Friday, April 19, 2013

Massive Police Operation Underway in #Boston

At the Washington Post, "Boston locked down for massive manhunt; one bombing suspect killed, the other at large."

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And at the Boston Globe, "Search for Marathon bombing suspect locks down Watertown, surrounding communities":
WATERTOWN — With nearly a million residents of the Boston area hunkering down behind locked doors, heavily armed police are making their way through a 20-block area of this community, searching for one of the suspects in the deadly Boston Marathon terror bombings.

The search for Dzhokhor A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge comes after a chaotic, violent night in which a second suspect died in a firefight with police, and one police officer was killed and another was seriously wounded.

Colonel Timothy Alben, head of the State Police, said in a news conference shortly after 12:30 p.m. that there had been “no apprehension at this point,” but said the situation was changing moment by moment.

Local, state, and federal law enforcement officers, including the Secret Service, are undertaking a door-to-door search of the area in Watertown. K-9 teams, explosives experts, and SWAT officers are involved, said State Police spokesman David Procopio. Alben said the search was about 60 percent complete.
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And here's the banner headline at the New York Times, "Dragnet for One Man Paralyzes Boston: Officer and a Suspect Are Dead as 2nd Eludes Capture."

And  we've got derps all over Twitter moaning about how horrible is this lockdown? Folks should chill and let law enforcement do its job. It won't be too long. They'll get this motherf-ker in due time.

More at Memeorandum.

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