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Cops accused of being racist AND Islamaphobic for shooting guy who plotted to BEHEAD them

June 3, 2015 | | Print Article

The terrorism suspect shot to death Tuesday in Boston after lunging at a cop and a federal agent with a “military style knife” was plotting with another man to behead a Boston police officer, the Boston Globe reported Wednesday.

Usaama Rahim, 26, a man authorities said was under round-the-clock surveillance, was shot and killed when the officer and agent confronted him, according to the Globe.

Knife recovered at the scene. Photo via Boston Police Department.
Knife recovered at the scene. Photo via Boston Police Department.

“He was someone we were watching for quite a time. The level of alarm brought us to question him today. I don’t think anybody expected the reaction we got out of him,” Boston Police Commissioner William Evans said Tuesday.

Following the arrest of another man, David Wright, in connection with the case Tuesday night, a law enforcement source told the Globe the investigation was related to a plot to kill a law enforcement officer.

Wednesday police sources told the Boston Globe they had to act quickly.

Boston Shooting
Photo credit Scott Eisen via The Boston Globe.

“We believe the intent was to behead a police officer,” a source said. “We knew the plot had to be stopped. They were planning to take action Tuesday.”

Another police official told the Globe Boston police and the FBI and the Joint Terrorism Task Force knew of the plot because of information gathered while the suspects were under surveillance for the past several weeks.

Footage of the confrontation was caught on surveillance cameras and, according to police, shows the officers and FBI agents were approaching Rahim for questioning when he took out the knife and lunged towards them.

Evans said officers retreated and asked Rahim to drop the knife but he continued to come after them.

Boston Shooting
Photo credit Scott Eisen via The Boston Globe.

“It’s a difficult part of our job when we have to take a life,” Evans said. “But clearly, in these circumstances, both the FBI and the Boston police did everything they could possibly do to get this individual to drop his knife. At some point, unfortunately, they had to take the shot.”

Police officials said there were witnesses to the shooting that, accompanied with the surveillance footage, would corroborate their story.

Boston Shooting
Photo credit Scott Eisen via The Boston Globe.

But that didn’t stop the Black Lives Matter crowd and the usual “Islamophobia” suspects from making their groundless accusations.

Rahim’s brother, Boston Imam Ibrahim Rahim, took to Twitter to ask for prayers.

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