Comment section is very favorable to the good Doctor.
A good one:
Wow, so in your eyes a manhunt for 19 year old kid, with no military training whatsoever, who may have only been armed with a single 9mm, justifies: - spending $333,000,000 (!!! That's the estimate I heard on Channel 7 the day of this debacle - I'm sure it's higher now) - 10,000 law enforcement agents from hundreds of miles away - FBI, Homeland Security, BATFE, and DEA (DEA?!?! - yes believe it or not I saw a DEA officer with an assault weapon onsite!) to be deployed with armored vehicles (MRAPS and Hummers) into what is a normally quiet neighborhood. - Dozens of weekend warriors with AR15s that they were constantly pointing at obviously innocent civilians, muzzle sweeping them for absolutely no reason. That is when they didn't have their hands in their pockets (I counted at least 3 guys in full assault vests with their hands literally in their pockets while watching the TV coverage) - Forcing dozens of residents out of their homes, again at gunpoint even though it was obvious none of them fit the description of the kid, in total violation of the 4th amendment. My guess is so that they could unload their magazines without worrying about killing any innocent civilians. - Literally HUNDREDS of rounds fired unnecessarily in a residential neighborhood, despite the fact that, again, this was a 19 year old kid with no military training and it turned out he was barely even armed. Are you freakin' kidding me? You're trying to say this was all justified?!? Personally I agree 100% with Ron and Rand Paul - Watertown PD and SWAT and maybe Cambridge SWAT, with a EOD tech from Boston on standby could have given us the same outcome and $332,999,000 in change. There was absolutely NO justification for such a dramatic over-reaction, and based on what I saw, I'd love to see the budget for the DEA, BATFE and homeland security cut severely based on their lack of performance. When you bring out that much force and yet your suspect gets located by an observant CIVILIAN and the FLIR on an Mass State Police helicopter, then that tells me we would be MUCH safer without all of these assault weapon-wielding paramilitary forces, and instead we should just use local and state police and maybe deputize some locals who would be a little less likely to shoot up the whole neighborhood!! Having paramilitary police running around with automatic assault weapons and tax-payer purchased ammunition in a residential neighborhood is a recipe for disaster and there are hundreds of bullet holes in that neighborhood to attest to that fact. People from the neighborhood with tactical carbine and CQB training taken at their local gun club (very often the exact same training SWAT gets) would have been *much* more careful about shooting up their own neighborhood, because they would have to face their neighbors the next day and explain why they were blasting away! I'm sure there are people out there who are completely unfamiliar with firearms and tactics, without any tactical training whatsoever, who watched that whole circus unfold and thought all that nonsense was necessary, but there's no way you're going to convince me this couldn't have been handled by local and state PD. Other than establishing a perimeter around the site, which could have been done by local PD, all of those federal agents did was walk around in circles - a waste of money and completely unnecessary. The worse part is that now they will use this debacle to justify even higher budgets!
