Friday, May 31, 2013

Update on Ibragim Todashev incident.

The following is from a May 30 Atlantic Monthly account of reported events and statements regarding the case of the young man being shot and killed during FBI questioning.  Title of article: 

Why Did the FBI Kill an Unarmed Man and Clam Up?
"... It is difficult to understand how, having shot the man dead, the multiple law enforcement personnel on scene could've gotten the details wrong. Discrepancies can creep into an account of a stressful situation. But how can there possibly be confusion about whether the suspect was a) wielding a knife, per the original story; b) unarmed, per subsequent versions; c) or lunging with or toward a samurai sword? We're supposed to believe that multiple law enforcement personnel went to a man's apartment, confirmed via his own confession that he participated in a triple murder with an alleged terrorist, and still left him within reach of a samurai sword? And that, after he lunged toward one agent with the sword, or else lunged toward the sword, or an officer's gun, or something, there was so much confusion that it was reported for days that the suspect attacked with a knife? Come on. Law enforcement couldn't get its story straight.  "   
There are also reports that he was shot either 6 or 7 times and maybe once to the back of  the head.

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