The controversial moment SWAT teams ordered innocent neighbors out of their houses at GUNPOINT during door-to-door searches for the Boston bomber

A startling home-made video now shows the terrifying moments where Watertown residents were forced out of their homes at gunpoint as SWAT teams performed door-to-door searches as they hunted the second marathon bomber.

While millions of Bostonians waited in their houses on Friday during the city-wide lockdown, the people of Watertown were faced with SWAT officers yelling at them to get out of the buildings immediately.

At the time, the Boston police department and federal agents were barely criticized, but now many are concerned about the dangerous precedent that could lead to more police searches using the rationale of ‘exigent circumstances’ as an excuse.



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Scary sight: A Watertown, Massachusetts resident films from his window as a neighbor's house is the target of a SWAT team search on Friday as they looked for the marathon bomber

The video, shot by an unidentified Watertown resident, shows a team of SWAT officers wielding semi-automatic guns bang on his neighbor’s front door and scream for them to get out of the house’.

The residents are whisked away- hands in the air, one by one- to a nearby group of officers as the SWAT team searches the house for the second shooter, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Early reports, made by journalists who were kept out of Watertown by a police barricade, said that the searches were voluntary.

Now, the video published on right-wing conservative news blog InfoWars, asserts that the searches were involuntary, as all residents were forced out of their homes whether they liked it or not.

Involuntary: At first the searches were thought to be voluntary but this video suggests otherwise Rushed out: All of the people in the house were forced out of their home one by one, with their hands up

VIDEO Incredible footage shows Watertown raid as it happened...

The six-minute video shows just one search of the suburban town’s homes during the day-long lockdown.

While the outside world looked to the media gathered on the perimeter of Watertown, those trapped inside the search area looked outside to scary sights.



Resident Lauren Kelleher said she saw State Police with massive automatic weapons in her backyard, walking past her children's swing set and a plastic silver castle.

'The troopers went through. They looked in our yard, they looked in our garage,' she said.

'It was crazy,' said her husband, Tim Kelleher. 'We had SWAT teams, ATF on our lawn.'

Search: The media was kept outside of Watertown during the day-long search, that culminated with the discovery of the 19-year-old suspect who was found only after the lockdown was lifted

Watertown police chief Edward Deveau said a resident was checking his boat after the lockdown was lifted Friday evening and noticed the straps weren't the way he left them.

He looked in the boat, saw blood and someone huddled in a corner and quickly called police. The discovery set up the final confrontation and capture with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Officials used Dumitru Ciuc's home as a staging area, taking out the windows and ripping down curtains and window blinds to monitor the boat.

'They didn't say nothing,' about why they were there.

'They just said leave the house and go up the street.'

While the circumstances clearly led many to be sympathetic to the needs of the police, now that the manhunt is over, critics are fearful of the consequences of such cooperation in the future.

The specific concerns stems from the rejection of the Fourth Amendment, which protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures.

Worrisome welcome: Men, women and children were forced out of their homes during the Friday searches

Scary precedent: Conservatives are now fearful that such actions will be taken in the future

‘While armies of police roamed around people’s homes and private property, Public transportation was shut down, businesses were forced to close, and a no-fly zone was enacted over Boston in an unprecedented show of force,’ InfoWars correspondent Steve Watson wrote.

‘At this point, as military helicopters buzzed over neighborhoods, the Fourth Amendment had ceased to exist in Boston, which quickly resembled a war zone.’

This is not the first Boston marathon bombing controversy that InfoWars has been involved in, as contributor Dan Bidondi posed a loaded question at one of the first press conferences after the Monday bombings that killed three and injured more than 180, suggesting that perhaps it was a government job.

He implied that it may be a false flag bombing, done by the federal government to scare people into allowing more control over citizens’ daily lives. The allegations were promptly dismissed by officials.

