The family of Ibrahim Todashev, who had some type of relation to the suspects of the Boston Bombing, has planned to sue the FBI $30 million over the fatal shooting.
Todashev, a Muslim immigrant, 27, was killed in May 2013 in his Orlando apartment. He was also an acquaintance of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two brothers accused of the bombing of the Boston Marathon. He was shot and killed by an FBI agent during questioning about his links with the Boston suspects.
In 2013 he was shown seven times at his Orlando home by an FBI agent, who was investigating his relationship with Tsarnaev and their connections.
The agent shot Todashev in an act of self-defense after he became very angry during a questioning and began to swing a pole.
However, Todashev’s family believes that the FBI used excessive force. This notice had been brought up by their lawyers at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). They had also said that the FBI was negligent in hiring the agent; the same agent had also been in involved with two previous police brutality lawsuits and four internal-affairs investigations.
“My son fell victim to the fact of having an acquaintance,” said his father, Abdulbaki Todashev, as he told reporters in Moscow.
An FBI spokesman said the agency does not comment on pending litigation. CAIR spokesman, Ali Kurnaz, told a press conference in Orlando there are a lot of things that happened that day we don’t know… there are things that just don’t add up.
The autopsy report and video from the interrogation that had not been publicity released, was an example, he said.
The CAIR accused the FBI of “careless hiring practices” involving FBI agent Aaron McFarlane as well as a lax internal review that cleared him in Todashev’s death.
Todashev’s parents had issued a statement through the CAIR in Russia saying that their son “was killed by the FBI in cold blood.”
“Today, together with CAIR Florida, we are starting a process that will bring, as we hope, justice to our son, our family, and our world.”
The Department of Justice and a Florida State Attorney’s office have both cleared McFarlane (FBI agent) of wrongdoing in the shooting at Ibragim Todashev’s apartment.
Official reports said that the agent had acted in self-defense after being attacked by Todashev.
The Russian immigrant, who had resided in Massachusetts before moving to Florida, was writing a confession for involvement in the 2011 killing of three people, when he out of nowhere threw a coffee table and swung a broom toward McFarlane.