Eyewitnesses to the shootout involving the
alleged Boston bombers have thrown up another contradiction to the official
narrative, asserting that MBTA Transit Police Officer Richard H. Donohue Jr.
was not shot by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev but by other cops in a friendly fire
incident.
Previous media reports had blamed the Tsarnaev
brothers for the shootings of both MIT campus police officer Sean Collier and
Donohue, feeding the narrative that the suspects were engaged in a desperate
attempt to flee police by returning fire and throwing improvised bombs.
However, as we previously highlighted, footage
from the raid suggests the brothers may have been trying to surrender as they
came under a barrage of gunfire. Audio from the scene captures the suspects
yelling, “chill out” and “we didn’t do it,” as bullets seem to fly in one
direction only.
Add this to the claim of the aunt of Tamerlan
Tsarnaev, that the footage which emerged of police arresting a naked
uninjured man was her nephew, contradicting the official narrative that
Tsarnaev was critically injured in a shootout and suggesting he may have been
killed while in custody, and it’s easy to see why some are questioning
whether the raid unfolded exactly as authorities claimed.
Eyewitnesses to the shootout also contradicted
claims by police that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ran over his own brother in a car,
stating instead that he was run over by police.
“Eyewitness accounts strongly suggest that
MBTA Transit Police Officer Richard H. Donohue Jr. was shot and nearly killed
by a fellow officer in Watertown April 19 during the hail of gunfire
unleashed on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as the suspected terrorist made a getaway in a
carjacked sport utility vehicle,” reports the Boston Globe.
