You make it seem like coppers were going out in battalion strength, door to door, from West Roxbury to Littleton, waving guns around, and throwing old ladies and children out of their houses and into the streets. That did not happen.
You're being exceptionally melodramatic. The coppers were given an immensely difficult task, and they did it as well as they possibly could. Check my posting history if you think I've come to this conclusion because I'm a jackboot licker.
Again, I ask - given the circumstances, what should they have done?
If the house-to-house search had uncovered a coven of Al Qaeda terroristas, I wonder if you'd be singing a different tune . . .
Perimeter search, only requires a quick check into each vehiccle leaving.
If the house-to-house search had uncovered a coven of Al Qaeda terroristas, I wonder if you'd be singing a different tune
I wonder how many more stupid hypotheticals I'm going to have to read before people finally come to their senses? An illegal search is illegal!
They certainly were out in more than Battalion strength, and going door to door, and they certainly were brandishing their firearms, and they did indeed order families out of their homes at gunpoint. There is ample video and photo documentation of all of the above.
Oh, I concede that you are correct about the geographics. I wouldn't write home about that, though.