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Boston: One dead, one captured, city re-opened

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This shot and the shot of him on the ground depresses me. He still looks very much like a child and it's sombering to see the accumulation of terrible decisions by him leading up to this shot.

I hope we find out what pushed him and his brother to commit these heinous crimes.

he did run over his own brother
 
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I just heard an explosion
in my pants
 
This shot and the shot of him on the ground depresses me. He still looks very much like a child and it's sombering to see the accumulation of terrible decisions by him leading up to this shot.

I hope we find out what pushed him and his brother to commit these heinous crimes.

I think extreme religion pushed his brother and his brother pushed him. The younger kid clearly didn't have this as his intentions.
 
Not sure if this picture is real. Suspect #2 getting out of the boat.

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Edit: My bad, I didn't see the other image because I block Twitter requests from sites that are not Twitter and the thread is moving fast.
 
It could have been a high calibur bullet graze. Also looks like a bullet wound below the gash.
Yeah, I don't think it was a thoracotomy. I am no doctor, but it would appear to me that if one had made an incision and then widened it like is usually the case, then the skin would kind of retract back enough after widening, to stitch-up. Guy's cut is fucking huge, and this skin around the edges of the cut are all jagged; not to mention all the charred discoloration on his ribs (?)
 
there was just a pretty good discussion on the internet's role during this on MSNBC now, talking about the crowdsourcing and investigating. Chris Hayes' show.

Did they mention how incredibly wrong 4chan/Reddit were the entire time and actually were more of a detriment than an asset?
 
Depends on how much you respect your brother's opinions. I have 2 of them and I'd be lying if I said that they haven't had a fairly significant influence on me and my decisions in life. Some were pretty damned important.

Sure, but hopefully your moral compass kicks in and guides you down the right path if confronted with the possibility of killing innocent people.

"I've started the timer on the bomb. Plant it or be blown up yourself."

I'm giving humans the benefit of the doubt, but I'm assuming most of us would go out of way to prevent hurting other humans. Even in such a dire situation.
 
This shot and the shot of him on the ground depresses me. He still looks very much like a child and it's sombering to see the accumulation of terrible decisions by him leading up to this shot.

I hope we find out what pushed him and his brother to commit these heinous crimes.
I completely agree and I almost pity him in a way. From being described as a "walking angel" to now this. A life wasted.
 
I can't imagine the conflicting of emotions that the people who are treating him must be having. They surely must want him to not save his life, and yet keeping him alive is the most valuable thing to do.

Sounds easy to me if your job is to save people's lives no matter what.
 
Sure, but hopefully your moral compass kicks in and guides you down the right path if confronted with the possibility of killing innocent people.



I'm giving humans the benefit of the doubt, but I'm assuming most of us would go out of way to prevent hurting other humans. Even in such a dire situation.

the way it exploded, i'd assume dropping it in a trash can or some other container to contain the explosion and shrapnel would have been a good first step vs leaving it next to children and teenagers
 
there was just a pretty good discussion on the internet's role during this on MSNBC now, talking about the crowdsourcing and investigating. Chris Hayes' show.

It was great. Made me realize that -- as media quality improves and online storage capacity grows to pretty much infinity -- historians in the far future may be able aggregate all the video and sound data to run a near-perfect simulated recreation of just about any notable (future) historical event from just about any human-reachable angle so long as people record it. (And they will.)
 
This shot and the shot of him on the ground depresses me. He still looks very much like a child and it's sombering to see the accumulation of terrible decisions by him leading up to this shot.

I hope we find out what pushed him and his brother to commit these heinous crimes.

I'm just 10 days older than him so I definitely agree with this comment. Such a shame. Nothing can justify what he already did, but I'd very much like to at least see why.
 
Yeah I recognize this. It would take a giant leap of faith for me to believe (or anyone) that he didn't know there was a bomb in the bag. That would be an interesting twist, though. At this point I'm mainly thinking of how much or how little he has done the last night or two.

I guess I'm having trouble swallowing that someone so "normal" could do this. It's hard.

Who knows what he had going on underneath being 'normal', we can only speculate at this point.
 
Is anyone else expecting some "Dark Knight" esque civilian attempts to kill this guy? Boston does not seem like the type of city to just let the courts handle this. Obviously he's going to be under crazy protection and surveillance, but the next couple weeks are going to be crazy interesting.
 
Is anyone else expecting some "Dark Knight" esque civilian attempts to kill this guy? Boston does not seem like the type of city to just let the courts handle this. Obviously he's going to be under crazy protection and surveillance, but the next couple weeks are going to be crazy interesting.

I'm more worried about innocent people.
 
Is anyone else expecting some "Dark Knight" esque civilian attempts to kill this guy? Boston does not seem like the type of city to just let the courts handle this. Obviously he's going to be under crazy protection and surveillance, but the next couple weeks are going to be crazy interesting.

Based off... what exactly?

You guys are trying to make this more "interesting" than it actually will be.
 
the way it exploded, i'd assume dropping it in a trash can or some other container to contain the explosion and shrapnel would have been a good first step vs leaving it next to children and teenagers

Sure, or run out into street where the runners were away from the crowd people. Anything to get it away from people. Fuck or even say you have a bomb so people clear out.
 
Is anyone else expecting some "Dark Knight" esque civilian attempts to kill this guy? Boston does not seem like the type of city to just let the courts handle this. Obviously he's going to be under crazy protection and surveillance, but the next couple weeks are going to be crazy interesting.

Nah I think it'll be okay here. I feel people generally respect the law and the police here (as witnessed by everyone actually taking the "optional" lockdown very seriously in proper Boston). I hope so at least!
 
Is anyone else expecting some "Dark Knight" esque civilian attempts to kill this guy? Boston does not seem like the type of city to just let the courts handle this.

I think Boston is exactly the type of city to let the courts handle it. What could be more patriotic than due process and proving beyond a reasonable doubt that he needs to be punished? Sounds silly, but it's true.
 
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