Quote of the Day | 0423
Seen in this light, it is clear that the US authorities massively overreacted to the suspects. In an unprecedented move, the city of Boston and nearby suburbs were placed in a ‘lockdown’ last Friday as police conducted their hunt for Dzhokhar. About a million people were ordered to stay in their homes, all public transport was cancelled, public facilities were shut. SWAT teams and armoured vehicles roamed the streets, and armed police searched house to house. Similar restrictions were not implemented in the past: not after 9/11; not during the 2002 sniper attacks in Washington, DC; nor following the shootings in Fort Hood in 2009. It was amazing: a million people forced to hunker down in their homes for an entire day, all because one teenager in a backward baseball cap was on the loose.
Sean Collins, ‘America declares war on two losers’
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