Former Boston Police Supervisor Criticizes Abuses of Search After Marathon Bombing

Nothing  unusual here. Massachusetts police are out of control. That was clear from the revelations of the FBI helping criminals murder citizens who reported crime. Local and state police stood by and remained mute, except for a few extraordinary officers. The honest cops suffered recriminations from their colleagues. One committed suicide. In the aftermath of the marathon bombing police came from everywhere appearing in Watertown with or without jurisdiction. Even Harvard University campus police went there and were given awards by the Boston Celtics. Campus police jurisdiction ends at the property line. But that did not stop the Harvard cowboys from helping with the shootout with the Cambridge terrorist brothers. Massachusetts police and Harvard University police have had me under surveillance and harassed me for over 25 years. No legal reason. They do it because they can. Entire Massachusetts government apparatus stands by showing their relaxed rectitude while criminal police employees abuse a citizen.

[From article]
A former Boston police lieutenant-turned-academic slammed the law enforcement response in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings on Capitol Hill yesterday, saying civil liberties were ignored in the tense search for the suspects that brought the city to a halt.
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“What we saw in that aftermath was the unilateral suspension of the United States Constitution, and particularly the Fourth Amendment,” Nolan said.
He said the house-to-house searches and use of military equipment in the April 2013 manhunt for Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, unprecedented in recent U.S. history, “was violative of the Constitution and we failed to object.”
He noted that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was ultimately apprehended not through door-to-door searches but when a resident spotted him in a boat and called 911.
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Former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis called Nolan’s assertion “outrageous.”
“The comparison (to Ferguson) is actually insulting,” said Davis. “There have been no complaints filed, so the claim that there was some sort of constitutional violation is unsupported. It just isn’t logical.”
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Atkins: Ex-cop: Bomber search violated Constitution

Thursday, November 13, 2014
By: Kimberly Atkins
Boston Herald