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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI don't get it, re: bombing suspect photo
this photo is being shown all over the place. investigators have said they are looking for two possible suspects. while they haven't confirmed to my knowledge that this photo is one of the people they're looking for, the news media is clearly drawing that conclusion.
What I don't understand is... yes this guy looks a little suspicious. While everyone else is freaking out from the blast, he stands out in a weird way.
BUT, this photo is taken AFTER the blast. it makes very little sense that the person responsible would be standing at the scene at this point. Comments have been made that in the photo you can tell this person was affected by the blast - his clothes are torn and burnt.
I fail to see the logic why this person is such a focus of the investigation. Sure I'd want to talk to him and get some info. But from this photo alone I would not consider him a suspect because the photo was taken after the blast and the perpetrator is most likely not that standing right where the blast took place at this time.
it's more likely to find him in photos taken before the blast, not after. I would expect to find him on camera a block or two away from the blast at this point, not right at the center of the scene. If that's him, the implication is, that he planted the bomb, moved away waited for it to detonate but was close enough to have his clothes burned right off his skin, and then came back to the center of it all for some reason. Just doesn't make sense to me. Am I missing something
Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)it makes no sense. OMG a guy running away after a bomb? Seems he's got the sort of genes that survive.
And unless one is a suicide bomber, you don't really want to be next to the bomb when it goes off.
Just silly imho. A distraction.
garybeck
(9,932 posts)is if he is responsible, perhaps he ran back after the bomb blew up to see if there was any evidence leftover he could remove from the scene, like a torn up backpack, or the lid from the pressure cooker. But unless they have another photo of the same guy doing something suspicious before the blast, I see no reason to conclude that's what's happening in this photo.
Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)Being close enough to a blast like that such that your clothes is torn off will almost certainly render you really dazed and confused. Running away is the most appropriate reaction imho.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)Iggo
(47,487 posts)What guy?
garybeck
(9,932 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)or the guy to his left standing straight up holding his hands to his ears?
Either way, neither of them looks suspicious to me.
garybeck
(9,932 posts)right in the middle of the smoke cloud, there's a guy with a black shirt and black shorts.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)i thought that was a woman wearing a black skirt. And digging for something with a pickaxe.
byeya
(2,842 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,276 posts)seen them do is present it as one of 25 some guy took from his office window.
garybeck
(9,932 posts)yesterday they were showing each photo in sequence, discussing what this guy was wearing, how suspicious he looked... many times I've seen the photo with a circle around him....
here's one example
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/04/boston-marathon-eyewitness-gives-fbi-photo-of-man-fleeing-scene/
"I was struck by this individual, Thornike told ABC News. Everyone else in the photo is on the ground, bent over, holding their ears, appearing to be in shock, immobile, but this one individual is exactly the opposite.
kenny blankenship
(15,689 posts)Well that's highly suspicious in itself!
sinkingfeeling
(51,276 posts)"Authorities have not said that man or any other individual is a suspect in the case, but they have contacted Thornike about the photos and have repeatedly urged any witnesses to come forward with videos and photos that could be a potential piece of evidence."
Also says it's one of 2000 the FBI are looking at.
gvstn
(2,805 posts)Whom was the photographer looked at the photos he had taken and sent them to the FBI because he found the guy to be acting differently than others so soon after the blast. He was just doing what authorities asked--forward any photos that spectators had taken. He didn't say the guy did anything wrong only that he thought his photos showed something of possible interest.
I think it was outlets like CNN that turned that story into "this guy in black is a suspect." Again terrible reporting. Irresponsible.
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gvstn
(2,805 posts)Which were really good and in fast sequence after the explosion. The media started taking shortcuts with his words and made it out that he was accusing someone. He never said that.
Password: Thorndike http://benthorndike.smugmug.com/Other/Marathon-Explosion-Photos/28935557_ZjvV65#!i=2459431165&k=wCPkhHj
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garybeck
(9,932 posts)i agree. that's my point. thanks.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Two days ago.
He's a victim.
John1956PA
(2,654 posts)The fellow in the black (whom I accept was a victim and not a perpetrator) had his shirt sleeve and pant leg torn off by the blast. If there had been ball bearings, nails, or other shrapnel-producing contents placed inside of the bomb, then I would have thought that he would have sustained lacerations to his arm and leg. I am not making my observation in order to argue any particular point. Bombs can produce unexpected results. Also, I would not have expected that a bomb would be powerful enough to tear off a victim's shirt sleeve and pant leg without maiming him. But that is apparently what happened.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)People are just desperate at this point. Every person with a backpack is now a suspect, in the public's mind.
kenny blankenship
(15,689 posts)Whither he then runs, while everyone else runs in the opposite direction, sort of. Do you need Chuck Todd to draw you a map?
renate
(13,776 posts)What you said up there about the circle around him being suspicious made me and now "do you need Chuck Todd to draw you a map"...
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)...he's the only one running. Apparently, the people looking at this picture are only looking at the one (possibly) brown skinned guy in the picture (I honestly can't tell what color his skin is. I've been told that he's a Saudi from some seers on the internet). The couple at the bottom of the photo are running. Maybe they're the bombers. The lady in the pink vest appears to be running. Could be her.
Let's say that this young man is of ME descent. Maybe he's from Iraq or Afghanistan. He's grown up with bombings. His mother told him as a little boy, "If you hear an explosion, RUN!". Her fear is not only for his physical safety. She knows he'll always be the guilty one in an American's eyes. Run.
Everyone on the internet is a super sleuth without a clue. I'll wait until they release the video. When I say 'they', I don't mean the faux journalists that are looking for fame.
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Quantess
(27,630 posts)gvstn
(2,805 posts)High school track runner and his coach. HAve already talked to the police and been cleared.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Those guys were cleared.
Benton D Struckcheon
(2,347 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)bushisanidiot
(8,064 posts)while so many others there are on the ground wounded, but i don't see shredded clothes
anywhere else. that being said, i have a weak stomache and have purposefully NOT
looked at pics of victims. Reading and hearing about it is bad enough. I cannot look
at them.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)That was people jumping to conclusions
The police haven't yet shown the pictures of the man they are looking for.