Watertown Police Chief Ed DeVeau told the local media what happened when his department encountered the Tsarnaev brothers.

First off, the brothers were not aware that the Mercedes SUV had a GPS anti-theft tracker, so police departments with the right equipment, like the Cambridge PD could track it. and Watertown was alerted they were on their way.

A patrolling officer spotted the SUV and the brothers’ Honda and called for back-up. Unfortunately the brothers spotted the police car and stopped to attack.

The patrol officer was joined by 4 on-duty and 2 off-duty officers, and hundreds of rounds were exchanged along with some home-made bombs that were in the trunk of the Honda.

Then Tamerlan decided to go on the attack and rushed the officers. He was wounded, but no one was risking a lot of aiming with all of the bullets flying. When Tamerlan ran out of ammunition, the classic ‘ton of blue’ was dropped on him, i.e. he was tackled and buried under police officers.

While the police were dealing with Tamerlan, Jokhar jumped into the SUV and tore down the road at them. The officers managed to get out of the way, but Tamerlan couldn’t, so he was run over and dragged by the SUV.

Other agencies were responding, so Jokhar jumped out of the vehicle and fled on foot.

Meanwhile the Watertown officers were dealing with two seriously injured people, Tamerlan and Transit Officer Richard Donahoe.

This is the procedure that I learned in the academy – if at all possible you arrest people, you don’t kill them. Guilt or innocence is for the courts to decide, your job is to deliver them to the court.

In a Charlie Pierce piece it is mentioned that the officers involved in the incident have turned in their weapons and are assigned to desk duty until they are cleared by a shooting review board. That’s how it is supposed to be. If you use force you have to justify it. If you shoot your weapon you have to justify it. This is what ‘protect and serve’ is all about – cops shouldn’t endanger people, and shouldn’t use any more force than absolutely necessary to keep the peace and enforce laws.

These guys did the job the way it should be done, the way people want it done, and they survived. That’s as good as it gets.

Saint George is the patron saint of England, Georgia [the country], Bulgaria, Portugal, Catalonia, and the city of Moscow. Orthodox countries tend to celebrate George on November 23^rd.

PETA condemns George for his senseless slaughter of dragons. The YWCA condemns the condemnation and wants to know when PETA is going to volunteer to be DragonChow™

It is UNESCO’s International Day of the Book.

It is also the birth and death day of Billy the Bard, who was a great writer in desperate need of a spelling checker.

Master Shakespeare gave all of the best lines to villains supplying low humor to those who have read the Folio, e.g. the late Senator Arlen Specter quoting Iago, reputedly in support of Clarence Thomas.