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More murder by LEA



https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/10/major-questions-remain-unanswered-killing-alleged-boston-isis-beheading-plotter/

Last week in the Boston area, a 26-year-old black Muslim man was shot
and killed by agents of the FBI and Boston Police Department (BPD). As
we documented the following day, major media outlets immediately,
breathlessly and uncritically repeated law enforcement claims (often
anonymous ones) about what happened: that the dead man, Usaamah Rahim,
was on the verge of executing an â??ISIS-inspiredâ?? or â??ISIS-linkedâ?? plot
to behead random police officers, in a conspiracy with at least two
others. When Rahim was walking to work near a CVS drugstore at roughly
7:00 a.m., the officers approached Rahim simply to question him about
this plot; in response, he pulled out a â??macheteâ?? or â??military-style
knifeâ?? that he refused to drop, forcing the officers to shoot him
dead.