Former BPD Officer Joe Abasciano and Kyle Wayne Culotta upon his release for Worcester House of Correction.
When Boston Police Officer Joe Abasciano posted pro-Trump messages on J6 while off-duty on his anonymous twitter account, it never occurred to him that the Wu administration would one day weaponize his first amendment protected speech against him when he later opposed the Mayor’s vaccine mandate.
Kyle Wayne Culotta sat in jail last year for 125 days after a dangerousness finding. His crime? Travelling across the country with all of his personal possessions (including his firearms). He got pulled over for a simple traffic violation while door dashing to fund his trip.
Four months later he was released when the dangerousness finding was lifted with no explanation or apology.
Both men have learned the hard way that the government doesn’t always need to win its case to send a message.
Abasciano was cleared in two separate investigations. But then the Wu administration launched a third investigation, this time in secret.
“They had no intentions of winning this case but they wanted to send a message…but it was a warning, if you step out of line and you don’t follow 100% everything that Mayor Wu believes, then you will be punished.”
“They ultimately terminated me because of my position on the vaccine mandate…they knew my speech was protected,” Abasciano told us January 6, 2025 in an interview posted below.
Culotta’s case is still pending and he is due in Gardner District Court in early February.
“They want to ruined my life because they say it might save another down the road. They judged me before they even knew who I was and what I stood for. Who are they trying to protect if it’s not me, an American?” Culotta told us in a statement exclusive to 24Beacon.
State Representative John Gaskey called Culotta a “political poisoner” at a State House rally earlier this year as he’s become somewhat of a celebrity in Second Amendment circles.
In an exclusive interview upon his release outside the Worcester House of Correction we asked Culotta what he thought about Massachusetts, “Honestly, the word Nazis. I’ve said Nazis alot lately. Its very fascist, I think its called neo-liberal fascism, its a very strange place.”
Toby Leary of Cape Gun Works, who got banned from YouTube last year for speaking out about civil rights, interviewed Culotta at length Thursday (see interview below) said that many civil rights activists suffer from “Stockholm sydrome” when it comes to Second Amendment rights in the Commonwealth.
Even Culotta’s first attorney told him: “Well you’re in Massachusetts.”
A quip that could have been easily inspired by the classic film line: “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.”
At first Abasciano was forced into involuntary retirement following a finding of conduct unbecoming, but he won a December 2024 ruling finding no just cause for his termination and in November 2025 he won a summary judgment supporting his claim that the Wu administration violated his First Amendment rights.
And even though the former officer won on the principle the case has taken a toll: “The whole process has been unbelievably tough…this was more than a job for me, it was an identity and a calling,” Abasciano said last year.
Abasciano went on offense this week and filed POST Commission complaints against Boston Police Commissioner Cox and five others.
In November 2026, Second Amendment advocates will place a question before the voters to repeal Chapter 135 a recent bill to “modernize firearm laws.”