Florida state attorney denies reports FBI agent in Todashev shooting cleared

[soundsgreat]

Source: Guardian


Florida state prosecutors on Friday denied that they had cleared an FBI agent who shot dead a friend of the Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev while interrogating him.

The FBI is understood to have concluded that the officer who shot Ibragim Todashev, 27, was left with no alternative but to fire in self defence after being struck on the neck with a metal pole.

But the state attorney in Florida, Jeff Ashton, denied that he had come to the same conclusion. Ashton's spokesman said he had completed his investigation but would make a final decision on how to proceed over the weekend. A review, by the civil rights division of the Department of Justice, is also understood to be complete.

Ashton issued an angrily worded statement on Friday after media reports claimed he had decided not to charge the officer, saying the leaks on which they were based were “inaccurate and unfair”.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/21/fbi-agent-tamerlan-tsarnaev-todashev-shooting

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Here is one of the false reports:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-agent-cleared-in-florida-shooting-of-suspect-questioned-about-boston-bombing/2014/03/21/86495e94-b101-11e3-9627-c65021d6d572_story.html

What's going on here? Who's behind the fake leak? The FBI?

[jsr]

1. Nothing will happen to the agent

[soundsgreat]

2. you're probably right

however, I'm still looking for Ashton's decision. I don't think he will give the agent a 100% exculpation.

[billhicks76]

10. Move Along...

Nothing to see here. Always remember conspiracies do not exist only coincidences. Label anyone who dares question anything a conspiracy theorist. Demonize them and the word always. Everything is normal.

[Kelvin Mace]

3. FBI will skate

like the have the last, 100+ shootings.

[jsr]

4. The F.B.I. Deemed Agents Faultless in 150 Shootings

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/19/us/in-150-shootings-the-fbi-deemed-agents-faultless.html
The F.B.I. Deemed Agents Faultless in 150 Shootings
By CHARLIE SAVAGE and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
Published: June 18, 2013

[MADem]

5. Well, they put the false report on a blurb on the news on TV....

No idea what the deal is.

[okaawhatever]

6. These two things aren't mutually exclusive. The FBI and DOJ could have cleared him, but the state

Attorney General may not have come to a conclusion yet.

[soundsgreat]

7. but there ARE reports that the AG has come to a conclusion

and they are obviously wrong. Who was the informant for the wrong reports, and what motivated him?

[okaawhatever]

8. OK. I thought it was just a misinterpretation of who had cleared him. thx for clarifying. nt

[pragmatic_dem]

9. They'll follow Holder's lead, powerful/rich people, law enforcement, high ranking employees

of the government, can torture, kill, rip-off trillions from citizens, dump a few hundred million barrels of oil (after killing a bunch of people) and there will be no prosecutions. No convictions. Ever.

You know, gotta take care of too big to fail.

Just don't get caught downloading too many documents from MIT. He's on your ass in a second with the full force of the Dept. of Justice.

[SoCalMusicLover]

11. So, Monday Will Bring Charges Then?

I'll believe it when I don't see it.

[MrScorpio]

12. Of course, they did. nt

[chelsea0011]

13. "a metal pole"as in a flag pole? Where did a metal pole come from?

[Sunlei]

14. a FBI 'interview' for hours in the mans apartment? I don't believe the agent or whoever other

'police' were there.