BOSTON — Only in Mayor Wu’s Boston does a City Hall employee get caught shocking a state trooper with his own Taser before cops pull a fully automatic Glock from under a City of Boston sweatshirt.
The man at the center of the chaos is 25-year-old city worker Nasiru Ibrahim. Police say a routine stop for tinted windows on Old Colony Avenue spiraled into a life-and-death struggle caught on camera.
Dashcam shows a trooper diving headfirst into Ibrahim’s car as he tried to flee. “You’re going to kill somebody!” the cop shouts while wrestling with the gear shift. Moments later, Ibrahim allegedly ripped the officer’s Taser away and fired it into his chest. The trooper says the shock left him in excruciating pain before he punched Ibrahim twice in the face to end the fight.
When the dust settled, officers found the real scandal: a Glock converted into a machine gun with an illegal switch, wrapped neatly in city swag. The weapon wasn’t just illegal—it was a taxpayer-branded embarrassment.
Ibrahim pleaded not guilty to five felony gun charges. Prosecutors wanted him locked up without bail, but a judge set bond at $750,000. His lawyer is already trying to flip the script, saying the stop itself was questionable.
Here’s the kicker—this wasn’t Ibrahim’s first rodeo. Back in 2021, Boston Police arrested him in Dorchester with a loaded pistol and crack cocaine. Gun charges, drug charges, the works. Instead of being blacklisted from public employment, he somehow landed a job with the City of Boston. Four years later, he’s back in cuffs, this time with a machine gun and a viral dashcam video.


And this is hardly the only scandal in Wu’s City Hall. Just this summer, Wu’s $116K-a-year staffer Daunasia Yancey was hauled into court for allegedly attacking her ex’s partner and stealing a safe. She’s still on unpaid leave months later. Two other Wu staffers were fired within days of their own arrests.
The pattern is hard to ignore: one administration, multiple employees arrested on serious charges, and zero answers about how they were hired in the first place.
Wu’s team insists Ibrahim was placed on leave the moment his machine gun bust hit the headlines. But that doesn’t explain why a man with a 2021 gun and drug record was ever issued a city ID badge to begin with.
Boston isn’t just dealing with crime in the streets—it’s dealing with crime on the payroll. Under Wu, City Hall has become a revolving door for scandal, and taxpayers are left asking how many more mugshots it’ll take before the mayor takes responsibility.
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