Major Questions Remain Unanswered in Boston Killing of Alleged ISIS Beheading Plotter

Two weeks ago 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 wedocumentedthe following day, major media outlets immediately, breathlessly anduncritically repeatedlaw 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. Whe...