So much for "Voluntary" lock-down and searches in Boston.

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89. The "lockdown" kept the suspect from making his escape

by blending into a crowd, or carjacking another car, or taking hostages out on the street, or setting off a bomb in a subway station, or shooting his way into a day care center.

Instead, he had to spend the day hiding under a tarp, and slowly bleeding into unconsciousness. When the CIVILIAN lifted the tarp he wasn't greeted with a couple of bullets in his face because by that time the suspect had bled out.

If he'd peeked earlier, the property owner might be dead, there might have been another firefight with more dead and wounded cops, and probably a dead suspect to boot.

Not to mention all kinds of whining on DU and elsewhere about "why didn't the police close the area down?"

BTW, I doubt any judge in the land would rule that these cops didn't have "probable cause"--assuming this video isn't bogus on the face of it.

One house, one street, and after all these days not one other video showing another such action. No context, no explanations.

For all I know this was recorded years ago.

My friends in Watertown don't feel violated at all. Imagine that.