This would appear to be an unsupportable supposition. The site for the arrest was picked for its lethal advantage as a kill zone.
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Finicum was initially stopped for arrest miles before the final road block. Other members of his group surrendered peacefully at that point.
Finicum was initially stopped for arrest miles before the final road block.
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But yet there was an ambush set up, farther up the road.
Almost like they didn’t want him to stop at the first one.
And as the FBI agent testified at the Astarita trial a flash bang was shot at Finicum there at that first stop indicating to Finicum that he was under attack I strongly suspect.
The propaganda that people want to put out to CYA themselves was clearly illustrated in the trial by both the OSP and FBI witnesses.
And as the FBI agent testified at the Astarita trial a flash bang was shot at Finicum there at that first stop indicating to Finicum that he was under attack I strongly suspect.
The propaganda that people want to put out to CYA themselves was clearly illustrated in the trial by both the OSP and FBI witnesses.
Important point about the other vehicle that stopped at the first stop.
That vehicle was driven by an armed man, yes a man carrying a gun.
But a man who was not arrested because Mark McConnell, the man, was an FBI informant.
He was already committed to stopping even though shots were being fired at the stop.
Finicum was under fire at the first stop. He was running down the road at 75 mph for his freakin life because the OSP shot at his vehicle at the first stop.