“I will not turn a blind eye to domestic violence against Black women, or any woman, for that matter,” acting Mayor Kim Janey said
Many of the allegations stemmed from White’s self-described “difficult relationship” with is first wife, who was also a Boston police officer. The couple had been high school sweethearts, married in 1981 and had two daughters together. They separated in 1995, according to the report, and divorced in 1999.
Between 1998 and 1999, White’s first wife alleged that he had threatened to shoot her, slept with a gun, physically abused her and made her “very scared.” According to the investigation, White’s ex-wife kept a journal during their marriage that she passed to a relative for safekeeping. That relative told investigators that White’s ex-wife had said, “If anything happens to me, I want you to have this diary … If anything happens to me, it would be Dennis.
Internal affairs sustained a finding for neglect of duty and unreasonable judgment, but determined that White had not broken any laws. The Boston Police Department’s domestic violence unit had no records related to the allegations, according to the report.White’s alleged violence wasn’t limited only to his ex-wife—in 1993, he also got into a “physical confrontation” with his niece, one in which White admitted that he pushed her and “struck her with a full swing of his arm and an open hand.
White is painting his firing as an example of yet another Black man being accused of crimes he did not commit, and has in the past . On Monday, White’s attorney Nicholas Carter made that argument in a statement he released, writing, “He is a Black man, falsely accused of crimes, not given a fair trial or hearing, and then convicted, or terminated which is the equivalent here. This reflects an ugly pattern in our country.” Carter added of acting Mayor Janey, “She destroyed a good man’s name and livelihood in the process.
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