Dear NY Times, it’s not the call to arms, it’s the call to de-arm, dipsh*ts. As someone mentioned on Twitter, that front page editorial was the greatest marketing blitz for Smith and Wesson ever
Sure, but the FBI just said they turned it back over to the landlord — that they were done. How’s that even possible? Did they pull out all the plumbing to see if anything was hidden in there? Did they take up the carpets? The guy on CNN said there was no fingerprint dust visible anywhere. Crap, I put things away in my own house and don’t find them for years. Why would they turn over the scene when there’s no urgency to do so?
I’ve changed my mind — they need to arrest every single reporter and photographer that rifled through there. Even if they were “done”, that place is sealed by authorities.
Gobsmacked. The problem now is any evidence remaining in there related to possible associates is going to be RULED OUT.
I would generously assume they looked through all of that in the past 36 hours. I’m being generous, of course. We could indeed find out this is a contaminated scene. So far, we only have the word of the landlord, and he might be trying to cover his butt.
I do believe they use 360-degree photographic equipment that gets uploaded into computers so they can revisit the site over and over without going to the location. Once they’ve collected prints and hard evidence, I think they’re done.
The woman on the second floor who said she saw one of the gunmen go in said he appeared to be heavyset. Which might be attributable to the vest and accoutrement. But it doesn’t make sense that he would let the woman go in first, if it was just two of them. Maybe, I guess, if she was the original radical out of the two, but it seems odd. Don’t really have anything else to disprove what they’ve said. I could understand mis-witnessing (is that a word?) two vs. three in the midst of an attack. But I find it confusing that a number of people could get it wrong like that who were in the room.
One of the benefits of not ID’ing the perps right away, is that it gives a false sense of security to associates who may think they’re not on the radar. If any of them think they can head over to LAX or drive to Mexico and quietly get out, they’ll be in for a rude awakening.