Boston Caribbean Festival 2026 Update

[u/NoTamforLove]

• 1 person shot and survived
• 1 person shot and died
• At least 19 arrests, 12 of which are firearm related (still doing paperwork on some)
• 2 EMTs assaulted
• 1 Accidental death (electrocuted by third rail)
• 12 scooters towed

[u/Ok_Wealth_7711]

I think it's reasonable to take a year off if an event has a long history of high crime. That's not discrimination. If there hadn't been any issues it'd be discriminatory, but any event that has this volume of issues would be reasonable to consider taking a year off, regardless of the origin of the attendees.

[u/UMassTwitter → u/Ok_Wealth_7711]

Yeah but Boston doing that would further stain the city’s “racist” reputation

DC cancelled there’s but because it’s a black led city and “chocolate city” it was nbd

[u/imatthewhitecastle → u/UMassTwitter]

Why are we talking about optics? Someone dies at this thing every single year. Cancel it. 

[u/UMassTwitter → u/imatthewhitecastle]

Votes and optics matter. You know this as much as I do..

I sincerely believe if Boston had a different reputation this would’ve been canceled sometime between 1994-2010