The execution of LaVoy Finicum, one of the rancher leaders at the Oregon wildlife refuge occupation earlier this year, is being played over and over by law enforcement, determined to convince the “lying eyes” of those watching video of the event that what they see is actually not what they see. There is a secondary question of whether FBI agents fired their weapons, or whether it was only trigger-happy state troopers who were firing at the truck and Finicum.
A video of the shooting without sound was released to the public early on, but a second video taken by friends and family of Finicum, including children, who were in the truck with him has now been released with a sound track. You can hear the verbal exchanges between Finicum and the officers as he calls to them from inside the truck. Finicum states that he is going to the next town to meet with the sheriff. That was not to be as law enforcement vehicles blocked the road and Finicum was forced into a snow bank at the side of the highway.
New video below raises new questions from critics, page 2:
Challenged what roadblock? The roadblock was on a blind curve. They had not time to slow down once the saw it, which is why the vehicle veered into the snowbank. To avoid hitting the roadblock.
they wanted to oil and mineral rights to all the land. Greed is what it is all about
Wow…..they were discussing going around it…you really are delusional. They fought the law and the law won. I would have shot him too.
This is the government you want? Holy c**p. LE’s are mindless murderbots.
Really! Obama and the Clinton’s are guilty of murder!
Someone should have checked the holes in the body before filing their reports. The video they showed revealed more than just 3 shots just by the impact signs. Our FBI starting to look completely incompetent from trying to get info off a terrorist phone to a simple arrest turned slaughter of one man in the middle of no where.
Murder, plain and simple. Lucky the others weren’t shot to dollrags too. Trigger happy government killers.
This was stupid, didn’t even watch past the first minute but he really went out of his way to agitate the guys pointing guns at him and he did so with a car full of people, daring them to shoot him. Whether the shootings was justified or if it was flat out murder, I can’t say but I can say with 100% certainty, that just like with virtually all police involvement shootings except for the occasional freak thing, this guy had every opportunity to save his own life by simple keeping his mouth shut, doing what he was told and if he had a problem then there are plenty of legal avenues he could have taken against them, now he’s dead and for what?
This whole thing is a mess and the authorities would have been far better served if they just didn’t bother acknowledging these folks in the first place instead of creating very tense situation that only has one possible outcome.
So I disagree with how authorities have handled every aspect of this but at the same time, when the police stop you and tell you to get out of the car, u just do it instead of making a fool of yourself and drastically increase the chances that you or your loved ones end up catching a bullet, once they stop you they aren’t going to let you go if you refuse to cooperate at all. They aren’t going to just take your word for it that you are going to see the sheriff and even if they do believe you, it doesn’t change the scenario at hand one iota.
Obviously he didn’t deserve to die but he’s also not without a good portion of responsibility here either. Bottom line, when men with guns trained on you, tell u to do something, it’s best to just do it. Of u did nothing wrong then u hot nothing to worry about and u can act like an adult and go after them with the very laws they are supposed to uphold after the confrontation that shouldn’t have happened to begin with, is over instead of agitating the guys with their guns pointed at you any more than they already are.
Seems the idea of self preservation or keeping his family safe both came second to whatever his agenda was here.
It’s too bad and I’m sure some heads will roll but if he truly wanted to be alive today, he would be if he simply behaved like an adult. It doesn’t justify the shooting but he both literally and figuratively asked for it repeatedly, not exactly a brill move on his part nor was anything that came out of his mouth.
So stupid, everything about this situation is just so damned dumb and it’s clearly turned into more of a$#%&!@*measuring contest than anything else, he came up short.
Wow are the people in Oregon doing anything about this?
I hope they fry them mother fuckers.$#%&!@*the feds !!