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Alexis Williams College Bound 903 June 10, 2013 The Boston Bombing Marathon  The Boston marathon bombing was an event for celebration which turned into a tragic devastation. Imagine waiting at the finish line for your peer, family member, or loved one and hear a bomb go on….. BOOM!! You see buildings falling, people running; people that got seriously hurt that need an ambulance and you’re stuck in the moment not knowing what to do. The use of video surveillance and recording helped us lead to the suspects of the Boston bombers by the following 3 main points; 1) Camera’s and cellphones provided the investigators in Boston with thousands of images and the challenges of looking through them to identify the Boston marathon bombers; 2) When the FBI posted the video of the two suspects, hundreds of people tried to access the website – people were looking at pictures to help solve the crime; 3) instead of leaving why didn’t they leave. According to Wikipedia in [|“The Boston Bombing Marathon”] it stated on April 15, 2013 two pressure cooker bombs exploded at 2:49 pm killing 3 people and injuring 264. The FBI took over the investigation and on April 18 released photographs and surveillance video of two suspects. A police officer was critically injured; Tamellan Tsarneaev was killed while Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was injured. During an initial interrogation in the hospital, Dzhokhar said Tamerlan was the mastermind of the plan.

 The use of video surveillance and recording helped us lead to the suspects of the Boston bombing marathon because [|when the FBI posted the video of the two suspects; thousands of people were trying to help solve the crime]. DesLaurier said, “Somebody out there knows these individuals as a friend, neighbor, coworker or family member of the suspects. Though it may be difficult, the nation is counting on those with information to come forward and provide to us.” They were considered armed and dangerous. In how the Boston bombing victim iconic photo helped identify the attackers article states that the FBI photo – analysis specialist have been analyzing a mountain of surveillance footage and amateur pictures and video for clues to who carried out the attack and why. The use of video surveillance and recording helped us lead to the suspects of the Boston bombing by FBI posting the video of the two suspects; thousands of people tried to access the website and people were looking at pictures to help solve the crime. The articles are telling us that it was hard to find the suspects but with the help of technology and people they found evidence of the suspects.

The use of video surveillance and recording helped us lead to the suspects of the Boston bombing by cameras and cellphones which provided the investigator in Boston with thousands of images – looking thro ugh them to identify the bombers. In the articles that I have researched assert that it was a challenge of sitting looking through images to identify the suspects from the Boston marathon bombers. In the article [|FBI: Help us ID Boston bomb suspects]  by Matt Smith and Thom Patterson, CNN states that “ After three days of poring over photos and video, investigators appealed to the public to help them identify two men now considered suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. The men were photographed walking down Boylston Street, one behind the other, near the finish line of Monday's race.” This tells us that with the help of searching or investigating and the people who reached out and took out of their time to help find the suspects. The use of video surveillance and recording helped us lead to the suspects of the Boston bombing by Cameras and cellphones provided the investigators in Boston with thousands of images and the challenges of looking through them to identify the Boston marathon bombers. The two articles states that the bombers were traced down and how investigators found them.

The use of video surveillance and recording helped us lead to the suspects of the Boston bombing instead of staying why they didn’t flee. In this article “7 biggest unanswered questions over Boston Marathon bombings” by: Jeff Black stated that, “Investigators continue to probe Dzhokhar's behavior after he returned to the campus of the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth on Tuesday and resumed the life of a student after allegedly dropping a bomb-filled knapsack into a crowd watching the marathon.” In the same article it says, “At some point Tamerlan Tsarnaev apparently adopted more fundamental Islamic beliefs, but no accounts have yet emerged to suggest he suddenly saw violence as an acceptable expression of his faith. Instead of staying why they didn’t flee this is trying to show that they wanted to see the damage that they caused and act innocent so they wouldn’t get punished.

The use of video surveillance and recording helped us lead to the suspects of the Boston. 1) When the FBI posted the video of the two suspects, hundreds of people tried to access the website – people were looking at pictures to help solve the crime; 2) Camera’s and cellphones provided the investigator in Boston with thousands of images and the challenges of looking through them to identify the Boston marathon bombers; 3) instead of the staying why didn’t they flee. The Boston marathon bombing is an important topic to discuss because it was a current event and many people didn’t experience what it was like for immigrants to trespass to destroy something that was important.