Sunday, July 28, 2013

Ibragim Todashev is still dead

I hate to keep harping on this subject but here is this corpse that no one is willing to talk about. Ibragim Todashev has been dead since May 22. No new details have emerged since a few days after Todashev was shot dead with 6 wounds to the torso and a seventh through the crown of his head. The FBI has ordered the Florida medical examiner not to release the results of its autopsy and the FBI continues to stonewall behind the facade of "an ongoing investigation." The story has disappeared from print save an occasional article in the Boston newspapers.
Americans would like to think the best about those who enforce their laws but confidence in the Obama Justice Department is hard to find. It could be that eventually Eric Holder will reckon that the shooting was brought about by Florida's stand your ground law that compelled federal agents to almost empty a magazine on a rather diminutive combatant. Todashev's fighting weight was 154 pounds which would put him about 20 pounds lighter than Trayvon Martin but he was a competitive martial arts fighter. So what? He jumped on top of the three officers and pounded their heads into the concrete?
The ACLU despairing of getting justice from the Obama DOJ, has asked, to no avail, the attorney generals of Florida and Massachusetts to get involved in the case. Naturally Massachusetts' Attorney General Martha Coakley has no interest, Todashev being white and male. Florida officials have maintained all along that they have no standing to investigate but that didn't stop sexy Pam Bondi from attempting to railroad George Zimmerman once his case attracted national attention. Someone is shot to death in her state but she doesn't have jurisdiction? If she were so inclined she could sic Angela Corey on Eric Holder and the FBI.
In the ongoing Whitey Bulger trial in Boston the FBI has been shown to be quite corruptible. Corruption reached not just one or two agents but practically the entire Boston field office. The area where the FBI really excels is investigating itself. According to a New York Times investigation, the FBI has cleared itself in nearly every agency-involved shooting of the past 20 years. Was the Todashev killing an execution? What did Todashev know, if anything, about the strange, youthful Saudi national who went from being a bombing suspect to a friend of Michelle Obama? Something about the Todashev shooting is very wrong but I suspect it will become just another one of the "phony scandals" that bedevil this administration.

1 comment:

BOSurvivor said...

I hope this story doesn't fade away. Currently we are phony scandal overload and it does make it hard to keep one's eye on the ball when there are so many balls in play.