Same pattern again and again, both in Oakland and at FBI - law enforcement as state crime organizations. And obviously, the public will never know the truth regarding the Boston Marathon bombing - law enforcement kill any possible witness.
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TODASHEV’S KILLER: NO WONDER HIS IDENTITY WAS SECRET
As with most aspects of the Boston Marathon bombing, the official answers leave us asking: what else are they hiding?
Doubts about the already controversial shooting of Boston Bombing figure Ibragim Todashev in Florida last year are sure to grow with new revelations about the FBI agent who shot him.
As WhoWhatWhy previously reported, the case is full of anomalies and part of a largerpattern of harassment against Chechen-Americans who knew accused bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Like everything related to the bombing, Todashev’s killing is swaddled in official secrecy and the U.S. government’s latest report about the Boston tragedy shows there was plenty to be secretive about.
Emerging details about the FBI shooter’s past cry out for further inquiries about the FBI itself. How could they hire an officer with such a history?
Officials refused to identify anyone present during the May 22, 2013, shooting of Todashev, a 27-year-old mixed martial arts fighter, in his Orlando apartment. But Florida State Attorney Jeffrey L. Ashton’s report on the shooting did so—inadvertently—despite the FBI’s request to remove any identifying information.
On May 14, 2014, the Boston Globe identified Aaron McFarlane, 41, as the agent who emptied half his ammunition clip into Todashev. It uncovered his name by “removing improperly created redactions” in PDF files from the Florida report.
Digging through public records, the newspaper discovered McFarlane had been accused of brutality—twice—while serving as an Oakland police officer in lawsuits that were settled out of court. (McFarlane and another officer were allegedly beating up someone who had already been subdued when they noticed a bystander photographing the incident. Then they attacked the bystander.)
He also took the Fifth Amendment and later testified under immunity during a corruption investigation into a rogue police unit called “The Riders” whose members were charged with making false arrests, planting evidence, and falsifying police reports. The city settled the federal lawsuit for $10.9 million. McFarlane wasn’t charged in that case, or in three other internal affairs investigations, although a prosecutor accused him of being misleading.
McFarlane retired from the Oakland Police Department in 2004 on medical disability after repeatedly injuring his leg and breaking his ankle, securing a lifetime $52,000-a-year pension. Four years later he joined the FBI, raising questions about how he passed both the rigorous background check and the FBI’s physical requirements.
The Globe story advanced the work of the Boston Marathon Bombings blog which, in a May 3 post, explained how it used simple software to find the names of McFarlane and Massachusetts State Troopers Curtis Cinelli and Joel Gagne. It also recovered a picture of what the investigators said was Todashev’s unfinished, handwritten confession of involvement in a 2011 triple murder in Waltham, Mass. Authorities were already investigating Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s links to those slayings.
Among the other finds is a photograph of the gash on McFarlane’s head, which the report says was caused when Todashev struck him with a table. It gives no explanation as to why McFarlane turned his back on an agitated Todashev, a physically dangerous suspect who had a sticker of an AK-47 on the front door of his apartment.
The agent was cleared of any wrongdoing by an FBI internal review. That’s no shock. The FBIalways clears its agents of wrongdoing in shootings.
Ashton cleared him too, but notes that the FBI complicated the analysis by limiting the Florida investigators’ access to McFarlane to a signed, sworn statement. Why didn’t the FBI let a fellow law enforcement agency follow its usual investigative procedures and make McFarlane available for an interview?
As with most aspects of the Boston Marathon bombing, the official answers leave us asking: what else are they hiding?
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![Photo: ===2014-04-08 #OccupyTLV: Appeal on complaint (481/14) against Tel Aviv Police Commander Benzi Sau was forwarded for review by State Counsel Central Bureau //
ערר על תלונה (481/14) נגד ניצב בנצי סאו, מפקד מחוז ת"א הועבר לבדיקה ע"י הלשכה הראשית בפרקליטות המדינה===
http://www.scribd.com/doc/225237453/
The complaint originated in conduct of Tel Aviv Police including:
1) Operation for area surveillance, where OccupyTLV dwellers were pulled out of their tents in the middle of the night for no reason at all.
2) Closing of criminal complaint against Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Hulday on fraud and extortion, relative to the distribution of flyers that were falsely represented as “decrees”.
3) Collusion of the Tel Aviv in the false enforcement of “demolition decrees”, which never existed.
התלונה נובעת מהתנהלות משטרת ת"א, ובכללה:
1) "פעולה להכרת השטח" במהלכה הוצאו תושבי המאהל מאוהליהם באמצע הלילה ללא כל סיבה.
2) סגירת תלונה פלילית נגד ראש עיריית ת"א על הונאה וסחטנות, בקשר להפצת פליירים והצגתם הכוזבת כ"צווי הריסה".
3) שיתוף פעולה בין משטרת ישראל ועיריית ת"א באכיפה חסרת בסיס חוקי של "צווי הריסה" שלא היו ולא נבראו.
LINKS
[1] 2014-01-27 OccupyTLV: Request for Equal Protection Under the Law, and Complaint (481/2014) against Israel Police, Tel Aviv District Commander BENZI SAU, filed with the Police Investigations Section of Israel State Prosecution (full English translation)
מאהל המחאה ת"א: תלונה שהוגשה למח"ש נגד ניצב בנצי סאו, מפקד מחוז ת"א.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/202436463/
[2] 2014-02-06 OccupyTLV: Response by State Prosecution in re: Criminal complaint against Israel Police Tel-Aviv District Commander Benzi Sau (481/2014)
מאהל המחאה ת"א: תשובת פרקליטות המדינה-מח"ש על תלונה נגד מפקד מחוז ת"א בנצי סאו
http://www.scribd.com/doc/208552579/
[3] 2014-02-22 OccupyTLV: Appeal to State Prosecutor, in re: Criminal complaint against Tel Aviv Police Commander Benzi Sau (481/2014) (full English translation)
מאהל המחאה ת"א: ערר לפרקליטות המדינה על סגירת תלונה פלילית נגד מפקד מחוז ת"א ניצב בנצי סאו - 481/2014
http://www.scribd.com/doc/208557026/
[4] 2014-04-29 OccupyTLV: Response by Tel Aviv District Commander-Israel Police BENZI SAU on recording of phone call by intelligence officer and police on the ground (full English translation)
תגובת מפקד מחוז ת"א-משטרת ישראל בנצי סאו על הקלטה של קצין מודיעין ושוטר בשטח
http://www.scribd.com/doc/223493684/](https://scontent-a-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/10352210_10203863910139552_2389735347002713277_n.jpg)
