A Florida-based Muslim advocacy group is suing the FBI after an agent fatally shot Ibragim Todashev, a Chechen national who was friends with one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, The Boston Herald reports.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations is suing for $30 million in the wrongful death lawsuit.
“We are seeking answers and justice for someone who was shot seven times by an FBI agent in his own home after hours of interrogation,” CAIR Florida Civil Rights Director Thania Diaz said in a statement. “A few key weaknesses in FBI practice are unfortunately highlighted all too well in this case.”
A spokesman for the FBI did not comment.
The FBI agent was not charged in the shooting because the Florida state attorney determined the shooting was self-defense.
