While the world slept last night, Boston Police did their job. Like the many unsung heroes among first responders and soldiers on watch in some of the globe’s most treacherous places, they don’t work for recognition but only to get the job done.
Last night Boston police stopped dead in his tracks one of two terrorists who killed three and injured 176 others in the Boston Marathon bombings. It’s only a matter of time before they find 19-year-old Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, who was wearing a white baseball cap in an FBI-released photo, and is now on the run.
Both Marathon bomb suspects are believed to be brothers from the Russian region of Chechnya and had lived in the USA for at least one year. (Daily Mail, April 19, 2013)
“With a bomb strapped to his chest, one of the Boston Marathon suspects was killed early Friday after he and his accomplice robbed a 7-Eleven, shot a MIT police officer, Sean Collier, 26 to death, carjacked an SUV, and hurled explosives out the window in an extraordinary firefight with law enforcement,” authorities told NBC News.
“The suspects are Chechen brothers with the same last name Tsarnaev, law authorities told NBC News. The suspect at large, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is 19 and has a Massachusetts driver’s license, they said. Law enforcement officials told NBC News that both men are legal, permanent residents of the United States, had been here about a year and had military experience.”
The true life heroes in everyday’s script, are not the media, and never the government. Like the MIT campus officer Sean Collier found shot with multiple gunshot wounds in in his own vehicle in the area of Vassar and Main streets last night, they always go unnamed in the beginning.
First responders like university campus officers, beat police and volunteer firemen, like the wholly volunteer Fire Dept. in the Town of West, Texas, scene of the fertilizer plant explosion, run without question to scenes of human devastation without looking back.
Like the mainstream media and the politicians they don’t get to count on second guess.
“I wouldn’t characterize them as ‘suspects’ under the technical term,” Department of Homeland Security head Janet Napolitano said of the two FBI-identified Boston Marathon bombing suspects yesterday. “But we need the public’s help in locating these individuals.”
If anything, last night in the streets of Boston dramatic firefight proves that the system works. The police, the Cambridge Bomb Squad, the Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad were there, with the police undeterred by explosive devices being thrown at them from the getaway car of two terrorists.
Even in a world where most everything is poisoned by politics, the public could count on them doing their jobs.
God bless each and every first responder. God rest the souls of the ones who give their lives for the safety of others.
Update: 9:00 A.M.
Police have identified the dead terrorist as Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26.
Update: 9:30 A.M.
Name of Killed MIT Police officer: Sean Collier, 26
Update: 10:30 A.M. Djohar Tsarnav VK Page-- (Russian Facebook)
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-- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.
