both now report that Todashev was unarmed and alone in a room with the single FBI agent when he was killed early on the morning of May 22
It was an “extrajudicial execution,” said Zaurbek Sadakhanov, a Chechen lawyer who also was present. “Why was he interrogated three times without a lawyer? Why no recording? Why seven shots? And why should I believe their version? Why do American policemen believe they can do whatever they want?”Todashev’s father said his son had been planning to return to Chechnya on May 24, though he had apparently canceled his tickets before he was killed on May 22. He suggested that the FBI didn’t want his son to return to Russia.
“Maybe my son knew some sort of information that the police didn’t want to get out,” he said. “They shut him up. That’s my opinion.”
After the Boston bombing, the younger Todashev called his father and told him he was being watched. He said he didn’t believe that Tsarnaev and his brother, Dzhokhar, were responsible for the bombing. “This is a set-up,” he told his father. And he told him about the first two rounds of questioning by the FBI.
My son was in full cooperation with the F.B.I. but they just murdered him after an almost 8-hour-long questioning. Before this trouble I thought America was a free democratic country, where unlike in Russia, laws worked. I was deeply mistaken--now I think Russia is a golden place compared to the United States. My attitude for America flipped 180 degrees in one minute.
Law enforcement Chicago-style...