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...

BOSTON (WHDH) - The family of one of two Black men wrongfully accused in the 1989 murder of Carol Stuart came together Thursday to reflect one day after Boston Mayor Michelle Wu issued an apology on behalf of the city. Willie Bennett’s family was in tears sitting on stage together at Roxbury Community College. While they said they don’t like to talk about their experience, family members said change will not come if they stay silent. “This was something that ate at me and bothered me,” said Willie’s nephew, Joey...

On Dec. 20, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu issued a public apology to Alan Swanson and Willie Bennett, two Black men who were wrongfully arrested in connection to the murder of a pregnant white woman in 1989. The incident exacerbated existing divides in a city already fractured along racial lines and re-ignited distrust and frustration between the Black community and the Boston Police Department. “We are here today to acknowledge the tremendous pain that the city of Boston inflicted on Black residents throughout our neighborhoods 34 years ago,” Wu — Boston’s...

BOSTON -- Boston Mayor Michelle Wu issued a formal apology Wednesday to two Black men who were wrongly accused in a 1989 murder of a white woman, a case that coarsened divisions in a city long split along racial lines and renewed suspicion and anger directed at the police department by the city's Black community. "I am so sorry for what you endured," the mayor said during a news conference. "I am so sorry for the pain that you have carried for so many years." Alan Swanson and Willie Bennett...

ANNOUNCEMENT. SARA. WELL, THE OFFICIAL APOLOGY MADE TO THESE TWO MEN, BUT IN MANY WAYS, MAYOR WU’S GESTURE WAS ALSO TO THE BLACK COMMUNITY, MANY WHO SUFFERED THROUGH THAT PERIOD OF TIME UNDER SUSPICION DURING A POLICE MANHUNT. THE FAMILIES SAY THE PUBLIC ACCUSATION HAS STAYED WITH THEM FOR DECADES, AND A RECENT DOCUMENTARY AND THIS APOLOGY ARE HELPING TO CHANGE THE NARRATIVE. WE DID THAT FAMILY. WE DID THAT. WE DID THAT DURING THE TIME THE FAMILY OF WILLIE BENNETT MARKING A LONG SOUGHT AFTER GOAL TO RIGHT A...

BOSTON .- The mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu offered a formal apology Wednesday to two black men who were wrongly accused of the 1989 murder of a white woman, a case that deepened divisions in a city long divided along racial lines and renewed suspicions and the anger of the black community against the police department. “I am very sorry for what you had to endure,” the mayor said during a press conference. “I am so sorry for the pain they have carried for so many years.” Alan Swanson and...

More than 34 years after Alan Swanson and Willie Bennett were wrongfully arrested and accused of committing a crime that shocked the city, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu issued a formal apology to the two men. At a Wednesday press conference at City Hall, Wu issued an apology to the two Black men who were linked to the murder of Carol Stuart, a pregnant woman who was shot and killed by her husband, Charles Stuart, on Oct. 23, 1989. “I am so sorry for the pain that you have carried for...