Yesterday morning, the FBI and Boston police shot to death Usaama Rahim who allegedly lunged at them with a knife. They had been surveilling him for sometime, suspecting him of being involved in a terror plot to behead a police officer. A second man, David Wright has been arrested, and a third suspect is also about to be named, according to Fox.

But within a few hours of Rahim being shot, his brother, Ibrahim Rahim, a ‘respected Imam’ from Oakland, California, was attempting to frame what had happened to the world, even before the police announced who had been shot.

Notice how he doesn’t mention the brother lunging at the police with a knife. The brother was just innocently going to work, talking on the phone with his father (which Usaama Rahim thought he needed to do for ‘witness, why would that be?).

Imam Rahim also says that the brother claimed he ‘couldn’t breathe’. Well, this of course presumes he could speak after being shot dead. But let’s let the facts determine whether he was even alive for any period of time after being shot. But this claim is, of course, an effort to recall Eric Garner, the man who died after his encounter with police in NYC.

Within hours of the event, the Imam claims his brother was shot three times in the back. Big problem with this claim, how does the brother, who is in Oakland, California, and who was not on the scene, know where on his body his brother was shot?

The early police reports they shot him in the chest and the abdomen, so in the front of his body. The police have video of the event. Usually it would be awhile until such evidence would come out. But the police, understanding that people were trying to hijack the narrative, have shown to some ‘community leaders’ to try to head off the fake story, but they haven’t shown it to the media yet. Those who have seen it say, yes, it clearly shows him being shot in the front, not the back, showing the Imam’s story was false. He also did not have a phone in his hand, contrary to what the Imam said, so no one could know what his last words were, except maybe the police. I’m willing to bet they weren’t, “I can’t breathe”.

But the story was already under way, being spread.

Within hours, Imam Rahim had reached out to many in the Muslim ‘social justice’ arena, including Linda Sarsour, the Muslim activist version of Al Sharpton, who has been with Occupy and Black Lives Matter.

Sarsour was immediately on the case. Sarsour reminded people that whatever the facts, they were to remember that, “at the end of the day, a Black man was shot on a bus stop on his way to work and we should treat this like any other case of police violence”. “They have added a national security component”, she says, “to divide and conquer the movement”. She even starts the obligatory hashtag, #Justice4Usaama.

Ibrahim Rahim then spoke with Dawud Walid of CAIR.

Valid then spent some time on his Facebook and Twitter spreading the word and accusing the police, also using #BlackLivesMatter hashtag.

CAIR puts Sarsour’s description up on their Facebook.

Zahra Billoo, a community organizer who has been the director of the San Francisco chapter of CAIR, immediately began tweeting and retweeting tweets that accused the police of racism and of murdering Rahim.

Ferguson agitators also joined in:

So now even if the facts come out showing this man’s involvement in terrorism and that he did try to attack the police, they will have tainted the audience who will be less willing to accept the truth.

Just an aside, just in case you don’t believe everything is connected, many of the same folks spreading the Diet Coke lady’s story, also were spreading this story, including Imam Rahim.