Eddie Walsh, center,  was a veteran Boston cop who took credit, along with FBI Whitey Bulger handler Dennis Condon for recruiting Zip Connolly for the FBI. (Actually, it was U.S. House Speaker John McCormack, a one-time lawyer for the Irish Mob, who put the word in with J. Edgar Hoover.) A few years after this video, when Johnny Martorano flipped, it was Eddie Walsh who was quoted in “journalist’ Mike Barnicle’s column as saying that Martorano used blacks in Roxbury for “target practice,” a statement so inflammatory that the U.S. attorney was forced to denounce it as “madness.” Barnicle “resigned” shortly afterwards.  As Walsh watches at Zip’s 1990 farewell dinner, the gangster FBI agent shakes hands with future BPD commissioner Paul Evans. Whitey’s brother Billy had lobbied with Mayor Ray Flynn to have Zip appointed commissioner of the BPD, but Ray saw that for the “madness” that it was, and instead appointed Mickey Roache, whose brother Buddy was shot and paralyzed by Whitey in 1971. But Zip and the BPD remained tight, as this plaque presentation indicates.