Florida law-enforcement officials have rebuffed a request by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Council on American Islamic Relations to investigate the death of Ibragim Todashev, killed during an FBI interrogation in Orlando.
Todashev was a friend of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.
“This is an active federal investigation; it would be inappropriate for [the state] to intervene,” Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Gerald M. Bailey wrote to the ACLU in a letter dated Tuesday, American media report.
"The FBI is already investigating the incident, but the civil liberties groups say their findings can't be trusted. The FBI has been extremely secretive about the circumstances of Todashev's death, and the New York Times reported recently that over the last twenty years, the agency's internal investigations found that every shooting by its agents was justified," New York Magazine writes.
