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FBI agent who shot Ibragim Todashev was subject of police brutality suits

The name of the Boston FBI agent who shot and killed Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s friend last year in Florida has been revealed. He’s Aaron McFarlane, age 41, and he sounds like a piece of work.

[McFarlane] had a brief and troubled past at the Oakland Police Department in California. In four years, Officer #8313 took the Fifth at a police corruption trial and was the subject of two police brutality lawsuits and four internal affairs investigations. He retired from the department in 2004 at age 31.

Ibragim Todashev shooter had stormy record as officer

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