Chief: Cops ‘could have done better’ before Tsarnaev’s capture
It’s been more than two years since the Boston Marathon bombing and the deadly events that followed.
Now, Watertown’s police chief is saying law enforcement officers who responded without supervision to the shootout with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother in that city put themselves and other officers at risk, according to The Boston Globe.
Watertown Police Chief Edward P. Deveau spoke to the Globe for the first time on the subject Tuesday, saying law enforcement “could have done better’’ when surrounding the boat on April 19, 2013, and it was lucky no officer was injured.
“We had a plan on how to approach the boat with SWAT teams and with command staff, but what we ran into were self-deploying police officers who responded outside, and that’s what caused a problem,’’ Deveau told The Globe.
Read the full Globe story here.
Scenes from the Watertown shootout
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