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Why did the FBI throw a tarp over the van windows? (Original Post)
Takket
Oct 2018
OP
And reduce the chances of things like thrown rocks and "stray" bullets.
TreasonousBastard
Oct 2018
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TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)1. Most likely to prevent damage to evidence.
thegoose
(3,115 posts)6. Yep
Fingerprints, residue, anything that will establish a solid link to the suspect and the bombs.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)8. And reduce the chances of things like thrown rocks and "stray" bullets.
Throck
(2,520 posts)2. Probably so they could change the stickers.
at140
(6,110 posts)3. Most likely to protect the suspect!
After Oswald was shot by Ruby, law enforcement learned to protect suspects.
Ohiogal
(32,006 posts)4. They should have left it out in the open
show it for all the world to see, show photos of it front and center on all news outlet sites. To let the world know what kind of despicable brain dead whack job would send bombs to good people.
On MSNBC when they showed his profile off to the left of the news feed, it said that he's a "Registered Republican". Give em credit for that!
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)5. Yep, I wondered that too. At first thought it was to cover up the tRump and GOP crap, but
then someone told me it was to protect the van/evidence, much as all the doors, even the gas cap, were sealed with red tape.
hatrack
(59,587 posts)7. Normal crime scene procedure
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