A Millennium Park regular (no, not Mary Ellen), forwarded this photo she took this morning after she looked over from a parking lot at the old West Roxbury High School and got a bit worried:

Yesterday morning and also this morning, there is a large contingent of folks seemingly training for some big deal. Notably this morning’s cohort is wearing helmets and carrying batons.

BPD Sgt. Det. John Boyle says it was just cadets up from the police academy in Hyde Park, going through normal training, nothing reason for concern:

We usually don’t comment about training. Since it’s in public, it’s our academy recruits standard training while they complete their required classes in the academy.

Police have used the closed school and its grounds for training since BPS closed it in 2018 after declar

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