Followed him off the aircraft? What if this was a actual terrorist operation with multiple suspects, some of which could have still been on board when the Marshal's left the aircraft. After all, it would not be the first time multiple terrorist were on board on of our aircraft.
The marshals say Alpizar yelled that he had a bomb and would use it. He walked toward them, they backed up, he started to put his hands in his backpack, and they fired. Alpizar was hit by multiple shots fired by both officers.
Why didn't they shoot him when he yelled out he had a bomb? They waited while he walked towards them? They backed up? Seems to me they would have shot him as soon as the word "bomb" was yelled out. There were also reports that stated they told him to put his pack down. How would one put their pack down, without reaching for it first?
I made the exact same point in another thread.
oo oo ooo i know mistah kott-er!...What if the husband and wife used his illness as his excuse to run off the plane and blow up the terminal? How was that poor man to know whether or not there were Marshals on board?
Geez...I use my tinfoil for the grill.