<p>I think so, too. There are a lot of questions that need to be answered and I would think that the police would want those questions answered. Reflection is a good thing, there doesn’t have to be blame involved. I was surprised to hear that suspect 2 was unarmed in that boat, and you do have to wonder what started those cops firing like crazy at the boat. With the number of rounds fired, it’s amazing that he wasn’t found dead and riddled with bullets. </p>
<p>The issue of the perimeter is baffling, and the fact that the Commissioner has now changed his story, even more so. Two other things I wondered about that happened on Thursday night. Where were they between the supposed robbery at 10:30 and the ‘firefight’ at 1 a.m. And how was there a high speed chase when the brothers had two cars? That never made sense to me. Did they hijack the SUV then go pick up their weapons and pressure cooker? Were those things in the other car and they drove the SUV to that car, and that’s where the ‘firefight’ happened?</p>
<p>There seems to not have been a lengthy chase of the suspects into Watertown, instead it was reported that the police found them by the cell phone triangulation of the escaped hostage. If somehow the hostage was not able to run away, the two might later be bombing NY time square as they intended to.</p>
<p>My wife talked to a cop that she met yesterday after the MIT funeral, and he said that all the local cops were ready to kill the guy, they did not care at all and wanted him dead, but the FBI came in and made sure that the protocol was to capture him alive.</p>
<p>Another big criticism was that just a few moments before they cornered the bomber on the boat, the police just issue a rescind of the lock down and let everyone come out and go back to normal. A little embarrassing when a few minutes later, they were shooting up the whole neighbourhood again probably against one unarmed and flail suspect just a few steps away with hundreds if not thousands of police in the vicinity.</p>
<p>No. The SUV took off west on Laurel, ran over the first terrorist and then sideswiped two police cars parked in the road to get out. A;l reports I’ve seen indicate that none of the officers on-scene at the shoot out gave chase to the SUV. </p>
<p>I have seen one report (from a neighborhood resident – unconfirmed) that the terrorist hit a tree and wrecked the SUV, which is when he took off on foot.</p>
<p>“emilybee, no, it was Ed Davis. He said it in an interview with Anderson Cooper.”</p>
<p>Ok. I never heard Davis say that. I only heard the Watertown Chief of Police Deveau say they missed the perimeter by one block. I believe Deveau said it the day after the suspect had been apprehended.</p>
<p>“My wife talked to a cop that she met yesterday after the MIT funeral, and he said that all the local cops were ready to kill the guy, they did not care at all and wanted him dead, but the FBI came in and made sure that the protocol was to capture him alive.”</p>
<p>This! I had a feeling that was the case, and that the same attitude was there when they cornered the brothers in Watertown. I think they were just shooting to kill the two of them. The body of the older brother was supposed to be so bullet riddled that the medical staff could not count how many times he was shot. A departure from how the FBI and others wanted the case handled</p>
<p>A bit OT here, but does anyone have any info as to what happened with Sunil, the Brown student, whose body was just found in the river recently? </p>
<p>I have no idea what happened in the convenience store robbery, the shooting of the MIT officer, or any of these things. the stories all swirl in a way that make no sense to me. I’ll be glad to get a cohesive narrative of events. I get it from the point that the police somehow caught up with the brothers, there was a gun fight and the one got away, right up to the capture from the boat, but those events leading up to Watertown are not at all clear to me.</p>
<p>cpt, apparently the Tsarnaev brothers weren’t actually the ones who robbed the robbery at 7-11, but by incredible coincidence, they were there around the time that it happened. But I’m still not clear how they came into contact with the MIT police officer.</p>
<p>Here are some interesting details, which almost make me think they wanted to get caught. Or else they weren’t the brightest bulbs in the pack; for example:</p>
<p>I think there’s plenty of blame to go around, most likely–starting with the New York Post. But it seems to me that we ought to learn from this that we should hesitate to be so sure that we wouldn’t have messed it up in the same, or even a worse, way, if we’d been the ones who had to decide what to do or what to report.</p>
<p>I don’t think the 7/11 was robbed. I suspect that was actually confused reporting of the SUV owner reporting the car jacking/robbery. He ran to a gas station at the same intersection and called the police saying he had been robbed at gunpoint. That would have generated a dispatch to the intersection for an armed robbery.</p>
<p>Well, the on-line version of the (New Bedford ) Standard Times is reporting that FBI agents are checking the landfill where garbage from the “Chechen apartment” ends up. (The “Chechen apartment” is where people the younger brother hung out with other Russian speakers while he was at college. There are rumors that he stayed there for a time. Two of the occupants have apparently been detained for immigration violations. )</p>
<p>I wonder if the search is “just in case” or they think there is evidence there.</p>
<p>I think the news item that wins the award for misinformation is the captioning that said Zooey Deschannel was a suspect in the Boston marathon bombing.</p>
The mother skipped out on the shoplifting charge. What happens if she comes back? I hope she would be arrested right then and there, although I have read she has been assured that wouldn’t be the case. ? </p>
<p>Katherine Russell (aka Karima) Tsaernaev supposedly left 3 y/o Zahara in the care of her husband while she put in all those hours (70-80/week) as a home health aide. </p>
<p>The family was on welfare until sometime in 2012, when they no longer met income qualifications.</p>