Posted on 04/18/2013 8:22:45 PM PDT by NautiNurse
MIT issued an emergency alert at 10:48 on Thursday night reporting shots fired on the university campus. The school newspaper reports, "Shots fired near 32 Vassar St (Stata Center), police officer down. Please stay inside." That report is backed up by CBS News's Bonney Kapp who reports hearing "officer down" on the police scanner just before the MIT alert went out. For now, details are scarce, but the suspect is on the loose and considered armed and extremely dangerous.
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Some cheering starting...Boston deserves it....
LOL good one.
Amen.
Commissioner Davis gets on police radio and declares, "It is a proud day to be a Boston Police officer. Thank you."
... Just crackling across the Boston police scanner: "Boston Strong!"
:-)
Via Boston Globe reporter Twitter feed:
Commissioner Davis gets on police radio and declares, “It is a proud day to be a Boston Police officer. Thank you.”
... Just crackling across the Boston police scanner: “Boston Strong!”
:-)
I’m giving a cheer of my own here down under! Thank God they’ve taken him alive,maybe we’ll be granted a real dose of reality once the perp starts talking.At the very least a stiff breeze through a PC fog.
Thanks for these links.
I found a few other FR threads relating. Parking here for ease of retrieval.
Putin: Ally or Terrorist? (Russian FSB/KGB Real Culprits Behind "Chechen Terrorism") The New American ^ | February 2002 | William Jasper Posted on Tuesday, September 21, 2004 8:24:29 PM by GIJoel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223098/posts
Kiwi held by Chechens for 66 days said the Moscow theatre hostages would have had a nightmarish time stuff.co.nz ^ | 27 October 2002 | MATTHEW LOWE and SARAH CATHERALL Posted on Saturday, October 26, 2002 2:22:08 PM by Destro http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/776432/posts
Russian military in Chechnya thirsting for revenge smh.com.au ^ | October 30 2002 | AFP Posted on Tuesday, October 29, 2002 12:03:45 PM by Destro http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/778116/posts
Chechens 'Planned To Wreck Theatre' BBC ^ | 10-31-2002 Posted on Thursday, October 31, 2002 4:58:05 PM by blam Thursday, 31 October, 2002, 13:24 GMT http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/779623/posts
Wouldn’t the Watertown P.D. be involved,not Boston?
The incidents of the past 24 hours didn’t take place in Boston,just Cambridge and Watertown.
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YES!!! Boston Strong. Did you see the Bruins game video?
Makes me cry every single time I watch it.
Glad you were here. Great day.
A week like no other.
Breaking...no miranda right will be given...public safety being invoked.
Complete agreement here.
I am going to find that apology from Salon. I know it must be up by now.
There’s a lot of cheering in this house!
I been listen to police scanner off and on I have feeling dude was in that boat
Senator Graham will be delighted!
LOL Yes! And when you find it please post it here in 72pt font...red...blinking. I look forward to seeing that.
awesome! if that doesn’t put a lump in your throat you aint alive.When that spirit is over your whole nation you are invincible.God bless America.
Tweet from The Boston Globe:
“Law enforcement blew top off of boat.”
Yes indeedie!
Martine Powers Boston Globe tweeted One woman is handing out homemade oatmeal chocolate chip cookies to news reporters: “Thank you for all that you do.” I LOVE THIS JOB.
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