“Even the police’s version of events, if believed, raises all sorts of questions. They say Rahim was under “24-hour surveillance” by the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, and were monitoring him for at least two years. When they approached him, they had no arrest or search warrant, but instead simply wanted to question him. When they did so, he pulled out his knife, and when he refused to put it away and walked toward them, they shot and killed him.
There are numerous questions raised by all of this. If Rahim was so dangerous, why didn’t the constant surveillance result in any charges? If — as the media spent all day claiming — he was on the verge of executing a horrific terror attack, why didn’t law enforcement agents have an arrest warrant or even search warrant? What was their intention in approaching him this way? Were they wearing uniforms, and — supposedly believing he was an ISIS operative eager to kill police — did they do anything to make him feel threatened?”
Police have every right to question someone.
If someone talks about blowing something up and then buys bomb making materials the police have a case. Otherwise it is just talk.
If someone talks about removing someones head it is pretty darn hard to make a case that they were actually going to do it. If questioning him pushed his buttons enough to act on his intentions well good for the police.
I guess you wanted him to behead the police officer first? Then there’d be cause to stop and question him?