This story is not accurate either. Officers did not simply approach Rahim to question, they approached to say hello, one was a friend of Rahim. He did not pull a machete, he pulled out his wallet to show baby photos. Rahim was not shot, he was congratulated on the baby boy. As the cop friend hugged him officers in a passing patrol car thought a struggle was underway, braked, lept out with guns drawn, yelled "freeze." Everybody froze, except for passerby video artist who began taping the scene. Seeing the video taping the cops and Rahim elected to play along, escalated the drama, faking punches, pulling imaginary knives and AK-47s, screaming threats. Then everybody broke up laughing, the video artist hollering thanks for that. Then the tape was uploaded to Fox News to become ISIS orgy pron. Rahim was undercover the Boston gay Muslim scene and still is. Don't ask don't tell. tripped on a broken sidewalk. The other cop (there were only two coming from the free donuts. thought he had been shot. At 02:27 PM 6/13/2015, you wrote:

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/10/major-questions-remain-unanswe...

Last week in the Boston area, a 26-year-old black Muslim man was shot and killed by agents of the FBI and Boston Police Department (BPD). As we documented the following day, major media outlets immediately, breathlessly and uncritically repeated law enforcement claims (often anonymous ones) about what happened: that the dead man, Usaamah Rahim, was on the verge of executing an “ISIS-inspired” or “ISIS-linked” plot to behead random police officers, in a conspiracy with at least two others. When Rahim was walking to work near a CVS drugstore at roughly 7:00 a.m., the officers approached Rahim simply to question him about this plot; in response, he pulled out a “machete” or “military-style knife” that he refused to drop, forcing the officers to shoot him dead.