Video of fatal shooting won’t be released this week
Video showing a Boston police officer and an FBI agent shooting Usaama Rahim —who Special Agent in Charge at FBI Boston Vincent Lisi said was under 24-hour surveillance— will not be released this week, the Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley’s office announced today.
The Suffolk DA’s office said that the video will only be made public— if at all— after investigators show it to clergy members, Rahim’s family, and civil-rights advocates.
A spokesman for the district attorney told The Boston Globe that the video’s release will depend on how the investigation goes.
“We want witness accounts to be based on memories and observations,’’ he said, “not something they have seen on television.’’
What’s not in dispute is that Rahim was killed in a CVS parking lot on Tuesday. But a man identifying himself as Rahim’s brother gave a very different account of the encounter in the hours following the shooting.
Police say he brandished a military-style knife and pursued them. The law enforcement officials said they did not have an arrest warrant for Rahim, but approached him for questioning about an ongoing FBI Joint Terror Task Force investigation. That’s when, they say, Rahim came at them with the knife.
The man identifying as Rahim’s brother, Imam Ibrahim Rahim, said his brother was on his way to work when the officials confronted him. According to Ibrahim, his brother was on the phone with their father, who heard the confrontation and gunshots. Ibrahim said that his family would make a statement once they all convened.
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