Did An FBI Agent Murder The Boston Bomber's Friend?

*An FBI agent who shot dead a friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev during an interrogation last year acted in self-defence and will not face criminal charges, a Florida prosecutor announced on Tuesday. The unnamed agent shot Ibragim Todashev seven times as the 27-year-old moved towards a police officer holding a broom stick "in the style of a javelin", moments after wounding the FBI agent by flipping a coffee table into the back of his head, according to officers who were there. FBI officials previously claimed in anonymous briefings to reporters after the shooting on May 22 that Todashev had attacked the agent with a knife or length of pipe. Two Massachusetts State Police (MSP) officers told the prosecutor, Jeffrey Ashton, that when he died, Todashev was about to write a statement admitting to "some involvement" in a triple homicide in September 2011, to which Tsarnaev has also been connected...* Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur breaks it down on The Young Turks while former prosecutor Steve Oh shares his take.

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