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        reacting calmly to the first explosion               his family were perpetually monitored by
        before leaving the area but, if any                  an FBI agent.

        emotions surfaced on him, it appears
        they were surprise and agitation.                    Not even snippets of what transpired in

        Subsequent footage of him buying milk  court were documented for the public.
        at Whole Foods was framed as evidence  All that was given to indicate a trial ever
        that he appeared without remorse                     took place were cartoons, underlining the                  D

        but, if it does reveal something,                    cartoonish nature of the growing fiction.                  E
        it’s his lack of concern about the                   If the crimes weren’t publicized as post-                  C

        world possibly coming down on him                    9/11 “terrorism,” more of the public                       E
        soon. The Tsarnaev trial exhibits are                likely would have found it suspicious and                  P
        available for public viewing. There are  perhaps outrageous that something as                                   T

        dozens of individual links to pictures,              simple as afterimages of the trial weren’t                 I
        videos, electronic data, etc. but none               provided, because presenting nothing                       O

        of them can be considered legitimate                 but a comic reel of the trial of the United                N
        evidence that the brothers were behind  States’ #1 living alleged terrorist is openly
        what happened or that anyone was                     disrespectful to Americans.

        legitimately hurt. It wasn’t until after
        the public release of the exhibits and               To add to any remaining illusion of

        the defense’s needless portrayal of him  legitimacy, several crisis actors were
        as guilty that a motion for acquittal                reused to help paint over the legal process
        of all thirty charges was filed because              of trying and sentencing him. Some

        prosecution “failed to introduce                     specialized in mourning on command,
        evidence “sufficient to establish each               although the acting was generally quite

        essential element of the offenses                    poor. Some simply regurgitated lies. A
        charged beyond a reasonable doubt.” It  few pawns read scripts from positions of
        received no meaningful attention.                    authority and spoke matter-of-factly about

                                                             things they admittedly had nothing to do
        It is said Dzhokhar was allowed to                   with and otherwise knew nothing about.

        see autopsy photos of his purportedly                One of few equally informative reporters
        dead victims but they are, to this day,              assigned to cover the sentencing, Emily
        forbidden from public viewing. Despite  Rooney from WGBH TV claimed [1:42] to

        purportedly having been the only one                 have been listening to it but only discussed
        given this privilege, he reportedly was  how exceptionally complex the jury’s

        never allowed to as much as talk to                  finding was, while shakily stumbling over
        other inmates and his discussions with  basic descriptions that apply to every trial

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