Excerpt:
Authorities in Detroit released an autopsy of Imam Luqman Abdullah this week and its findings show his death was not pretty. Abdullah was shot 20 times, being hit repeatedly in the legs and torso and even taking a bullet through his scrotum as FBI agents tried to arrest him October 28 for a variety of crimes.
Reactions to the medical examiner's report also show that a facts-be-damned attitude persists among the imam's supporters when it comes to their campaign to foment anger and hostility toward law enforcement. Protesters gathered outside a news conference given by Dearborn's police chief Monday standing in front of a banner reading "Stop FBI Terror!" A supporter called the shooting "a targeted assassination."
The autopsy provides a detailed account and sketch of each wound Abdullah suffered. Not one shot from the FBI SWAT team hit him in the head. More than half hit below the waist. That point was somehow lost on the Detroit Free Press, which reported and editorialized that Abdullah suffered a head shot even though the newspaper posted a copy of the autopsy on its website.
Tuesday's New York Times joined the misreporting when it said "Mr. Abdullah, however, had not been charged with a crime when he was killed in a shootout." He had. "He was charged via criminal complaint" and agents came to serve him with an arrest warrant, Detroit FBI spokeswoman Sandra Berchtold said Wednesday.