Florida law enforcement has declined to investigate the FBI’s fatal shooting of a Chechen man connected to the Boston Marathon bombing during an interrogation in Orlando, the Boston Globe reported Wednesday.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Gerald M. Bailey wrote a letter to the American Civil Liberties Union that said the FBI and Justice Department would be in charge of an investigation, according to the Globe, and it “would be inappropriate” for his department to intervene.
Florida and Massachusetts chapters of the ACLU had asked officials in both states to investigate the shooting because local law enforcement officials were present at the interrogation. The executive director of Florida’s ACLU chapter, Howard Simon, told the Globe it was “extremely disappointing” that Florida officials would allow the FBI to continue “investigating itself.” Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley had already declined to investigate.
Multiple reports following the shooting of Ibragim Todashev, a friend of alleged bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, said that Todashev was unarmed when an FBI agent fatally shot him in May.
