Standoff ends peacefully in Roslindale
By adamg - 4/10/09 - 11:37 am
The SWAT team left a little after 2 p.m.
A yelling man, a call to 911 and some "initial miscommunication" turned a quiet Roslindale side street into a hostage-negotiation scene early this afternoon, with armor-clad SWAT cops encircling a house, hostage negotiators using a loudspeaker to try to get the guy inside to pick up his phone so they could talk to him, ambulance crews at the ready and anxious neighbors watching from behind police tape.
In the end, however, police said the June Street resident simply didn't want to talk to anybody. And since he hadn't done anything wrong, after 2 1/2 hours, police packed up and left him alone.
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TV cameras
By adamg - 4/10/09 - 5:54 pm
While I was there, a couple of TV camera guys showed up. In both cases, an officer asked them not to go live, because they didn't want the guy being encouraged to do anything rash by seeing himself on TV (at the time, police weren't sure what they were dealing with).
While it's obviously not the same, I kept wondering what if somebody simply stood there with a wireless-enabled digital camera and streamed the situation live? In addition to the reporter and newspaper photographer types (and me) with digital cameras, there were a couple of residents with cell phones.