Boston Marathon Bombing

On Monday April 15, 2013 one of the world’s best known road racing events, The Boston Marathon, had a tragic ending. As the elite runners crossed the finish line two bombs went off. The first explosion happens at 2:50 p.m. The second explosion happened ten seconds after only 550 feet away. Three were killed including an eight year old boy and over 260 people were injured. The two suspects of the Boston were Tamerlan Tsamaev,26, and Dzhokhar Tsamaev,19.

      In President Obama speech he said "Boston is a tough, resilient town and so are its people.” He couldn’t have said it any better. The Bruins hosted the Sabres in Boston’s first professional sporting event since The Boston Marathon bombing. Rene Rancourt came out and sang the national anthem. The whole crowd at the game took over and sang with so much heart. It was one of the best and bone chilling anthems I’ve ever heard. Everyone seemed so proud to sing along. Five days later there was a shooting in Watertown with the Boston Bombing suspects. Tamerlan Tsamaev was killed in the shoot off with the police. Dzhokhar Tsamaev was found later on that Friday night. After a long day of the man hunt that happened. Watertown was under lock down. No one could go to work or leave their homes. Police from all over the state and some surround states came over and helped with the man hunt. They set up a 20 block perimeter in Watetown and searched through every house. A resident from Watertown went outside that night and saw that there was blood on his boat. He checked what was causing it and he found Dzhokhar Tsamaev wounded in the neck. He contacted the police and they took thermal photos to see if Tsamaev was in there. They took a robotic cane to remove the top of the boat off.

I thought that the federal government shouldn’t have been involved of the manhunt for Dzhokhar Tsamaev because they were all the way in Washington D.C. They came and took over the jobs of the Boston police. The federal government set up a 20 block perimeter while the suspect was found on block 21. The person who found the suspect wasn’t even a police or any type of authority. It was a citizen who was checking on his boat. During the ban no one was allowed to leave their homes it shows that Boston people are stubborn but get things done. If the Federal government wasn’t involved then other countries would think that the United States doesn’t care about its people.