An advocacy group called for a civil rights investigation on Wednesday into the death of Ibragim Todashev, the Chechen immigrant killed by an FBI agent in Orlando during questioning about his relationship with one of the Boston Marathon bombers.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations asked the Department of Justice to open a probe into Todashev’s death to see if the man’s rights were violated or if excessive force was used against him.
The FBI originally said Todashev was killed after lunging at an agent with a knife, although according to NBC News, FBI agents later said that Todashev was unarmed.
