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How Boston Police Won the Twitter Wars During the Marathon Bomber Hunt


Celebrating capture

Hundreds celebrated on Hemingway Street in Boston's Fenway neighborhood after police announced the second bombing suspect's capture.

Credit: Kayana Szymczak/Getty Images

The first official announcement that law enforcement agencies had concluded their manhunt for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev didn't come at a press conference by police commissioner Ed Davis or Mayor Tom Menino. It didn't come from a press release or a dispatch over a police scanner.

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