A new report credits law enforcement officers for saving hundreds of lives and instantly responding to the Boston Marathon bombing in the wake of its occurrence in 2013, but the report also details the fact that the days following the bombing saw police officers literary go out of control in their bid to capture or kill the Tsarnaev brothers and even recklessly endangered fellow officers as well as civilians.
Several police officers were reported to have deployed themselves to the scene of the Boston Marathon bombing without any clearance from their superiors, causing them to nearly clash with authorized officers in a crossfire that took place where several police had not yet identified the shooter. Some shot without taking proper aim, and several officers fired at a civilian because they mistakenly thought he fired at police.
And on April 19, 2013, four days after the bombings, over 2,500 law enforcement officers zeroed in on Watertown in Massachusetts where the Tsarnaev brothers were cornered. That same day, Dzhokhar drove over his brother Tamerlan with a carjacked Mercedes SUV after the later was fatally shot by police officers in a fierce crossfire. And later in the evening, Dzhokhar was caught in a docked boat in Watertown after police fired a fusillade of shots at him inside the boat.
Furthermore, the report states that considering about 100 police officers that converged on Tsarnaev at the boatyard, one particular officer fired “without appropriate authority in response to perceived movement in the boat,” and this made “many officers to fire at the boat in the belief that they were being shot at by the suspect. Each of these incidents created dangerous crossfire situations.”
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is now facing a 30 count charge that included murder among others, with 17 of these carrying the death sentence. His lawyers admitted he was guilty at the Federal District Court in Boston and everyone now awaits the decision of the jury to sentence Dzhokhar possibly by Monday.
(Source: microcapobserver)
