The Times noted “conflicting accounts about basic facts like whether the Chechen man, Ibragim Todashev, attacked an agent with a knife, was unarmed or was brandishing a metal pole.
But Orlando homicide detectives are not independently investigating what happened.”
An Orlando police spokesman told the Times: “We had nothing to do with it… It’s a federal matter, and we’re deferring everything to the F.B.I.”
How did this ever come about? How did local law enforcement surrender their authority to the FBI who constitutionally should only have authority on Federal land?
This was a homicide in Boston. This I assume was a resident of Boston, entitled to any protections that other residents of Boston receive.
Investigating homicides within the borders of Boston is the job of the Boston Police Department.
If not the local police, the Massachusetts State Police should have investigated this homicide. The FBI is bowed down to by local police for no reason. They do not have any authority in the States superior to the local authorities. Actually their only authority is in crimes that cross state lines. This was definitely a crime within the city of Boston.
Believe it or not, if a fed is involved in a deadly force situation, and their ROEs are exponentially more lenient than that of cops, the local jurisdiction can’t really do much about it, unless they conduct their own independent investigation. The feds don’t have to cooperate.
Not sure if you’ve read up on what happened to Lavoy Finicum, but they straight up murdered that guy and the feds obstructed the State Police every step of the way.
The FBI is bowed down to by local police for no reason.
When I first got on the street I thought FBI agents were going to be the end all, be all. That idea quickly disappeared. There were a handful that I worked with that were legit folks, mostly former cops or veterans. Every once in a while you could find a “college kid” that was decent but they were few and far between.
Actually, the FBI killed the man in Florida.
“Conflicting accounts,” having followed dizens, if not hundreds, of police shootings, in this kind of case you can almost certainly give the benefit of the doubt to the victim.
Good afternoon.
I just saw your post. Reminded me of Whitey Bulger.
Which reminded me of Herr Mueller. And Comey.
Which reminds me of another execution. I believe his name was Finicum. A couple of Bundys were wounded also if I recall.
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