Roxbury shooting suspect in an SUV hits BPD cruiser in South Boston during high-speed pursuit by state troopers

By the time this went down in Watertown they had killed *four* people, including a cop.

But hey, he was cute on the Rolling Stone cover, so the cops were just being mean to him, right?

Tsarnaev had already killed three people and were literally throwing bombs at the cops. What would you do in that scenario?

Aside from it being kind of late to think about training once you're up to your ass in alligators, I'd consider not having dozens of police from different jurisdictions self-deploy to the site without coordination, form into a circle, and start shooting into the center of the circle.

I wouldn't be spraying into the dark without a target in a residential neighborhood. There's no good justification for that.

But on Laurel Street, rounds flew into parked cars and police vehicles and chewed up fences and trees. A round entered the home of Andrew Kitzenberg on the north side of the street and lodged in a chair. Another ripped through the exterior wall of Adam Andrew and Megan Marrer’s house and landed on their living room floor.

More than a dozen officers suffered minor injuries during the mayhem, but none was believed to have been wounded by the suspects. The only serious wound was suffered by Richard Donohue, a transit cop with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, who was hit in the groin by a police bullet and began to bleed profusely.

The longer a big chase goes on and the more cops get drawn into it, the more likely it will degenerate into chaos. If you don't believe me, just ask the Boston police commisioner.