Former Boston police commissioner knocks Mayor Wu in ‘war’ over North End outdoor dining

William Gross, the first Black commissioner of the Boston Police Department, says he’s feeling “perturbed” that the North End, filled with Italian restaurants, is being singled out with heavy restrictions on outdoor dining. Gross remembers arriving in Boston from rural Maryland as a youngster with his family in 1975, when forced busing existed in the city and his mother told him where he could go and not go. But Gross also looks back at how attitudes across the city shifted throughout his 38-year career in the police force, the last...