From  [HERE] and [MORE] The family of a Black Muslim leader in Detroit shot to death in a raid at an east Dearborn warehouse in 2009 is suing the FBI, claiming that his rights were violated. The suit filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit alleges an unarmed Imam Luqman Abdullah was shot 30 times as he tried to protect himself from a police dog, according to the Free Press.

The claims stem from the affidavit of Muhammad Abdul Salaam, a Detroit man who witnessed the raid and shooting. Abdullah, aka Christopher Thomas, was shot at least 21 times by FBI agents during a raid at the warehouse at 5171 Miller Road, just north of Michigan Avenue, just after noon Oct. 28, 2009. An FBI dog was shot twice in its neck and also died. A house on Tireman in Detroit also was raided.

The suit, filed Oct. 26 in U.S. District Court in Detroit, maintains that Abdullah did not display a gun; government reports written in the incident’s wake claim he fired a pistol.

The FBI was investigating the sale of stolen truck parts. Twenty-nine agents were in the warehouse, which was under the FBI’s control on an undercover basis, when Abdullah and four counterparts arrived; 66 agents were involved in the operation. Dearborn police were not part of the tactical operation or shooting.

Abdullah and the four others were loading boxes at a loading dock when FBI agents set off noise and flash bang devices and ordered the five men to get on the ground. The suit said that all five immediately showed their hands and got face down with their arms stretched in front of them. “Abdullah and the four men did not pose a threat to the unidentified FBI agents’ safety,” the suit said.

An FBI dog named Freddy “repeatedly attacked and mauled Abdullah,” the suit says, and Abdullah rolled onto his right side, grabbing the dog. The dog attacked his face, breaking his upper jaw, the suit said. When he was struggling with the dog, the agents fired the 21 shots, striking Abdullah’s chest, abdomen, hip, leg, groin and back, “causing his painful death,” the suit said.