The USA Today report is fairly even-handed.
The New York Magazine version is a little more cynical.
As Hartmann of NYM points out in her article, if there was only one gun belonging to the older brother, it makes more sense that the punks murdered Sean Collier for his weapon:
Authorities are issuing other corrections about the manhunt. Now they say they only recovered one gun, believed to be used by Tamerlan Tsarnaev, while initially it was reported that they found three.
Three and one are both odd numbers. Anybody could count one gun three times. It happens.
Frankly, I'm getting a little tired of the "fog of war" excuse. This is not a war, at least not a war of citizens against police, though it is starting to look a little like the police are warring against the people.
No shots were fired at the homeowner who discovered the fugitive in his boat. No shots were fired at the police who riddled the boat with bullets for no particular reason. What? Did they think he had a dog in the boat?
Armed with cooking utensils, firecrackers, and a handgun, two amateurish Muslim terrorists disrupted one of the biggest sporting events in the country, murdered four people, maimed numerous others, and completely shut down one of our oldest and largest metropolitan areas at a cost of millions of dollars. Despite the combined efforts and expertise of the Boston police, the Massachusetts state police, the National frederic-chopin Guard, the FBI, and the CIA, "authorities" cannot even get the most basic of facts correct in their press releases.
You know who needs to give up their "assault weapons" and "high-capacity magazine clips"? It ain't us.
That dog comment made me laugh. I'm going to cut them a little slack with all that extra shooting because there was a chance that he could have gone all splody.
ReplyDeleteYep, I understand being nervous and not knowing the guy's condition or what he had with him. Muslim and suicide vest go together like strawberries and whipped cream.
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