In this handout provided by the Massachusetts State Police, the boat in which Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is hiding is seen from the infrared setting of a police helicopter on Franklin Street in Watertown, Massachusetts. Massachusetts State Police via Getty Images
Boston Manhunt ‘Missed the Boat’ As Police Skip Street -- Bloomberg
Sue Lund lives about five blocks from where police engaged in a wild shootout April 19 with the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects and about eight doors down from where the one who escaped alive was found 18 hours later.
Yet, during the all-day manhunt, she said police never searched her Franklin Street home or garden shed in Watertown, Massachusetts. Ten other neighbors had the same story and said they didn’t know of any homes that had been searched on Franklin, where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was discovered by someone on the street about 30 minutes after an area lockdown was lifted.
“A lot of people’s lives were put in danger because someone in charge wasn’t doing his job,” said Lund, 61, as she stood on the wide front porch of her Victorian house. “People could have been killed because after the lockdown ended everyone came streaming out of their houses and suddenly we were in a combat zone.”
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My Comment: Thousands of police were involved in this 20 block search .... and while I do understand that the Police were cautious because of the danger that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev posed .... in light of new evidence and public comments, it makes you wonder if this could have been done better.