The reinstatement was not announced. No press release. No statement. The administration has not said when she returned or on what terms. The only public evidence she is back: the city's Pride Kick-Off page now lists Yancey as the official contact for today's flag raising at Boston City Hall, 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.

The Wu administration kept the original arrest out of public view for three months. No press release, no statement, no coverage in legacy Boston media — until Mass Daily News broke the story that July, in the very first article this outlet ever published.

Yancey is the deputy director of the Mayor's Office of LGBTQIA2S+ Advancement (MOLA) — the same nearly-$1-million-a-year, taxpayer-funded office responsible for nearly every Pride Month controversy Boston has produced in the last six weeks: the $500 wellness vouchers for "LGBTQ+ migrants" that Wu's office later called "inappropriate"; the canceled Trans Period Pride event at the BPL with free catered dinner and free period underwear; and the 19 drag queen story hours for children scheduled across the BPL system.

Prosecutors charged her with one felony count of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon — the wall — and one misdemeanor count of assault and battery. In July 2025, a judge dismissed the felony charge outright. The misdemeanor was continued without a finding — wiped from her record if she completes probation. Her sentence: a no-contact order and anger management. No trial. No conviction. No record.

Mass Daily News reported last summer that Yancey received a 63% raise in her first year on the job — from $71,000 to $116,571 — while she was facing the felony assault charge in court. After her arrest the city placed her on paid leave, then unpaid leave. Her return date was never publicly announced.

Compare that to Chulan Huang — a City Hall staffer arrested one month after Yancey for a less serious incident. The Wu administration fired Huang within days. A judge dismissed his case outright in February 2026 — a cleaner outcome than Yancey's CWOF — and he was never reinstated. Would Yancey have her job back if she were an Asian male staffer with no activist résumé instead of a woke, black, queer BLM Boston founder?

The pattern is not isolated. Up in Maine, the entire Democratic Senate apparatus — Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren — is currently rallying behind 2026 Senate hopeful Graham Platner, despite Platner having had a Nazi SS Totenkopf tattoo on his chest. Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.), who is Jewish, has called the tattoo "personally disqualifying." Schumer, Sanders, and Warren endorsed Platner anyway. The same coalition that spent the last decade calling every Republican a fascist is rallying behind the Senate candidate with the literal SS tattoo.