Anoher proud moment in the history of shooting our own citizens down(not)!

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kirtland r.m.
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Anoher proud moment in the history of shooting our own citizens down(not)!

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This just in Police shot Oregon protester in back but act was 'justified'- prosecutor 16 / 50
File photo LaVoy Finicum, a rancher from Arizona, who is part of the group occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge speaks with reporters during a news conference at the refugee Jan. 5, near Burns, Ore. Lavoy posted a video of himself inside a government building looking through cardboard boxes of papers and other items associated with the local tribe. © Rick Bowmer/AP Photo File photo LaVoy Finicum, a rancher from Arizona, who is part of the group occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge speaks with reporters during a news conference at the refugee Jan. 5, near Burns, Ore. Lavoy posted…

A leader of the armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge killed by police was shot three times in the back, a county prosecutor said on Tuesday, calling the shooting "justified and necessary."

Robert "LaVoy" Finicum died at the hands of Oregon State Police on Jan. 26 after he ran from his pickup truck at a roadblock along a snow-covered roadside during the occupation by lands rights protesters at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

Relatives of Finicum, who was a spokesman for the group that seized buildings at the refuge, have previously said that he posed no threat to police during the confrontation and have rejected official assertions that he was armed.

Speaking at a press conference in Bend, Oregon, Deschutes County Sheriff Shane Nelson said a loaded 9mm handgun was found in Finicum's jacket pocket following the shooting.

Malheur County District Attorney Dan Norris said eight shots were fired at Finicum, six of them by Oregon State Police officers and two by FBI agents.

An autopsy found that three of the bullets fired by Oregon State Police officers struck Finicum in the base of the neck, shoulder and lower back and led to his death, Norris said.

"The six shots fired by the Oregon State Police were justified and in fact necessary," Norris said.

During the press conference, officials played video and audio tapes of the confrontation, during which Finicum can be heard telling law enforcement officers: "Go ahead, put the bullet through me."

At another point he is heard to say: "If you want a bloodbath, it's on your hands."

The videotape had been released previously but was newly synced with video and audio taken from inside the pickup truck by a protester. The original videotape was played in slow motion at times to show what law enforcement officials said was Finicum reaching for his weapon immediately before he was shot.

The deadly encounter unfolded moments after Finicum sped away from law enforcement officers who had just taken protest leaders Ammon and Ryan Bundy into custody, then tried to run a police roadblock, plowing into a snowbank and narrowly missing an FBI agent.

Finicum can be seen raising his hands as he emerged from his vehicle, then turning as he apparently flails his arms and then falls to the ground. His precise movements are difficult to discern from the video.

The U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement that its inspector general's office was investigating the actions of the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team in the Finicum shooting.

The takeover, which began on Jan. 2 with at least a dozen armed men, was sparked by the return to prison of two Oregon ranchers convicted of setting fires that spread to federal property in the vicinity of the refuge.

It also marked the latest flare-up in the so-called Sagebrush Rebellion, a decades-old conflict over federal control of millions of acres in the West.

"What's important to me is what was going on in Mr. Finicum's head," said Mike Arnold, a lawyer for Ammon Bundy who said "non-lethal rounds" were fired by law enforcement officials as Finicum pulled away from police in his pickup.

"By the time he got to the roadblock in his mind he believed that he was being fired upon unlawfully and that this was an ambush," Arnold told reporters after Tuesday's press conference.

Oregon Public Broadcasting reported that members of the Finicum family were expected to issue a statement later on Tuesday.

The final four holdouts were taken into custody on Feb. 17, ending the 41-day standoff. At least 16 people have been charged in connection with the occupation.
I really hope the true story gets out quickly on this. Remember waco, and ruby ridge, murdered children?

DesertWonderer
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So I'm curious. Are you saying that LE murdered him, just looking for an excuse to "teach the protesters a lesson", poorly trained, overreacted, what?

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Law enforcement had a vendetta against Finicum. Firstly, his legal position was 100% correct. Not in a contemporary sense but in a historical sense. By killing him it is made to appear that contemporary concerns are the only concerns and that the infiltrated federal government is always right.

Clearly, the state of Oregon has fallen to the NWO agenda.

The Bundys and Finicum were working to overcome the ABRIDGING of the purpose of free speech. Or. By the sensation of their acts, they were able to be heard on a far wider basis than they could ever be other wise.

For these reasons, years ago, I began developing strategy for a constitutional lawful and peaceful revolution.

Unfortunate organizations like oathkeepers and others failed to support the concept using Article 5 and instead opted for armed confrontations.

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