Post by Jeanne Sager
It felt like the whole world was watching the takedown of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. At one point there were some 130,000 people tuned in to one UStream account broadcasting a local police scanner for the outside world to hear, and hundreds of thousands more were tuned in to the various TV networks, all waiting with bated breath. Now police have decided to give us an inside look at how it all went down with the release of video footage from an infrared camera trained on the now famous boat in that Watertown backyard. Mostly black and white, the heat-sensing images are eerie. We can see the injured 19-year-old bombing suspect moving around inside that boat, the flash bangs set off by cops in an attempt to disorient him, and a robot working around the boat. But it's what we don't see that is the real story of this video.![]()
It felt like the whole world was watching the takedown of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. At one point there were some 130,000 people tuned in to one UStream account broadcasting a local police scanner for the outside world to hear, and hundreds of thousands more were tuned in to the various TV networks, all waiting with bated breath. Now police have decided to give us an inside look at how it all went down with the release of video footage from an infrared camera trained on the now famous boat in that Watertown backyard. Mostly black and white, the heat-sensing images are eerie. We can see the injured 19-year-old bombing suspect moving around inside that boat, the flash bangs set off by cops in an attempt to disorient him, and a robot working around the boat. But it's what we don't see that is the real story of this video.