by Mary W Maxwell
As reported at Gumshoe, the Watertown Public Library in Massachusetts provided a venue for me to give a talk entitled “The Tsarnaev Trial.” It was held on January 23, 2018 at 7pm. During the talk I had the feeling that the pro-Tsarnaev crowd was sitting up front and the anti-Tsarnaev crowd at the back. (There was a big gap in the middle.)
Immediately after the talk we had Open Mic, for about an hour. Twelve persons spoke, most of them locals. The big surprise was that one of the speakers was Watertown police supervisor Sgt John MacLellan. Or should I say the big surprise was what he offered in the way of “new information.”
I’ll tell you in a moment what he said about Collier’s death and the naked man episode, but first let me mention that he said to me “You have a lot of gall for getting up and doing this.” (He did not say it in a hostile way.) For the record I would like to state that there was not the slightest bit of courage involved on my part, and that I am just as scared as everyone else (probably more so, since I know some really, really scary stuff…).
Any gall I deployed that night arises from three sources. First, common sense. My report on the malfeasance of Jahar’s trial contained one fact after another. It doesn’t take any special gumption to rattle off some documented facts, does it?
Second, my good ol’ Bible-based righteous wrath. It never lets me down. By the way, a friend of mine brought up her son without religion so he would be “free to choose a religion at age 18.” Too late! You have to have it drummed in early.
The third source of what may have looked like gall that night was simply the astonishing amount of support I had received from Bostonians in the fortnight leading up to the event.
A Watertowner even provided a little catwalk where I could try out costumes to wear for the lecture. Such fun! I was propelled along by her support, and it was exciting to feel that peeps were saying “Mary, we depend on you to get it right.” I had never been in that position before in my life. Heady stuff, defo.
Before we get to the Open Mic review, here’s a quick timeline of the “official narrative” of 2013 Marathon:
Monday, April 15, near 3pm, two bombs explode in Boston
Thursday, April 18, 5pm on TV, FBI man DesLauriers (standing shoulder-to-shoulder with prosecutor Carmen Ortiz) tells the public two men have been picked out, from surveillance and citizens’ videos, “and here are their portraits” — Bomber One and Bomber Two
Thursday, April 18, 10.20pm Officer Sean Collier is shot dead in his car at MIT, Cambridge
Thursday, April 18, 11:30pm, Dun Meng reports he was carjacked
Friday, April 19, 12.30 am, a big shootout in darkness at Laurel St (Of course I don’t believe that involved the Tsarnaevs, as I think the Podstava video and the CNN naked man video hold the truth).
The Sergeant Wore White
Perhaps the police officer shouldn’t have attended the Watertown Library lecture. Why? Because he did not have the usual controls over what he would say. He was not “in uniform” and could not intimidate anyone. Nor could he fall back on the silent routine of “We’re not allowed to give out any information about that.”
MacLellan seemed to speak from the heart. First, he answered a question from the floor about why his Watertown staff was one-man-short that night. It seems that a Watertown cop had popped over to Cambridge in relation to the Collier murder. I quote MacLellan:
“Girl was at a night class at MIT. Saw the officer get assassinated. She was so scared, she ran. Got on the bus. When she got home, told her father. Father called the police station. Told what the daughter had just seen. And we sent a police car…[for her] to be interviewed, and as our officer was taking her we got the call about the shoot-out [in Watertown].”
He then implied that this fantastic lead, a new witness of Collier’s murder, had to be abandoned because something else came up – namely the shoot-out on Laurel St — or as I prefer to call it, the non-shoot-out on Laurel St.
By the way, I didn’t catch why the girl from the MIT night class would be of interest to police in Watertown. At that point, Thursday night, April 18, 2013, the Watertown aspect the Marathon story had not yet come into being.
Reminder: that aspect came into being around 11.40pm when Dun Meng said he had been carjacked, and thus it was knowable via that car’s tracking device, that Tamerlan, was en route to Watertown.
Come to think of it, I doubt that night classes go as late as 10pm on the MIT campus, so how would the girl have seen the “assassination” of Collier, which is recorded by MIT as having taken place at 10.20pm? And is the Koch building near classrooms?
Let’s leave aside the whole girl-witness thing; surely it is a distractor.
Two Naked Men
I would have shown the Podstava video during my lecture – except I was determined to use only the material from the court case — and that video was never referred to at Jahar’s trial. Indeed it is the absolute rebuttal to the whole story of Tamerlan having died in a shoot-out with police on Laurel St Watertown at 12.35 pm. (We call it the Podstava video because Tamerlan yells “Podstava” meaning “It’s a set-up.” Or “I’m a patsy.”)
Following the lecture, during the Open Mic, I did run the Podstava video. It’s on Youtube — it was filmed by a local named Big Headphones. It shows Tamerlan being frisked at 1:05am Friday, on the ground at 546 Mt Auburn St (which is Watertown’s main drag).
Separately, there is a CNN video of Tamerlan being led, naked, into a cop car — CNN photographer Gabe Ramirez announces “They have arrested two suspects.” That was broadcast before 4am Friday, April 19th.
By the way, I think that means that both brothers were captured at that point, and that the FBI kept Jahar in hiding for the next 17 hours until he was “discovered” by layperson David Henneberry, the owner of a boat on Franklin St, on Friday at 6pm.
Note: in my perusal of the area in January I saw many boats parked in the snow, including canoes. It’s funny how the house lots are so skinny that the boat Jahar was in was only a few meters from the house, but in the film it looks like a greater distance.
Oh, here’s an aside for you: a resident near Franklin St told me that two cop cars were parked in front of Henneberry’s home all day Friday (“as though to prevent anyone going near the boat, pre-discovery”). Wow. I also heard that Franklin St was spared the door-to-door searches that other streets endured. Hmm.
Who Stripped Billy?
Having put the Podstava video up, during the Open Mic session, I grabbed the chance to ask Sgt MacLellan to tell us about the two naked men. One of them appears in the Gabe Ramirez CNN video (I wonder if poor Ramirez has been sent on sabbatical to the Bahamas.) It shows the real Tamerlan — the private parts have been pixelated out, but his boxer-like shoulder muscles are on display. It is clearly the one, the only, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, alive and well – though scheduled to be killed in custody, I claim.
The picture of another naked man – let’s call him Billy – was also shown on TV, perhaps within hours of Tamerlan’s arrest. I am guessing that Billy was brought in quickly to cover for the booboo of the Podstava capture on Mt Auburn St.
I pointed to the photo of Billy being photographed, up against a wall, with a plainclothes cop (of a Feeb?) is standing by his side. I asked Sgt MacLellan for an explanation. He offered:
“I was there at that scene. I went up to that scene and I told them to release him.
Yours Truly interjects: “But who is this guy?” The sergeant says:
“We tried to contact this gentleman [“Billy”] from that night, we put it out on social media. We tried to contact him because it was an outside agency who stripped him… and wanted to apologize to him..”
Yours Truly interjects with horror “An outside agency?”
“It was Boston police or state police [sorry, but I don’t call them “outside agencies”] , it was not Watertown police. Apparently the story that was told to us is that he did not speak English, they were telling him to show his hands, he wouldn’t. Whether he was under the influence of alcohol or didn’t understand, he might have had bombs so they told him ‘Keep taking things off, keep taking things off’ — I didn’t see that but that’s the story we were told.”
(Note the phrase “story we were told” — And how did no-spicka-the-English Billy understand the order “Keep taking things off?”)
Yours Truly then asked: “What you just said, are you talking about … Tamerlan?”
“They stripped him of clothes and it was not Tamerlan. He was released that night.”
Just fathom it. A man is thought to be, perhaps, the Marathon bomber (three deaths and 264 injuries, many amputations) and nobody records his ID. Even a jaywalker has to provide ID these days. Even someone who’s only contemplating jaywalking may be asked to show a passport.
And they used social media so they could give him the police’s apology even though it was “an outside agency”? I’d like to see some nice turf warfare her – it is long overdue. I am pro-cop and anti-Feeb. There’s nothing like a good cockfight.
Pro-cop?
Yes I am pro cop, even when they have a history of, shall we say, “taking advantage of their power.” (And which of us does not take advantage of power, if we can scrounge some up?)
I am even pro this particular cop, Sgt John MacLellan. Granted, I have just knocked him for putting forth two highly implausible stories – the disappearing female witness to the killing of Collier, and the general failure to explain Billy.
But MacLellan made a good show of disgust as to what happened boatside, pretty much indicating that cops went nuts. And he spoke in a most interesting manner about watching the death of Tamerlan on Laurel St. Although I don’t think the shooter at Laurel St was Tamerlan, I do think MacLellan, and his colleague Sgt Pugliese, really did tussle with someone in the wee hours of April 19th. I’m looking forward to learning more about this.
Truth Commission City
Meanwhile, I can say that holding an Open Mic was like holding a mini-Truth Commission. Each person was invited to say whatever was on his/her mind. And don’t forget, a lot of people have been harbouring secrets for almost five years now. Recall the “the Zoologist” who kept a journal of the events of Marathon week, 2013, and had no way of publishing it until a chance meeting with me in New Hampshire.
I would even guess that the Sergeant of the Hour has been waiting a long while to emote. He deserves to tell of his truly shocking night in Watertown.
The audience turnout for my lecture was not great, given that umpteen posters announcing the event were hung in shop windows, churches, and colleges, but who knows, the idea might catch on.
Heartfelt thanks to the free Public Library for not “cancelling the venue” as was expected by certain pessimists. And note: we had been told, in the Watertown News’ Letters to the Editor, that some folks would not attend as they were afraid to appear on camera — so we set up an overflow room with a sign “no cameras, no recording.” Nobody went to that room, and a good time was had by all in the main room.
–Mary Maxwell hopes a good time will be had by all at her Fringe show in Adelaide on March 18. Details to follow.
I have a pleasant correction to offer, not to the article but to my yakking at the Open Mic. First, I had correctly said, in the lecture, that the US Supreme Court will soon rule on a case like Jahar’s where the Defender insisted on saying he was guilty. The case is McCoy v Louisiana.
Then during the Open Mic session, someone handed me a note to say he looked it up on his cell phone and the Supremes have ruled against Mr McCoy. I was appalled and did a sort of little primal scream right there on TV. But later that guy told me he had wrongly reported — it was the State supreme court that gave McCoy the negative. So, in fact — thank the Deity — the case hasn’t yet been decided.
Another correction — not of the article but of the Open Mic performance. Until today, when Dee found my error, I thought that there was a naked man shown getting into a cop car, who was “additional” to the picture of Tamerlan. We all know that the main “naked man” video on CNN, where Gabe Ramirez talks, is Tamerlan. Thus I goofed in the Watertown Library when I pointed to the bare shouldered-man and said it was “Billy”.
No need for readers to worry about this; I just want to put my correction on record. There will be a Gumshoe article about “The controversial passing of Tamerlan” later this month, Insha’allah.
No doubt Billy is still alive and I wish he would email mary.maxwell@alumni.adelaide.edu.au
As long as we’re in correction mode here, may I mention Judge Roy Moore of Alabama? Two friends have sent me today’s headline that he is asking for money to help with the lawsuit against him. They want me to eat crow.
OK I’m a crow eater [oops, in South Australia that has another connotation]. But I never said “We must support Moore because he is innocent.” I did figure he was innocent, based on the way the dirt came out — i.e. from WaPo. I still don’t know what-all he did, but I stopped being interested when the girl sued him recently and he did not countersue for defamation.
My pals in Tuscaloosa think it was a set-up from Day One in order to add a Democrat to the Senate. AL has only 25% of its registered voters in the Dem party, so you would have to make a Repub candidate do something pretty outrageous to achieve that end.
Makes me think the whole point of parties is to give folks a way to identify with a group and then be called upon to be loyal (i.e., hate the rival group). Pah-thet- ic.
On the morning that Doug Jones won (he’s the Dem and I oppose him for other reasons) I saw what a relief it must have been for almost all Bama’s blacks — who get left out because they are Dems, see? — and for all gays, who had to put up with Moore telling them day in and day out that they are some kind of vermin.
Still, Mr Moore recites Banjo Paterson well, and we can’t take that away from him.
This from Newsday
https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/mit-police-officer-killed-in-on-campus-shooting-1.5102235
“Gunfire and explosions pierced the night in two usually quiet Boston-area communities late Thursday and early Friday as an MIT campus police officer was shot and killed and law enforcement officers pursued two suspects in a high-speed chase after they had reportedly carjacked a vehicle.
“State police said the carjacked Mercedes came to a stop in Watertown and the suspects opened fire on the pursuing police officers. One of the suspects lit what officials described as an explosive and threw it in the officers’ direction, police said.
“A state police spokesman, Dave Procopio, confirms explosives have been involved in this ongoing situation.
“The suspect then advanced on officers and was tackled and taken into custody as was the other suspect, officials said. One of the suspects was ordered to strip naked and was interviewed on the street.”
SO — Two suspects
– One of the suspects lit what officials described as an explosive and threw it in the officers’ direction,
-The suspect then advanced on officers and was tackled and taken into custody as was the other suspect, officials said. One of the suspects was ordered to strip naked
Does this mean the naked man in custody threw the explosive?
Lots of theatre
Dee, the bit in your report that is news to me (fake news to me?) is:
“officers pursued two suspects in a high-speed chase after they had reportedly carjacked a vehicle.”
Until now, I had never heard of the Tsarnaevs being chased on the road.
As for “two suspects being arrested” that must mean the two brothers, not Tam-and-Billy.
O what a tangled web we weave……….
That’s why I posted the comment…. the whole thing is so crazy. Re: my comment about “theatre”
The fact that there was report of a chase makes me wonder if the original script had called for a chase, but it was abandoned and then they couldn’t reach all the reporters in time to cancel it.
There are also stories about at least two other men who were considered “wanted” regarding Collier’s death (not to mention the rumor that there never was a Collier), but I have no interest in researching it. Indeed much of this gets tossed around on social media for the sole purpose (I imagine) of taking our eyes off the prize.
And what be that prize? The rescue of the rule of law.
Sra Mary Maxwell!! Congratulation for support the Young Dzhokhar…the Brothers os innocent.
Please tradicion
1/Porque motivado os irmãos Tsarbaev teriam de ir até o MIT, matar Sean Collien?
2/ Os irmãos Tsarnaevs conheciam o policial Sean Colliem?
Dear Florindo, With Babelfish.com guiding me as to your Portuguese, I offer this answer to the qq Why did they go to MIT and did they know Collier?
I am told that there were rumors about Jahar knowing Collier but I have no information.
As to why the brothers went to that campus that night, I assume they did NOT go there. If I have ever seen thin evidence in my life it is the visual “evidence” of Suspects One and Two making their way across the parking lot in the dark to perform a ridiculous murder.
Florindo, are you a betting man? I’ll bet you a hundred clams (i.e., USD) that someone at MIT produced that “surveillance video” . You understand what I mean by “produced”?
If you agree to bet that it was NOT produced, that is, that the personnel at MIT submitted the item honestly, we will then have to decide how you and I are going to resolve the bet. We will need a third party to act as judge.
Are none of you aware that I brought together 12 experts on the Boston marathon in the book, AND NOBODY DIED IN BOSTON, EITHER? (2016), referring to the bombing itself? The police were on bullhorns yelling, “This is a drill! This is a drill!” The Globe was tweeting that a demonstration bomb would be set off during the marathon for the benefit of bomb squad activities. Peering through the smoke, you could see bodies missing arms and legs, but there was no blood! I have done a great deal of research and presentations on this and other staged events. For my latest on Boston, see “False Flags on Five Fronts”, BitChute, https://www.bitchute.com/video/oStVfus9n3DJ/ The people of Boston, including Watertown, have been played BIG TIME! You need to get a grip on the truth.