis knew he had prison document

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu mentioned town will hearth an worker who tased a state trooper, however defended the screening course of that led to his rent and denied seeing the alleged prior violence on his rap sheet because it was described by a metropolis councilor.

Wu mentioned town vetted Nasiru Ibrahim, a 25-year-old property administration worker, however mentioned the allegations a metropolis councilor made this week about his prior prison document — when Ed Flynn mentioned Ibrahim was jailed for 5 years on an alleged assault to homicide conviction — don’t match the paperwork she’s seen.

“There was a screening process, and as I understand it, there’s some clear discrepancies between what some are saying on that record in the media, and what it actually says, and the documents that I have seen,” Wu advised reporters Thursday at an unrelated occasion.

Wu acknowledged town was conscious that Ibrahim, who was arrested after a violent encounter with a State Police trooper final month throughout a routine site visitors cease in South Boston, had a prison document when he was employed.

However the mayor mentioned her administration, which gives ex-convicts with a pathway to get employed by Metropolis Corridor by its reentry providers, “believes in second chances, where appropriate, with the right supports, with the right record, and history of being able to step into positions.”

Nonetheless, Wu mentioned Ibrahim might be fired, citing the unlawful firearm that the state police trooper recovered from the worker’s automobile after he was arrested.

“This individual is in the process of being terminated,” Wu mentioned. “Having an illegal weapon as a city employee or as any member of society is not OK and that certainly disqualifies anyone from being a part of our City of Boston workforce.”

The gun was allegedly loaded and included a Glock swap that converts a semiautomatic weapon into a totally computerized machine gun. It was discovered wrapped in a sweatshirt that Ibrahim had allegedly been sitting on through the site visitors cease. Ibrahim doesn’t have a license to hold in Massachusetts, the police report states.

Town worker’s violent encounter with a State Police trooper was captured on the trooper’s physique cam and cruiser sprint cam, and got here to mild final Friday when it hit the media.

Ibrahim is alleged to have tased the state trooper, who had been compelled to drop his weapon after diving head-first into town worker’s automobile to forestall him from driving off to flee the site visitors cease. Ibrahim had been repeatedly attempting to place the automobile in drive with the trooper’s physique midway into the automobile, whereas the trooper was attempting to place it into park, the police report states.

Whereas Ibrahim copped to having been beforehand arrested on a firearms offense through the site visitors cease, per the police report and video, Wu disputed allegations that his prison document was as critical because it was described this week by Councilor Flynn, when requested whether or not the worker was worthy of being a reentry rent.

“Some of the allegations that I’ve seen describing that in the media so far from others, for example on the city council, do not match the facts,” Wu mentioned.

Flynn had described Ibrahim as allegedly having a “seven-page criminal record, including convictions for assault to murder, charges that led to a five-year prison sentence,” at Wednesday’s Metropolis Council assembly.

He was amongst a trio of councilors who launched a listening to order this week to push for reforms to the Wu administration’s hiring practices, in mild of a slew of metropolis worker arrests on violence-related costs.