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.”
I have two cousins (Boston Police officers) that were involved in the search. The escape car was abandoned in the neighborhood that was searched. They did have search dogs involved in the search for suspect#2. Initially there was a blood trail that lead to a basement of a house in the area. At one point he was in the basement but fled. The boat was just outside the search perimeter which is why it wasn't searched before. The police suspected that a terrorists cell may be harboring suspect#2. Both suspects used bombs against the police earlier that night. They assumed that suspect#2 still had explosives. The boat owner did not notice the torn tarp since he was in is house all day under the shelter in place order. It wasn't until the order was lifted and he went outside to smoke that he saw the torn tarp.
Yes, I would have had K9 involved immediately. At this point, I have no reason to believe that K9 was not involved, I just haven't seen any footage of any tracking happening. It could have happened though, I don't know.
One problem is that for K9 to effectively track, you can't have 9,000 people running all over the place. It messes up the track and is distracting to the animal. Normally you set up a perimeter, and K9 searches inside that perimeter with all other officers staying back / behind K9.