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Video of Boston jihadi proves he wasn’t shot in back, refuting family claims

Jun 9, 2015 6:53 am By Robert Spencer

Not that this will end their claims of victimhood and attempts to demonize the police. “Authorities release video of Boston terror suspect armed with large knife, shot dead by cops; family remains skeptical,” by Sasha Goldstein, New York Daily News, June 8, 2015:

Grainy surveillance video captures the moment a Boston terror suspect, armed with a military-style knife, was surrounded and shot dead by law enforcement officers during a confrontation last week.

The Boston Police Department and Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office took the unusual step of releasing the video to the public Monday, just six days after 26-year-old Usaamah Rahim was shot near a bus stop at a shopping plaza in Boston’s Roslindale section.

Video is generally withheld until an investigation is complete, officials said at a news conference Monday morning.

Authorities say the clip’s release came after misinformation and rumor began to circulate shortly after the shooting, headed by Rahim’s brother, who claimed Rahim had been shot in the back while speaking with his father on a cell phone.

Police said neither claim is true and the video appears to back the authorities.

The video shows the moment Usaamah Rahim was shot three times and falls to the ground after he was within striking distance of an officer, Boston police Commissioner William Evans said.

The clip, taken from across a parking lot on a rainy morning around 7 a.m. last Tuesday, shows Rahim walk to the bus stop, trailed by two plainclothes law enforcement officers.

An FBI agent and a Boston police officer, part of a Joint Terrorism Task Force that was surveilling the suspect around the clock, both opened fire after Rahim “lunged” with the knife following repeated requests for him to drop the all-black blade, police Commissioner William Evans said.

At least four law enforcement officers can be seen on the video. But it’s hard to make out when weapons were drawn, or if Rahim had the knife in his hand. There is no audio so it is unclear what kind of discussion proceeded the gunfire.

The surveillance team approached Rahim after intercepting a “communication” that morning that alluded to an imminent attack, FBI Agent Vincent Lisi said.

Usaamah Rahim had been under 24-7 surveillance for weeks before he was shot.

Rahim had purchased three large knives online in the weeks ahead of the confrontation, and had spoken of taking out the “boys in blue” during phone calls with his nephew, 25-year-old David Wright.

Wright was arrested at his Everett, Mass., apartment shortly after the shooting last week.

Rahim had also plotted to behead conservative blogger Pamela Geller, who has been in the spotlight for her inflammatory “Draw Muhammad” contest in Texas last month. That art show drew two would-be jihadi attackers who were shot dead in the suburban Dallas parking lot outside the event.

The June 2 video shows Rahim “was well within striking distance of one of the officers with the large military” knife, Evans said.

“He was intent, as the affidavit says, on getting a boy in a blue, and I don’t think at this point that he was going to go down very easy,” Evans said. “This unraveled very quickly and I think they (the officers) made the right call. He was intent on taking out one of us and it was either us or them and thankfully, it wasn’t one us.”

Police say a third person may be involved in the terror plot and last week carried out a third search in Warwick, Rhode Island, but no arrest was made.

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  1. ICH says

    Jun 9, 2015 at 7:35 am

    It may seem fruitless just airing our grievances online.
    We may be a minority right now.
    But when people become victims , their mindsets will change.
    I am waiting for the so called “rednecks” of america to make some noise.
    This whole fight cant be all down to Pamela Geller.
    She needs help. We all do.

    How do we cure this rat problem?

    • jihad3tracker says

      Jun 9, 2015 at 9:41 am

      Rednecks like me are already on Pam’s side — and have been for years, knowing how our precious 2nd Amendment is essential to the preservation of freedom..

      We will be among the first citizens to get going if Allah’s army ever decides to start active combat in an organized shooting war.

      Personally, I’d like nothing better than to take out some of the big stars in the U.S. who are continuously mouthing off on the subject of “Islamophobia”.

      • ich says

        Jun 9, 2015 at 10:32 am

        Thanks for those comments. I actually feel better.
        It seems like everyone is just rolling over.
        If I even bring this stuff up I get looked at like I am the problem.

    • Shane says

      Jun 10, 2015 at 9:39 am

      Pamela Gellar has a new tactic to fight Islamic jihad in America.
      AFDI ROLLS OUT NEW FREE SPEECH BILLBOARD CAMPAIGN FEATURING MUHAMMAD CARTOON http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/08/afdi-rolls-out-new-free-speech-billboard-campaign-featuring-muhammad-cartoon/

  2. Angemon says

    Jun 9, 2015 at 8:52 am

    Authorities release video of Boston terror suspect armed with large knife, shot dead by cops; family remains skeptical

    Next the family will say that the loser was an accomplished dancer and regularly practiced his moonwalk out in the street… sarc./ off

    • Georg says

      Jun 9, 2015 at 1:37 pm

      I laughed.

    • Charli Main says

      Jun 10, 2015 at 2:43 am

      Not to worry Angemon—Jack the Slasher´s family will soon produce a Pallywood video showing that he was praying to allah, for a can of unopened coke, when those nasty infidel cops, just walked up to him and shot him in the back.

  3. William Lucas Harvey Jr. says

    Jun 9, 2015 at 10:32 am

    Islam’s Muslims (MOST Racist, Bigoted, and Intolerant THEMSELVES), ARE Incessantly Playing the “Victim Card”, Whining, and Complaining, while Shouting Racist, Bigot, Blasphemy, and Displaying their typical Muslim HATE and Deception, with Taqyyia and Kitman, the “Grand Deception”, as they are taught to by the Qur’an, according to the teachings of Allah and Mohammed.

  4. Jay Boo says

    Jun 9, 2015 at 11:04 am

    Another Muslim chasing his own tail to prove victimhood.

    • Huck Folder says

      Jun 9, 2015 at 3:15 pm

      Just like the ouroboros ‘Book of Hate™’ chases its own tail/tale.

  5. Sam says

    Jun 9, 2015 at 2:04 pm

    What crazy times we live in. When Moslems cut our throats, try to kill us for “insulting” the pedophile, enslave women and children today, massacre Christians left and right there is no outcry. When police shots a crazy Jihadist while being attack they all cry foul play and a lot of Americans buy it. This is very disturbing as we have not even begin to fight Islam. I wonder if we ever declare Islam evil and start fighting in my lifetime.

    • ICH says

      Jun 9, 2015 at 3:14 pm

      insane isnt it !!!

      America is scared.

  6. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jun 9, 2015 at 4:41 pm

    With video that blurry, the Rahim clan and its lawyers are looking to cash in bigtime on this one.

    Things can get so blurry. For example, the news entertainment industry has taken to calling Geller a conservative blogger. Usage of that term here is so blurry it makes to rub my eyese and squint. Hey, she’s a Jewess from New York, although she may indeed be a conservative. But I want proof, because when I lived in NYC from what I saw all the Jewish girls were for big gubmint with regulations flying everywhere all backed by very high taxes and they sneered at conservatives as morons who were paleo this or paleo that.

    Labels. This is like the word Islamist. What the hell is that?

    • TheBuffster says

      Jun 9, 2015 at 10:28 pm

      I don’t know whether Pamela considers herself “conservative”, but no lefty liberal is going to call her blog “Atlas Shrugs”, after the title of Ayn Rand’s novel – Ayn Rand, the “radical for capitalism” who abhorred socialism and the welfare state and upheld reason and limited government. The left avoids Rand like the plague, and only approaches to throw excrement and to misrepresent the content of her philosophy.

      • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

        Jun 9, 2015 at 10:37 pm

        Good point, you’re right. Thanks for the reminder. But still, when they call her a conservative the news entertainers should explain based on what, even if it’s her fealty to the objectivist principles Rand. But they just throw the labels around at will.

        Given that, after four decades of our failed and corrupted education system, most of the people in this country has gone globo-socialist, one longs for the day when we will hear something like Jane Doe, a liberal blogger, publicly called today for an end to the Islamization of America, which she warns is killing our freedoms.

  7. David says

    Jun 9, 2015 at 6:03 pm

    Would an autopsy not prove whether or not he was shot it the back?

    • Angemon says

      Jun 9, 2015 at 6:09 pm

      Would the family even allow that? They could claim “religious motives” to refuse an autopsy.

      I suppose that a coroner should be able to tell entrance wounds from exit wounds, assuming any bullet exited the body, so an autopsy might not be required.

      • Undaunted says

        Jun 9, 2015 at 10:15 pm

        As a former homicide detective and current counterterrorism guru, I’m tellin’ you knuckleheads that it doesn’t matter if the bullets went in the front and came out the back or in the back and came out the front. Rahim constituted a clear and present danger to the law enforcement team surrounding him and to any and all civilians in the area should LE somehow let him slip away.

        Therefore, shooting him in the back, the front, the top, the bottom, running him over with a car, dropping a piano on him… all would suffice as what a reasonable man would do in the same circumstance. And that is the standard: the reasonable man standard. Look it up and stop wondering about autopsies. It doesn’t fucking matter.

        • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

          Jun 9, 2015 at 10:44 pm

          Prez Barack Hussein and his buddy the sleazeball crook Eric Holder have let the genie out of the bottle. They did it because they’re self-serving and stupid enough to actually believe the idea that law enforcement is carrying out an orgy of racist attacks on poor young black men on the street, but oh the cost. My prediction is that it’s gonna be a long hot summer replete with race riots. We saw a precursor of that with the out of control party but in TX yesterday.

          This is no time to be a cop. Every time the news entertainers talk about the poor black youths trapped between a racist vise and lack of opportunity because of prevalent racism in America, I say, “You are right, Mr. News Entertainer. There *is* institutional racism in this country, it exists throughout the country when it comes to getting an education, getting a job, securing a home loan. It’s called Affirmative Action and the CRA, racist programs that must be shut down now in the name of social justice.”

        • Doug says

          Jun 10, 2015 at 6:04 pm

          Knuckleheads? For simply surmising? You could have made your point in a more respectful manner. For all your assumed credentials, which are suspect, you certainly come across as a lesser individual.

  8. Undaunted says

    Jun 10, 2015 at 7:39 am

    Yeah, what you said.

  9. Uncle Vladdi says

    Jun 10, 2015 at 5:17 pm

    Re: “misinformation and rumor began to circulate shortly after the shooting, headed by Rahim’s brother, who claimed Rahim had been shot in the back while speaking with his father on a cell phone.”

    THAT WASN’T “MISINFORMATION AND RUMOR” – THAT’S CALLED “SLANDER” AND “LIBEL!!!”

    ARREST THAT LITTLE PUNK, TOO!

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