Live video coverage on the gunfight involving explosives in Watertown, Massachusetts

Holy shit.

Suspect's mother saying that the FBI was with them every step of the way.

Now the mother, too? Wouldn't be the first time, but this is crazy. I'm surprised they are letting the media interview the relatives still, they haven't intervened "for national security purposes".
 
I hope someone puts up a tube of it.

She said the FBI was with them every step of the way, that they wouldn't have done it, that the FBI could have pulled the plug on it at anytime. It was pretty epic.
 
I hope someone puts up a tube of it.

She said the FBI was with them every step of the way, that they wouldn't have done it, that the FBI could have pulled the plug on it at anytime. It was pretty epic.

Im pretty much to the point that I expect every one of these incidents to be fed fueled in some form. It's the default conclusion....seen it too many times already.
 
It was reported this morning by the news that the cops were going to use explosives on a house this afternoon. That seemed really weird to me.
 
while i don't buy any of the 'they never told me about anything like that' type of talk (because of course they didn't), it's quite odd she repeatedly mentioned visits to her by the FBI. I don't even know what to make of that. Seems pretty absurd to make up, but also seems pretty absurd to be true.
 
Does it seem like overkill to anyone other than me that the entire city of Boston has been shut down because of one 19 year old boy?
 
Does it seem like overkill to anyone other than me that the entire city of Boston has been shut down because of one 19 year old boy?

Looks more like conditioning for martial law than a genuine concern for safety of residents, though it could be to protect the people from trigger happy cops (a la Dorner) than concern for the kid harming anyone. Also, keeping everyone in lockdown prevents unflattering or inconvenient videos and pictures from being taken and distributed. You're right, it is overkill.
 
its a tad short of vintage civil war or reconstruction era martial law in that we have yet to see a suspension of the writ of habeas corpus
 
while i don't buy any of the 'they never told me about anything like that' type of talk (because of course they didn't), it's quite odd she repeatedly mentioned visits to her by the FBI. I don't even know what to make of that. Seems pretty absurd to make up, but also seems pretty absurd to be true.


What I got was the the FBI was monitoring this guy. He was visiting extremist sites on the internet. His Mom knew they were monitoring this guy, because they had come to her repeatedly and told her that he was in deep - he was a leader and they were afraid of what he might do.
 
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