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Boston Scenes

Local and Culturally Relevant Events this week

The Honorable Muscadin Jean-Yves Jason (I), mayor of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is welcomed by Marquis Daniels of the Boston Celtics and founder of the the Q6 Foundation. Daniels’ longtime “giving back to the community resulted in his establishing the Q6 Foundation, which through its Care For Haiti program has been helping the people of this island nation to recover from the devasting earthquake earlier this year. In that spirit, the Foundation honored the mayor at a dinner at The Ritz-Carlton in Boston. (Don West photo, www.donwestfoto.com)

Youth activists pose for a photo outside of Roxbury Crossing. They joined close to 100 people who gathered in response to the recent video which they say shows Boston Police Officer Michael McManus using what many in the community are calling excessive force and brutality to restrain a 16-year-old while other police officers looked on. (Ernesto Arroyo photo)

Kaicee King (far left) celebrated her birthday and Halloween with hundreds of friends and costumed well-wishers last Saturday night at Slade’s Bar and Grille in Roxbury. (Tony Irving photo)

A video of the controversial arrest of a 16-year-old boy at Roxbury Community College was captured by a bystander and posted on YouTube.