[101stAirborneVet]

Yeah. But so far, the concern is from keyboard commandos

You sure like to throw that "keyboard commando" insult around. I spent 20 years as a police officer, suffering my share of attacks and injuries and receiving a fair share of commendations. I'm not trying to boast, but to show how your "keyboard commando" insult is ridiculous. It's an ad hominem attack designed to deflect from your inability to make your case succinctly. I think I have every right to question the police, I've been in their shoes.

You never answered my question from the other thread (for obvious reasons), you just misdirected to another topic:

Given that on an almost nightly basis, violent felons (murderers, armed carjackers, AWIK [Assault with Intent to Kill], etc.) run from the police in DC and get away into a neighborhood, do you support the DC police doing each night what Boston did in this particular event?

[EternalVigilance]

Actually I did answer you. You’ll have to go back a read the thread.

[RummyChick]

My question, if you were controlling that manhunt..wouldn’t you have used dogs from the scene of the last known vehicle that he used that was abandoned???

Here is why the tarp photo is important
From my post:

“I understand why people are confused but you have to step back and look at the whole picture.

It doesn’t add up.

The story now is that it is a neighbor’s surveillance camera that took that picture on the night/early morning before the door to door search. Is it??????? Or is it a story to hide his condition

Think about the condition of that guy. Could he actually step out of the boat like that with a throat wound after the boat was shot up and he was flash banged and he spent all night losing blood.. Where is the blood all over him.

So what really happened.

The guy is in a car that got shot up. He is escaping on wheels.

That doesn’t warrant a warrantless search the likes of which we saw on Friday because he could be ANYWHERE IN ANY STATE.

But if they found the abandoned car then it might give a basis for the massive swat armored car police state.

HOWEVER, a trained dog would have picked up that scent.

It is just mighty convenient that they found him after the massive warrantless searches were over but no dog found him from a blood trail scent.

My little dog can pick up a scent and you see her follow it with her nose to the ground.

You can’t tell me trained dogs couldn’t have found him if properly utilized.

That’s why they use dogs for manhunts.

So the question is....was that picture take before the door to door manhunt or after?

If after, that is not the same kid in the same condition he would have been after being shot in the throat.

If before, how do you explain the torn tarp??? And no one seeing it all day long.”

[jpsb]

Just beginning to look at the police response at the "at large bomber" and it seems a like a tremendous over reach to me. Shutting down an entire major American City over one wounded teenager with a gun? Also note that the police never found the bomber, a citizen did once he was allowed to leave his home. All this looks to me like great theater but not very effective law enforcement. Maybe LE thought this was a great opportunity to practice house to house searches.

The video of the house search is disturbing but I do not know the circumstances. I'd have to see a few more videos before I'd get really concerned. Could be the house being searched was "a house of interest". I very much doubt this search was typical of all the house to house searches.

To sum up, looks like a practice run to me, with a few homes selected for "special treatment", not a serious effort to apprehend the bomber.

[JimRed]

Given that on an almost nightly basis, violent felons (murderers, armed carjackers, AWIK [Assault with Intent to Kill], etc.) run from the police in DC and get away into a neighborhood, do you support the DC police doing each night what Boston did in this particular event?

But- but- but that would be raaacissst! < /sarc >