So strange that I haven't said
anything about this before, given that it was
the talk of the office (or at least, my end of it) for two straight days. Ah, well. I've just found the first article I've seen about it that actually puts
an appropriate spin on the whole fiasco, while also pointing out that one of the arrestees (arraignees?),
Peter Berdovsky, is a Belarusian citizen applying for asylum in the United States, and could therefore face deportation back to a country where he is not safe. That'd be a pretty high price to pay so that the public officials of the city of Boston don't have to admit that they fucked up.