Boston “Abolishes” Special SWAT Team That Captured Marathon Bomber

hotair ^ | August 2, 2020 | JAZZ SHAW

[Rurudyne]

I guess more people will do something....

[a fool in paradise]

You’re on your own

[Intar]

With everything shut down by our tyrannical govenors, now is a terrible time to be a terrorist, unless said terrorist targeted a large building or something.

[Lockbar]

Boston surrenders to invaders again. Just this time not from England.

[mrmeyer]

Was this the unit riding in Mraps pointing ar-15s/m4s at residents peeking out of their windows?

[KC_Lion]

Because, of course they did.

[Red Badger]

The citizens of Boston will get what they deserve for electing a bunch of morons to govern them.....................

[a fool in paradise]

Common expectation of big city living

[SunkenCiv]

Take away the cops, impoverish the society via reparations and "social workers", grab all the guns...

[Rurudyne]

Well, in Stabbystabbystan big cities.

[freeandfreezing]

"The highly trained Transit SWAT team that was once celebrated for capturing Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been dissolved."

That has to be the fake news story of the day, or history is already being re-written.

In fact, the younger Tsarnaev was found wounded and hiding in a boat by a guy in Watertown who went out back to smoke a cigarette. The various SWAT teams, police, and federal agents had missed him as the searched the neighborhood and rousted people from their houses.

The credit for finding the terrorist should go to the civilian who actually found him. After that happened multiple teams including FBI SWAT teams converged on Tsarnaev.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I remember a number of Freepers disdaining the heavy handed tactics of the SWAT team that busted into peoples' homes with little or no warning.

I don't know if any dogs were killed, but plenty of constitutional rights were violated.

But then again Lincoln dumped the constitution during the Civil War, Wilson dumped it during WWI, FDR dumped it during the Depression, and every president since 911 has dumped it.

So one step in the opposite direction might be a good thing.

[Red Badger]

If William Buckley, Jr. was still alive,he'd want to rethink his famous quote: “I would sooner be governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand members of the faculty of Harvard.” ― William F. Buckley Jr., Happy Days Were Here Again: Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist

[Mears]

It’s the Transit Police,not the Boston police....no big deal.

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[Spirochete]

... Abolishes Special SWAT Team

You mean these awesome jackasses?

All SWATs should be abolished.

[Mears]

I don’t recall SWAT teams busting into people’s homes.....do you have a link?

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[ProtectOurFreedom]

Reassign those highly trained SWAT team members to something useful...like catching turnstile cheaters.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Why do the Transit Police need their own SWAT team? A city needs one SWAT team that knows what they’re doing, not ten different agencies with their own teams, all itching to do something with all their toys.

[Bonemaker]

If those are the ones who dangerously harassed all the Boston homeowners then good riddance,