The Boston police union may have a point about the lack of prosecution of anti-cop rioters in and around the city.

Larry Calderone, president of the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association, had in mind the two young men who were arrested during a riotous illegal car hookup in the South End last week.

They are Rhode Island residents William Cantwell, 19, of Warwick and Julian Bowers, 18, of Cumberland, who are charged with assault and battery of a police officer, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and the malicious destruction of property.

That property happened to be a $60,000 Boston police cruiser equipped with computers and other technology that was smashed and torched.

The case is different from the following pro-Palestinian riot that took place in sight of the State House Tuesday n

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