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As per the usual scenario, you have a suspect in custody and a bomb is expected to go off soon in a known location.
Step 1: Turn on a closed circuit display of the expected target zone. Zero in on as many individual faces of the "innocents" as possible. Discuss what daily business they might be conducting and what family members will feel once they're gone.
If this isn't successful, would you go to a Step 2 of informing the suspect that one of their family members has been located and moved to the target zone? If so, would you actually move the person there, or just say you did?
Calling Jkalos and/or ethics professor to the courtesy phone, please. I think I would arrive at saying I moved the family member but wouldn't actually do it.
