MA ACLU Hosts Forum On Police Reform, Framingham's Eurie Stamps

FRAMINGHAM, MA — A Monday forum on police brutality in Massachusetts will focus on the case of Eurie Stamps, the Framingham man shot and killed by a member of the city's now-disbanded SWAT team in 2011.

The forum will be sponsored by the ACLU of Massachusetts and Mass. Action Against Police Brutality, and was organized by the #JusticeForEurie group, which reemerged this summer following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Panelists will talk about the Stamps case and other cases of police brutality, plus possible police reform in Massachusetts.

Stamps, 68, died in January 2011 when the SWAT team raided his Fountain Street home. The retired MBTA employee and grandfather was watching a Celtics game when police burst into his home. Police ordered him onto the ground, and Stamps was lying on his stomach when Framingham officer Paul Duncan apparently tripped and fired his rifle, killing Stamps.

The forum will begin at 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 16 featuring Framingham State University professors Patricia Sanchez-Connally and Zeynep Gonen, MA ACLU Racial Justice Program director Rahsaan Hall, Brock Satter of Mass. Action Against Police Brutality, Selvin Chambers from #JusticeForEurie and Stamps' granddaughter, Moriah Leigh Wilkins.

Register for the virtual forum for free.