Radio Roundtable Reacts to Eureka St. Body Cam Footage: Calls for Unity, Accountability, and Lawful Enforcement

Guillermo Creamer, Rev. Dr. Sarai Rivera, and Randy Feldman join Hank Stolz to discuss the ICE arrest on Eureka St., body cam footage, and Worcester’s next steps.

By Hank Stolz | Radio Worcester

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WORCESTER, Mass.-The Radio Roundtable, Guillermo Creamer, Rev. Dr. Sarai Rivera and Randy Feldman, join Hank and “Big” Ben to talk about the release of body cam footage from Eureka St. on May 8th. Creamer said he hasn’t watched a lot of the footage because he finds it so hard to watch. He feels that what happened on Eureka St. is a “traumatic event that happened in our city.” He feels that City Councilor Kate Toomey is trying to “gaslight” the people with her interpretation of events. He feels the narrative of this is anti-cop or pro-police is the wrong conversation to be having. Creamer, who is the new Chair of the Human Rights Commission, said he would like to see the WPD verify when they arrive on scene that those making the arrest are actually federal agents and that what is happening is a lawful arrest. Rivera compared what is happening in Worcester to the Civil Rights movement and the protests that happened. She said she would like to see, and knows that, the city can come together That we have to stop fighting each other. That we cannot fight police, police cannot fight us. That we need to figure out how we unify as a city and figure out who the enemy is. Rivera says we need to fight the real enemy the unlawful practices coming down from the federal government. Randy Feldman disagreed with Creamer and Rivera and said that what was done on Eureka St. was not unlawful. That the legality of what the federal government is doing is impossible to work out on the street while a person is being taken. That we are a nation of laws and it must be worked out through the courts. Feldman says that ICE taking people on the street is something different then their past tactics.

This article was sourced from a transcript of a recent interview conducted by Hank Stolz on the Radio Worcester program Talk of the Commonwealth.