At 2:49 pm on April 15th, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev allegedly detonated a bomb at the Boston Marathon. By 8:14pm, he was on Twitter, ostensibly offering his solidarity as a Bostonian, “Ain’t no love in the heart of the city, stay safe people.” At 11:13, he had two conversations with a user named @mellochamp who has a protected account. The second exchange includes this cryptic comment from Tsarnaev: “and they what “god hates dead people?” Or victims of tragedies? Lol those people are cooked.” Since we can’t read the other side of this conversation, it’s hard to understand the context. But it’s pretty creepy considering the accusations against him. At 12:34 in the morning, he had another Tweet: “There are people that know the truth but stay silent & there are people that speak the truth but we don’t hear them cuz they’re the minority.” This tweet was to no one in particular, and it is again a bit creepy under the circumstances. He may have gone to sleep at this point because the next Tweet doesn’t come until 1:14 that afternoon. This one is addressed to another protected account: “<a href="https://twitter.com/J_tsar/status/324209310936752129"@therealAbdul_ you need to get Claritin clear.” Evidently, “The Real Abdul” was having allergy problems. At 1:18 pm, he wrote to Abdul again: “#heavy I’ve been looking for those, there is a shortage on the black market if you wanna make a quick buck, nuff said..” We have no idea what “those” are, but it’s not clear that they have anything to do with the bombing. A few minutes later, he Tweets (to no one in particular): “So then I says to him, I says, relax bro my beard is not loaded.” This is probably a common joke told by Muslims who know that they are viewed with suspicion in this country. The problem is, the joke doesn’t work if you just set off a bomb in a public place.
At 5:09 pm, he responded to a friend of his who had posted a picture of victims. It was about a woman who died in the blast. Supposedly, her boyfriend had been planning to propose to her. Tsarnaev correctly noted that it was “A Fake Story.” His last tweet on Tuesday said, “Nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got somethin to say but nothin comes out when they move their lips; just a bunch of gibberish” could have been referring to
