As Boston Marathon Bomber Admits Guilt, FBI Sued for Killing Friend of Tsarnaevs in Florida

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Published on Mar 6, 2015

http://democracynow.org - The trial for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has opened in Massachusetts after defense attorneys failed in their repeated bids to move it out of state. Tsarnaev, and his brother Tamerlan, who died in a shootout with police, are accused of planting bombs at the marathon finish line, killing three people and injuring 264 others. On the trial's first day, defense attorneys acknowledged their client's role in the bombings, but said he was heavily influenced by his older brother. The trial comes as the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Florida has announced it will sue the FBI for $30 million on behalf of the family of an unarmed Chechen man killed during questioning over his ties to the Tsarnaev brothers. The FBI says an agent shot Ibragim Todashev in self-defense after Todashev attacked him, but his parents have accused the FBI of killing their son "in cold blood." We speak to Kade Crockford, director of the Technology for Liberty project at the ACLU of Massachusetts. Full transcript.

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1. I read a long piece about Ibragim Todashev some time ago

I can't remember where at the moment or I'd supply the link, but it made it pretty clear the guy was a ticking time bomb very capable of blowing up and attacking an FBI agent. It also made the FBI look incompetent for putting themselves into a dangerous situation

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2. Too late for more excuses for why multiple trained FBI agents riddled his body

with bullets. Then made any independent investigation impossible.

To me it looks like they had to shut him up. And the constantly shifting excuses and revisionist stories about karate, parking disputes, samurai swords, and tipping over tables all sound like bullshit a teenager would make up.

He should have been handcuffed if he was that dangerous.