Cambridge Cop Defends Floyd Criticism as First Amendment Right

Cambridge, Mass., defended in the First Circuit Tuesday its decision to temporarily suspend a police officer who used terms like “druggie” and “career criminal” to describe George Floyd, the Black man murdered by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020, while fellow officers stood by, and onlookers filmed the incident.

In February 2021, Cambridge officer Brian Hussey was put on administrative leave and suspended for four days after he shared on his personal Facebook page a news article reporting on a police reform bill in Floyd’s name and remarked “This is what its come to ‘honoring’ a career criminal, a thief ...