Video of Deadly Shooting Released.
TAPPER: Welcome back to THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper. In other national news breaking today, new video released just hours ago showing the public for the first time the deadly confrontation between law enforcement and Usaama Rahim, the terror suspect gunned down by police and the FBI last Tuesday in Boston. Officials maintained that they merely wanted to question Rahim who then waved a large military style knife at officers at refused to put it down before being shot and killed. Let's get right to CNN justice correspondent Pamela Brown. Pamela, Muslim leaders and members of the community who saw the video say it does show that he wasn't shot in the back while he was running away, but other than that, they can't really tell anything. I have to be honest, I'm no forensics expert, but I didn't see a knife from that far away in that grainy image.</s>PAMELA BROWN, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: And as the family came out today and said there's no visual evidence of a knife in that video, but police say the officer saw a knife, yelled out "knife" and that's what prompted the reaction in the video. But it is difficult to see. The video is at a distance, it is blurry. It's difficult to make out exactly what is going on. The district attorney's office released that video today, showing the suspect with the officers and agents backtracking, rushing towards him with their guns out. The shooting has been the center of controversy because there's been some question about whether it was justified.</s>BROWN (voice-over): This newly released surveillance video shows the moment a Boston police officers and an FBI agent shod and killed Boston terror suspect Usaama Rahim last Tuesday. Police say, though, the video is blurry, it is enough to show Rahim highlighted in the yellow circle walking towards a bus stop. You can see several agents and officers following behind, worried he was about to board a public bus with this military knife.</s>VINCENT LISSI, FBI: Last Tuesday morning, we intercepted a communication that indicated he was about to carry out an attack that day.</s>BROWN: The D.A.'s office this shows how Rahim, who Boston authorities recently put under 24/7 surveillance, came within three to four feet of police, with his knife out, prompting them to draw their guns.</s>WILLIAM EVANS, BOSTON POLICE COMMISSIONER: It was multiple, multiple requests for him to put down that weapon. He was given every chance.</s>BROWN: Authorities say Rahim refused to drop the knife, at this point, even lunged at the officers. So, they shot him.</s>EVANS: I think we averted a serious tragedy in that day.</s>BROWN: That same day, police arrested Rahim's nephew, David Wright. They claimed the two men, along with a third unnamed man, met on a Rhode Island beach last week to allegedly discuss plans to behead controversial activist Pamela Geller in New York. Authorities are still building a case against the third man, but law enforcement officials telling CNN today that he and at least one of the other suspects had been communicating with known ISIS terrorists overseas.