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Boston Mayor Tom Menino: ‘I Will Not Tolerate Civil Disobedience In The City Of Boston’ | After Boston police arrested more than 100 activists for occupying part of the Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston mayor Tom Menino said the activists were “hellbent on pitching tents” in an area that “was not allotted to them.” “I sympathize with their issues, some of those issues we really have to look at in America,” Menino said in the interview with New England Cable News, “but when it comes to civil disobedience, I will not tolerate civil disobedience in the city of Boston.” Watch it:

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