The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts • B1

An annular eclipse was seen at dawn over Plymouth Harbor and elsewhere on the East Coast Thursday morning, reaching it peak at 5.33 a.m. when the moon blocked out close to 73 percent of the sun. Andrea Zachor of Plymouth wore special eclipse glasses to view sunrise. B2. SUNRISE SMILE PHOTOS BY JOHN STAFF By Travis Andersen, John R.

Ellement, and Laura Crimaldi GLOBE STAFF and Jack Lyons GLOBE CORRESPONDENT Police are seeking to bring criminal charges in connection with a high school graduation party last weekend where a 17-year-old boy was pulled from a pool and rushed to an area hospital, authorities said Thursday. In a brief statement, Dedham po- lice said filed com- plaint in Dedham Dis- trict Court. Police said the misde- meanor charges include alcohol to persons under 21 and reck- less endangerment to a The statement did not, however, name the people that police are seek- ing to charge criminally. names of individuals and de- tails submitted to the Dedham Dis- trict Court will not be public until such time as the Court makes a deter- mination of probable cause and con- ducts an the statement said. investigation into this incident remains The victim has been identified by friends and relatives as a 17-year-old Dedham resident who played high school sports, though authorities have not yet confirmed his name.

Officials have said previously that the boy was in critical condition at an area hospital. His current condition DEDHAM, Page B2 Charges sought in pool incident Boy, 17, hospitalized after Dedham party By Emma Platoff GLOBE STAFF As tensions within the Massachu- setts Republican Party rise to a fever pitch, seven former GOP leaders, in- cluding a lieutenant governor and congressman, on Thursday wrote that its chairman, Jim Lyons, has lost his right to lead and that if he will not step down, the Republican State Com- mittee should remove him. Lyons has been criticized by many in his own party for his handling of anti-gay remarks by a fellow Republi- can, aswell as his own attacks onGOP leaders like Governor Charlie Baker, all while the fund-raising lags and its electoral power dwindles. State Committee leaders, we put the party ahead of ourselves. We were not the party.

We were not big- ger than the party. We served the par- they wrote in a letter to the 80-member governing panel. chair who is unable to put thewelfare of the party ahead of his or her own inter- ests should have the decency to step aside, for the sake of the party they claim to serve. If the chair will not, the time has come for the State Com- mittee to The letter was signed by seven for- mer party chairs: Jeanne Kangas; Kerry Healey, a lieutenant governor and gubernatorial nominee; Jennifer Nassour; Brian Cresta; Peter Torkilds- en, a former congressman from the Sixth District; Jean Inman; and Dar- rell Crate. Already a divisive figure in the state party, Lyons has been under fire in recent days for not forcefully con- demning DeborahMartell, an elected Republican leader who told a GOP congressional candidate she was that he and his husband had adopted children together.

After staying silent for days, ignoringmedia requests and calls from some of his fellowRepublicans, Lyons calledMar- remarks but did not call on her to resign, as many top par- ty officials had, saying he refused to bow to And Republi- can critics, many of themmore mod- erate than Lyons, say the chairman has failed the party by failing to fund- raise and recruit strong candidates, as well as applying an overly strict lit- LYONS, Page B3 Ex-GOP leaders call on chairman Lyons to resign ERIN STAFF Jeffrey Sossa-Paquette argued with former radio host Dianna Ploss outside of the Apex Center in Marlborough onWednesday. By Martin Finucane GLOBE STAFF The Depar tment of Publ ic Health says more than 150 cases of the worrisome delta variant of the coronavirus have been found in Massachusetts. National laboratories contracted by the US Centers for Disease Con- trol and Prevention to conduct ge- nomic surveillance have identified the cases, the department said. The findings were from samples collected here as early as March 13 and up until May 23, the DPH said. The DPH noted that the CDC still considers the delta, which was first detected in India, to be a vari- ant of interest, not a variant of con- cern, which is a more urgent catego- ry.

But experts and officials have been expressing worries recently, saying the delta variant is believed to bemore transmissible andmay also make people sicker. Dr. Anthony Fauci, President chief medical adviser for the pandemic, said Tuesday that the delta variant be associated with an increased disease severity such as hospitalization Fauci said the variant is emerging as the dominant in Great Britain, accounting for more than 60 percent of new cases. essentially taking there, Fauci said at a White House corona- virus response team briefing. cannot let that happen in the Unit- ed He also said that in the United States, the variant is already ac- counting for more than 6 percent of VARIANT, Page B4 More than 150 cases of delta variant found in according to DPH INSIDE An option for ballots The Massachusetts House moved to make mail-in voting permanent.

B3. Providence standoff The city wants a group of homeless people to leave a West End lot. B3. Metro THE BOSTON GLOBE FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 2021 BOSTONGLOBE.COM/METRO It is sad but true to realize that the whole country would knowManny Famil- name if he had shot a 14-year-old kid named Troy Love instead of losing his life while trying to save the boy. Alas, the ultimate sacri- fice by theWorcester police officer, drown- ing alongside the teen he tried to save, will barely register outside New England.

That is the reality in this country, where a reckoning on race and power and policing continues to play outmore than a year after George Floyd wasmurdered by aMinneapo- lis police officer whose knee brought the fig- urative weight of the world down on so many. Look at the headlines. The Boston Police Department, theMassachusetts State Police are usually in them for all the wrong rea- sons. Nationwide, police are facing scrutiny, and hostility, like never before. Cops are skittish.

Many are taking early retirement. Those who hate them are em- boldened. Those who, with not a little justi- fication, wantmore accountability are de- manding systemic change. Inmany cities, meanwhile, violent crime is on the rise. Bill Bratton, themost successful Ameri- can police chief of the last half-century, has written a book called Profession: A Memoir of Community, Race and the Arc of Policing in As usual, his timing is impeccable.

For anyone interested in policing, wheth- er you think the hostility police have faced is deserved, unfair, or not nearly enough, it makes for indispensable reading. Bratton has led three of oldest police departments: Boston, New York (twice), and Los Angeles. He brought new ideas to those old departments, using ana- lytics the way baseball nerds study oppo- nents, to better andmore efficiently target crime; implementing his old friend George theory, improv- ing the quality of life in poorer neighbor- hoods by targeting antisocial behavior that would never be tolerated in tony suburbs; and by refusing to engage in zero-sum poli- tics. are parts of any argument where both sides can be he writes. career has been a study in walk- ing in themiddle of the road andmanaging not to get knocked down.

That is, if you leave aside Rudy Giuliani getting rid of himwhen he becamemore popular than mayor. Contrast where the twomen are now. Bratton is the internationally respected po- lice chief emeritus of the United States. Giu- liani is in a photo finish with any number of criminal investigations, the respect he earned after stewarding New York through like his hair dye in the heat of his servile service to Donald Trump. In a small, parochial town like Boston, ambition was widely held against him.

In New York and LA, it was celebrated. While critics claimed Bratton was too wedded to his approach, his success was due in part to a willingness to reconsider tactics. He insists the use of of potential gun-toting sus- pects led directly to themassive drop in vio- lent crime in New York in the 1990s, when there weremore than a year. But he acknowledged it had, 20 years later when there were a few hundredmurders, become overused and engendered justified resentment, especially in communities of color. Before Bratton returned to New York as commissioner in 2014, NYPD conducted some 700,000 searches.

In his first year, that number shrunk to 22,000. But, when we spoke this week, Bratton said the pendulum has swung too far. He be- lieves progressivemeasures aimed at ap- peasing aggrieved interest groups and re- ducing prison populations have left bad ac- tors on the streets, contributing to rises of violent crime inmany pockets of the coun- try. Derek Chauvin, the police officer who murdered George Floyd, the profession back decades, not just here, but around the lost over the last couple of years is he said. reflects the politi- cal divisions in the But he insists the anger that has followed the police killings of Floyd and other Black people obscures the fact that policing, and especially police training, has improved dra- matically since the 1970s.

He has no time for the Defund the Policemovement. anything, we need to re-fund them to get them better he said. In some European countries, police are trained from between a year and three years. In the United States, the training lasts weeks ormonths. want to pay police offi- CULLEN, Page B4 Bratton on policing Kevin Cullen INSIDE Obituaries PAGE B7 ComfortZone PAGE B8 By Camille Caldera GLOBE CORRESPONDENT WORCESTER Enmanuel Familia was one of a kind, a man of pas- sion, kindness, and a fierce per- his brother told mourn- ers at his funeral Thursday.

was the light of our fami- Elvin Familia said in his eulo- gy for the Worcester police offi- cer, who drowned last week while trying to rescue a teenager in distress in a local pond. Enmanuel Familia, 38, and Troy Love, 14, died last Friday af- ter being pulled from the pond. They had been underwater for several minutes. In a homily, Father Diego held up Familia as an ex- ample of selfless service to others and hailed his sacrifice as a erful think about the consequences of jumping into that said. just did Familia leaves his wife of more than two decades, Jennifer, and their two children, Jayla, 17, and Jovan, 13.

An online fund- raiser for the family has raised more than $136,000. In his eulogy, Elvin Familia spoke directly to Jayla and Jovan, telling them they were their fa- precious posses- time he spoke of you, his eyes lit Familia said. know today make any sense, and probably never will, but one thing you can be for sure WORCESTER, Page B4 Worcester officer light of our Brother recalls speaks to family CRAIG F. STAFF Family and friends of Worcester police Officer Enmanuel Familia following the funeral service at St. Catholic Church..