They had helicopters with advanced optics. What would a drone have added?
Boston revealed that in an emergency the police, FBI, and ATF will trample civil rights, aim weapons at innocent Americans, and accomplish relatively nothing, and do it soo Boston Strong that your arse will hurt for days.
The people of Boston could have been yanked without warrants from their homes and then led onto trains to concentration camps and those idiots would have thanked the Feds for the free ride... Boston Strong!
The good news is that I no longer fear a Federal martial law. There is no way in hell they could deal with that and there is no way in hell it would work. The stupidity and disorder would have been 10X worse the other night if you had a remedially-trained fire team in the area shooting at those officers instead of one, pathetic terrorist.
Plus, there’s no money to pay for the overtime.
The first sign of real trouble and those candy asses would be on the hotline
to the National Guard.