How I would have Handled things?
Fine, put me on the spot, here I go: They had 15-20 drones with IR/IFR capability cruising the city, well Boston metro with rotating patterns every 40 minutes, another words, sectors.
I would have coordinated these drones with the over 4000 cameras all over Boston to hunt these faggots down and arrest them. They already knew what they looked like, etc. From what I understand, the cop that got shot, had confronted these guys, and they were in a "hot zone" already when the firefight broke out between them and the police. "Hotzone", being where the police and FBI though was the highest probability that these idiots were.
Imho, there was no need to canvass and use the 4th anmendment temp powers for warrantless searches in an emergency. I do agree they did the right thing by waiting them out, but according to NPR as well as eyewitness accounts, these 15000 residents that had the knock once, loudspeaker warning and then bust the door down approach, was approx 3-10 miles away from where the suspects were actually caught as well as staying, seemed well, just a little bit overboard...
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