The Ballad of Ibragim Todashev

They grilled him through the dark of night

And then they took his life,

But he was just another Muslim

And they said he had a knife.

They shot him all of seven times,

With a kill shot to the head.

He was about to admit to a heinous crime.

They say so…and he’s dead.

He scared them with his martial arts;

He was just too strong, too quick,

And about that knife they said he had,

Would you believe a stick?

Just ask the Pratts or the Trentadues

When those folks ever lie.

They’re Whitey Bulger’s biggest friends.

They’re the FBI.

David Martin

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