the police. we saw just last week they released the police reports of the laquan mcdonald incident from the officers on the scene. all of those reports backing the officer and directly contradicted by the videotape that was released earlier. but as i say, this march through downtown washington really showing the anger that s been festering and building up and reaching the boiling point with the release of the laquan mcdonald tape. right. downtown chicago, right? festering. downtown chicago. going through the northern part of the loop. for people who aren t familiar, that s the sort of central business area. exactly. of chicago. the financial district, state street. a lot of shopping. south of the sort of the magnificent mile, the stretch of michigan avenue where the high-end shops are. the police some of the protesters were talking about
running away, toward you, from what was that explosion of that bomb. those injured people, are they bloodied people coming toward you? caller: most of the people who were injured were on the ground. one guy was at the corner. he had a bloody leg. nothing that seemed extremely traumatic to me until i saw the people on the other side of the street where the bomb went off. that s where the people were missing limbs. i saw one guy with red sneakers on with shoelaces untied. i realized that was not the case. that was actually a guy with legs blown off. one thing that was striking, i grew up here, i am from the area. i reported here my whole life. it s incredible. you love the boston marathon. it s a day of joy. you watch the runners come in. you are excited for them.
to navigate a sidewalk and know whether or not somebody has a bomb. all you need is a sidewalk. when people wonder about security, how do you secure a sidewalk, public and open. that s what happened here. knowing that area, i don t know how they could secure any of that. it s as we know, it s a very upscale, commercial neighborhood with higher priced stores. it s a very high end residential neighborhood a couple blocks away there. caller: one more thing, lawrence. go ahead. caller: mentioning the kind of neighborhood, there s tons of stores and restaurants. newbury street is the next street over. when we made it back around 4:00, every single store was closed. it was a ghost town. you know how it is on boston marathon day, it s a zoo, people everywhere.
we kind of just stayed in the area trying to figure out what was happening. then, as more as more people were coming our way, coming away from the explosion, we started kind of putting two and two together and then we started heading back toward mass avenue and away from the explosions. taylor, where we seem to be hearing tonight is there were not a lot of injured or bloody people walking around because most of the injuries were below the waist. most of the injuries were to the legs, so people were disabled, if they were injured. so did you see injured people leaving the scene? caller: no. i didn t see any injuries what so ever. the only injuries i have seen were via pictures. that is correct. no one who was injured was walking around. thankfully, i didn t see anything. i honestly don t know what i have have done if i saw
they are looking at surveillance video to see if they can see anyone placing packages at the points where the bombs went off. they described them with crude and less explosive power. they stressed tonight there is no suspect in custody, but they are talking to a 20-year-old saudi man here on a currently valid student visa. he was seen running from the area, but he had serious burns. he s in a hospital and being questioned there. lawrence? pete, i have been impressed with the caution and precision of your coverage all day. there have been a lot of different things that passed through the media today that turned out to be rumors and not true or not true at that time. how would you guide us and the media in going forward here and what we should be careful of as we look at these developments? well, i think the thing that stands out to me tonight is they really don t have a direction one way or the other as to who