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With the Celtics' playoff run coming to an end, and the Patriots and Red Sox finishing the weekend strong, it was a real mixed bag in the world of Boston sports over the weekend.

Writing Monday on WBUR's ideas and opinion page, Cognoscenti, former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick says this: "Enough.... Policing in America has to change for peace in America to exist." He joins Radio Boston.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, complaints about rats and mice in neighborhoods all over the city have spiked.

Plus, on Friday AG Maura Healey's office brought new criminal charges against the leaders of the Holyoke Soldiers' Home for their role in the nursing facility's COVID-19 outbreak.

Plus, how the news that none of the officers involved will be charged over Breonna Taylor's killing is reverberating in Boston.

Much of the nation is reeling from the news that the officers who killed 26 year-old Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky this spring will not be charged.

We hear from Watertown's Superintendent Dede Galdston, and from WBUR's Max Larkin.

After hinting at the decision last week, Councilor Campbell -- whose district includes parts of Dorchester, Mattapan, Roslindale and Jamaica Plain -- made it official in a video released Thursday morning.

Plus, six months into the isolation of pandemic life, how can we fulfill our social needs while still protecting ourselves and each other from the pandemic?

At-home pickling products have become the new paper towels; there's a shortage of jars and lids.