'We have this sort of tidy account of it and a kind of certainty that did not characterize almost anything of that week,' former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said of the marathon bombing. 'It feels distant and like yesterday at the same time.'
It’s been a decade since former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick helped the Commonwealth navigate the chaos of a terror attack, but those frantic five days in April 2013 are never far from his memory.
"He was always a rock and calm and cool as a cucumber. He was rattled. He said, 'Governor, I've never seen anything like this. There are body parts all over the street. I don't know if it was a gas explosion or what happened, but you better get down here.'" More than 200 people were hurt after two explosions near the finish line. Patrick said he's never seen such carnage, and the images sometimes come flooding back.
"We put heads together right at the beginning and said, 'Look, you all have something to do here in terms of the law enforcement part and in solving this crime, but one agency has to be in charge. You guys and gals can decide who it is, but we're going to decide that right now.'" Patrick recalled."They settled on the FBI. They were pretty coherent. They stuck together. The FBI was in charge, but everybody had a contribution to make and they made their contribution.
Another tough call that still resonates with the former governor was the shelter-in-place request he made as law enforcement went door-to-door in Watertown searching for the second suspect. He said there is a misconception that's formed over the last decade about that request. "We tried real hard and come up with nothing. There was a good faith that the public had in all of us and how we were managing it. It felt like that could have been jeopardized just then," he remembers."We couldn't ask, and wouldn't ask, people to shelter in place anymore. But we couldn't say we were giving the all clear because we didn't know. And I wasn't quite sure how to explain that.
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