Notice they had to stick the word "black" in the title of the article.
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BOSTON (AP) — A knife-wielding black man killed while under surveillance by an anti-terror task force had discussed "committing beheadings" and "harming police officers," a law enforcement official said Wednesday.
These details of the threat that prompted Boston police and FBI agents to confront Usaama Rahim on a sidewalk in Boston were described as authorities moved swiftly Wednesday to manage public perceptions of the shooting.
Rahim's family is prominent among Muslims in Boston, where his mother is a nurse at Boston University. His older brother, Ibrahim Rahim, is a scholar known for preaching that violence is anti-Islamic after the Boston marathon bombings.
Ibrahim Rahim initially posted a message on Facebook alleging that police repeatedly shot his brother in the back on Tuesday while calling their father for help. But the imam's version unraveled Wednesday after police showed their video of the confrontation to community leaders.
Darnell Williams, president of the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts, said afterward that he could "150 percent corroborate" the police account. The images clearly show that Rahim "was not on a cell phone and was not shot in the back," Williams said.
Boston Police Commissioner William Evans said officers confronted the suspect because "military and law enforcement lives were at threat."
Rahim and another suspect, David Wright, both 26, had talked about "committing beheadings" and "harming police officers," said the law enforcement official, who is familiar with the investigation but not authorized to release details and spoke on condition of anonymity.
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