Gov. Healey to give update on street takeover crackdown: Watch live at 12

Gov. Maura Healey says she will provide an update Wednesday on enforcement efforts related to illegal street takeover and car meet-ups taking place across Massachusetts.

The governor and Massachusetts State Police Col. Geoffrey Noble will speak at 12 p.m. at the State House. You can watch it live in the video player above.

Healey held a press conference last week to announce that she was ordering state police to crack down on these types of incidents.

She said at the time that she had directed Noble to make sure state police resources are used to work with local police departments to apprehend and punish offenders. She said the state would also be monitoring online conversations about these meetups through the Commonwealth Fusion Center and other available avenues.

“No more. No more,” Healey said last week. “You will be held accountable.”

“I just want to be really clear,” she added. “Do not engage in that behavior. Anyone who engages in that conduct will be found and will be held accountable to the furthest extent of the law.”

Mssachusetts leaders are condemning incidents of violence, but also calling on the Trump administration to stay away as the president attempts to deploy the National Guard to other cities.

Noble said last week that combatting the incidents would take a thoughtful approach that digs into drivers’ motivation.

“We have to look at this from a pre-event posture and try to intercept it before it happens,” he said.

Healey’s news conference last week came on the heels of several street takeovers held earlier this month, including one in Boston and others in Brockton, Fall River, Middleborough and Randolph.

Shortly after 2 a.m. on Oct. 5, Boston police responded to a report of a “large-scale vehicle takeover” at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Tremont Street, and arrived to find a crowd of over 100 people, who allegedly started attacking marked police cruisers by throwing fireworks, cones, poles and other objects. Two people were arrested.

It was chaos in the streets overnight in Randolph and Boston. Two separate towns, two violent cruiser takeovers. Now two men are facing serious charges.

That incident happened around the same time as a vehicle takeover about 15 miles south, where masked individuals set off fireworks and attacked Randolph police cruisers there as officers attempted to break it up.