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Boston: One dead, one captured, city re-opened
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Aika'svyse
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Well it took a lot of posts before the thread has become almost intolerably silly.
NullPointer
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So wait, the second suspect is only 19 years old?
19?
Jesus.
19?
Jesus.
MiamiWesker
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But what about before when we had hundreds of police, cameras everywhere, helicopters I assume all chasing the guy last night. WTF happened? How many times have you ever seen a major police chase end with "ughhhhh we lost him, lets close the city."
Everyone in the country knows what he looks like, he literally can't do anything, I don't get it.
ZanzibarBreeze
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How does CBS reconcile that with the fact that the dude was pictured in a 7-11? I guess he could have just shopped there without robbing it. Huge, bizarre coincidence, though.
wut. Don't we have surveillance footage?
It's like some people are incapable of making rational distinctions.
The Albatross
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WBUR/NPR reported this morning that 15 officers were hospitalized for injuries after last night's shoot out.
A cop was killed from MIT, and a Mass Transit officer is in critical condition after being shot.
Naked Snake
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Not if you had hydroponic weed plants growing in the closet.
That may well be true, but I take offense to a left-wing Israeli newspaper tut-tuting us from the sidelines.
This has been one of the most surreal days of my life. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev actually goes to my school (UMass Dartmouth) and was in class on Tuesday apparently. Campus was evacuated, SWAT and Bomb Squad got brought in, the whole school is closed off, one of the history professors at my school, who's an expert in Central Asian terrorism, has been interviewed a lot today. We've got Black Hawk helicopters on campus and they're searching every dorm room for possible explosives. I'm really glad I didn't have class today. It's way too much to take in as it stands now and I didn't even need to head down there today.
Also, the MIT cop who was killed was someone my girlfriend actually knew. Her aunt actually tried to set her up with this guy on a date before she had met me.
Also, the MIT cop who was killed was someone my girlfriend actually knew. Her aunt actually tried to set her up with this guy on a date before she had met me.
cicero
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For some people of a certain political bent, that scenario still isn't justification enough, the whole system being wrong/evil and all, y'know.
MMBosstones86
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damn have to head home now. Shame nothing happened today.
Troll on GAF....troll on
Troll on GAF....troll on
Well the cop was probably seen from their minds as an enemy combatant, while the unarmed hostage was seen as a regular civilian. It's easier to kill faceless civilians in a bombing than it is to directly fill a hostage with lead face to face maybe?
I think it was just assumed not explicitly connected because the images came out without context.Wait, isn't this image from the 7-11 robbery though
mugurumakensei
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My roommate at the time went on a hunting trip with three others guys. Two were discussing going to Pakistan and training to be part of Al Qaeda. One of the four (not my roommate and not the two would be terrorists ) wore a wire. My roommate was found guilty of weapon possession while not a legal citizen. The two would be terrorists went to jail for their conspiracy. This happened Dec 06. It was a big story in Dallas ( I was a student of UTD and lived on campus so obviously my roommate was too ) and Houston (the two would be terrorists were leaders of the Houston CAIR branch at the time.
Demoncarnotaur
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Wait, isn't this image from the 7-11 robbery though
Maybe they just happened to be there when someone else robbed it? Lol, otherwise, its related.
archnemesis
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There is a large gash trough the rib cage, several gun shot wounds, and plenty of blood. I didn't find it that disturbing.
Orochinagis
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Kind of shocking and looking into his past, He was like any normal person, Im curious to know what happened to this radical change.
Maybe he has people helping him? Most chases you see on TV are from drunken or drugged out idiots. This guy calculated and planned a terrorist attack.
And believe it or not police lose people. Not to mention the escape was at night with gun fire and what not going off.. He just happened to slip through the cracks and that shit happens.
Freezie KO
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There were no helicopter because of the weather. But it really doesn't matter. They didn't get him last night. They need to now. You don't just let a terrorist suspect run around that already blew up a public event with access to even more bombs and a desire to use them.
that would be some amazing coincidence
Vire
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What the fuck?
Did he think he could just murder people and return to his normal life?
BlazingDarkness
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Damn.
maquiladora
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CBS : They threw another pressure cooker bomb at police last night but it failed to detonate. Pipe bombs and powders found in the apartment now.
User 100115
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"They are carrots! Medicinal carrots, and I'm holding them for a friend!"
What?
Well, fuck.
RiccochetJ
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I'm completely speculating here, but I'm thinking the older brother played a huge part in it.
Damn, I sent to UTD as well.
Is this whole thing approaching the territory of "what if they don't find him?" Do they just ask Bostonians to resume their normal lives even though the guy is still on the loose?
Do they actually have any clue where he is? Is he even definitely in Watertown? Is it a case of when, not if, or could this drag on and on?
After the brave, intelligent and courageous response to the bombings which led to identified suspects within days, I'm worried that the longer this manhunt continues the more people are going to turn on the authorities. I'm already reading and hearing murmurs about how they let him get away, how they can't find him, wasted tax dollars, etc.
Do they actually have any clue where he is? Is he even definitely in Watertown? Is it a case of when, not if, or could this drag on and on?
After the brave, intelligent and courageous response to the bombings which led to identified suspects within days, I'm worried that the longer this manhunt continues the more people are going to turn on the authorities. I'm already reading and hearing murmurs about how they let him get away, how they can't find him, wasted tax dollars, etc.
But dealing with terrorists that way actually means the terrorists won. They now know that you don't even have to do all that much to terrorize many and essentially bring a city to its knees, and waste huge amounts of tax money in the process. This is one 19 year old kid, not the IRA or RAF.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Those sorts of people you could probably never convince them, short of a terrorist aiming a gun at their head or something of that magnitude.
I hate politicians and the media, but this isn't about government tyrrany or media narrative, the actions of the FBI and PD. This is pure public safety, do whatever it takes to limit casualties.
ZanzibarBreeze
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Has the theory of "copycats" ever been proven? We hear the word deployed a lot, but I've never seen any studies or anything like that establishing that people copy each other. I don't really buy it, but I'd be interested if there were any studies that established this phenomenon. Stuff like this is hard to pull off, and most people are hugely incompetent.
Incendiary
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A+ reference.
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My dad and I have been watching the news and talking about this, and we both agree here. Total speculation, but it seems like the younger brother was a lot more Americanized and the older brother probably got into his head and talked him into this.
cicero
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Black Mass 2.
mightynine
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Was that security cam shot ever sourced?
To keep suspicion off of him why wouldn't he? If he just suddenly up and left that would seem more odd.
Yeah, and if you let them in they don't need to have had a warrant to prosecute you for something like that. I really do wonder how all that "works" in this situation.
We don't have a clue how he got away. He was shooting and throwing bombs as he sent over a dozen people to the hospital. Now he's hiding from the police. It would be great to tap into the all seeing eye of imaginary technology but the system is down today.
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