33. Here’s How They Got the Second Suspect

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/04/19/boston_marathon_suspect_dzhokhar_tsarnaev_in_serious_condition_here_s_how.html

On April 19, Forrest Wickman; Slate writer, wrote an article talking about how and when they police finally got the second suspect for the bombing in Boston, earlier this week. Wickman begins his article telling his audience that the police first used a robot, flash bangs and a thermal camera to track the second suspect. He also says, that even though the police used all these techniques, in reality what helped the police the most in tracking the suspect, was an encounter with an American citizen earlier that Friday. Wickman then tells the story how the man had noticed blood on his boat that was sitting in the backyard; he then pulled the cover from the boat and saw a man covered in blood. After calling the police, the po9lice went to his house; using a thermal camera they confirmed that it was indeed a live body inside the boat. Wickman then states that shortly after 8:45p.m. They were able to finally capture the suspect. The name of the suspect was Tsarnaev, and the police did not find any explosives on him at the time he was captured. Wickman then ends his article by saying that the police claimed that the reason that he did not have any explosives on him, at the time of his capturing, was because these explosi8ves were thrown on the police at the "shoutout" and that was probably also the time that Tsarnaev was also injured, and then was taken to the hospital in "serious" conditions. 

In this article Wickman writes a very short yet very important message about the bombing suspects from Boston. He begins his article very calm and strong explaining the devices that the police used in order to capture the suspect. Although he does not say that citizens name, he does do an allusion to "American citizen" when explaining that his encounter with the suspect was what made police find him. He also uses strong diction throughout his article showing sympathy to the families of the diseased ones, but also showing disrespect and hatred towards the suspect. He does not use to many rhetorical devices in his article but he persuades the audience to see and to understand how and when the police captured the bombing suspect early this week in Boston, who goes by the name of Tsarnaev.