‘Unjust, Unfair, Racist and Wrong’: Boston Mayor Apologizes to Wrongly Accused Men After HBO Doc Reignites Controversy Over 1989 Murder

In 1989, Charles Stuart shot and killed his pregnant wife Carol and blamed a Black man for it, sending the City of Boston and its police department on a rampage of racial profiling that scarred the city’s Black community and ruined the lives of two wrongly accused men. Thirty-four years later, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu (D) offered those men and their families a formal apology, which was accepted. She stood at a podium in front of the press, with Alan Swanson and the family of Willie Bennett, standing behind her...