It shouldn’t have been an easy target. DHS was all over the Fish Line area. Trash cans should not have been there. It could just as easily been an Occupier who wanted to punish evil corporate sponsor John Hancock Financial. The bombs also went off long after the Elite Runners from Africa passed the Finish Line. What Racist would let them get by safely?
They swept for bombs twice BEFORE the race started. I wonder how many people saw the perpetrator toss a pressure cooker (if that rumor is true) in the trash without a second thought about it.
Why didn’t the dogs in this “drill” find any of these explosives?
“It shouldn’t have been an easy target. DHS was all over the Fish Line area. Trash cans should not have been there. It could just as easily been an Occupier who wanted to punish evil corporate sponsor John Hancock Financial. The bombs also went off long after the Elite Runners from Africa passed the Finish Line. What Racist would let them get by safely?”
It is a relatively easy target. Unlike a stadium event, there is no way to check people as they enter because there are no fixed entry points. The event is spread out over 20+ miles. There were more than 20,000 participants, finishing over a period of two hours. Each participant probably had some kind of athletic bag or backpack in custody of a friend or family member, containing clothes and energy drinks and so forth. These backpacks would be everywhere. Particularly after the frontrunners crossed the finish line, there would be a tendency for the crowds to dissipate and the security to relax a bit. Then it would be even easier to infiltrate the crowd with a bomb or bombs.