Serious Condition of Boston Suspect Raises Questions About What Police Did and When

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Police officials say that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, aged 19, was found hiding overnight in a boat in the backyard of a house in the Boston suburb of Watertown, where he was wounded and exhausted from a “gun battle with police” in which his accomplice brother was killed.

Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis announced after Dzhokhar’s arrest: “the citizens of the city of Boston and this area can be confident that the threat has been removed”.

The suspect is said to be in serious condition held at a heavily guarded Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, and interestingly, unable to talk as a result of “injuries to the throat”, as Federal prosecutors await their chance to interview him. It is not clear as yet, whether or not, or when the suspect will be allowed a lawyer present during questioning. 

Every step of the Boston Bombing saga this week has relied almost exclusively on official statement by police as to what happened and when. We have already raised a number of serious questions about inconsistencies in suspect status here, and here. In addition, the FBI has been shown concealing from public view the fact that their agency has a relationship with older suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

Should the public trust the FBI and Boston Police to deliver a full and accurate account of these events?

Was Dzhokhar shot before, or after police found him?

Helicopter footage appears to show the suspect climbing out from under a tarp in good form, even though police insist he was bleeding all day from gun shot wounds sustained during his escape.

PHOTO: Helicopter footage show suspect climbing out.
After the apparent apprehension, the suspect can be seen with a damage face and neck, which do not appear to be consistent with his physical state after he was set upon by police. This begs the question: what did police do to the suspect when the apprehended him? See for yourself…

The media are also celebrating some of the high tech gadgetry and technologies used by police in the nation’s largest-ever urban manhunt.

Before the teen was taken into custody, a 1000 strong Boston Police and tactical group felt there was no other option but to send in a robot to finally pull the tarp off a boat where the boy had been hiding. 

“We used a robot to pull the tarp off the boat,” said David Procopio of the Mass. State Police. “We were also watching him with a thermal imaging camera in our helicopter. He was weakened by blood loss – injured last night, most likely.”

Biggest Dragnet in US history

What’s really extraordinary is that the single biggest and most expensive dragnet in US history could not manage to find the suspect who was only 3 blocks away from the original confrontation with police, who was eventually found by a resident out for an evening cigarette.

Nonetheless, it was still deemed a resounding victory by federal and local law enforcement, the media and the residents of Boston.

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