When they began moving in, they could see their target lying on his side in the boat, one leg and one arm hanging out of it, possibly unconscious.
They were about 10 to 15 yards away when Tsarnaev suddenly sat straight up.
"You don't really have time to be afraid," Sgt. Sean Reynolds recalled.
"At a time like that, training kicks in," Thompson added. "We don't have emotion going into something like that."
Thankfully, the suspect put both his hands up, and when the cops saw they were empty, they ran to him.
"We pulled him down and put the cuffs on him," said Thompson, the arresting officer of record in an operation that involved hundreds of cops over the course of the day.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...cuffed-bomb-suspect-no-time-to-be-afraid?lite
This helps to make some sense of DT's condition at the time he was cuffed.
They were about 10 to 15 yards away when Tsarnaev suddenly sat straight up.
"You don't really have time to be afraid," Sgt. Sean Reynolds recalled.
"At a time like that, training kicks in," Thompson added. "We don't have emotion going into something like that."
Thankfully, the suspect put both his hands up, and when the cops saw they were empty, they ran to him.
"We pulled him down and put the cuffs on him," said Thompson, the arresting officer of record in an operation that involved hundreds of cops over the course of the day.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...cuffed-bomb-suspect-no-time-to-be-afraid?lite
This helps to make some sense of DT's condition at the time he was cuffed.