BOSTON – Three bipartisan Worcester state senators are calling on the state attorney general to appoint a special investigator to look into the death of Massachusetts State Police recruit Enrique Delgado-Garcia . At the same time, the ACLU of Massachusetts wants the FBI to get involved in the case.
The I-Team was first to report that Delgado-Garcia, a recruit at the Massachusetts State Police Academy was seriously injured in a boxing exercise. The I-Team has been digging into the history of the training facility and found other troubling cases.
Previous incidents at Massachusetts State Police Academy
No one was injured during what was called the “slip ‘n slide” at the academy in 2021 . The recruit hijinks was just silly shenanigans.
But the I-Team found state police training has a darker history, involving allegations of hazing and harassment.
In 2005, an investigation found an instructor pushed recruits’ heads into toilet bowls as punishment. In 2022, 20 recruits suffered serious burns on their hands after instructors had them bear crawl on hot pavement.