MEMA releases response report on Boston Marathon bombing
By Stephanie Vargas/AP
The report, released Friday, says while the first officers who encountered suspects Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev acted correctly with their weapons during the ensuing firefight, officers who arrived later opened fire “without necessarily having identified and lined up their target.”
A transit police officer was seriously wounded during the gunfire. The report does not explicitly say if he was shot by another officer.
The report says an officer later fired his weapon “without appropriate authority” after Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was discovered hiding in a boat later that day.
The following lists the key best practices:
First having strong relationships and successful unified command allowed all officials to come together rapidly, communicate effectively, make decisions after the bombing and during the manhunt.
The all hazards medical system for the marathon day allowed officials to transport all people hurt from the scene.
The well-planned and organized re-opening of
The following list is where there was room for improvement:
The lack of coordination and management of mutual aid within the
The lack of weapons discipline effected how they caught the suspects. Officials fired their weapons without lining up the suspect correctly.
Lastly, the lack of a joint information center caused public messaging to become less corresponding.
Officials are correcting issues and hope this information helps other agencies.
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