A Stoughton man is facing charges after he “violently resisted arrest and injured police officers” who were trying to book him during an investigation into shots fired in Boston last weekend, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday.
Joshua Cooper, 36, has been charged with assault and battery on a police officer, resisting arrest and four gun offenses in connection with the incident, the district attorney’s office said in a press release.
On July 26, Boston police responded to a report of gunfire at 32 Gleason St. in Dorchester around 3 a.m. and discovered a large group of people congregated in the street, the district attorney’s office said. Soon, Cooper walked up to the officers with his left hand inside his pocket and asked, “Do you want to see my badge?”…