Reverend Kevin Peterson called the City of Boston’s $150,000 settlement payment to two Black men wrongly accused in the 1989 Carol Stuart murder a “pittance” that reflects decades of disrespect to the black community as it relates to the case.

Peterson, founder of the New Democracy Coalition and organizer of the Boston People’s Reparation Committee, said Tuesday that while no dollar amount would have made up for the past harm caused by the city’s actions, “a settlement that reaches into the millions” would have been “appropriate.”

“The city’s offer is just another expression of injustice to these two gentlemen who were innocent of the allegations made against them,” Peterson told the Herald. “The embarrassment and the insult that they suffered can never be monetized in any specific way,

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