Posted on 10/15/2016 4:33:17 AM PDT by Nextrush
If he had checked his text messages sooner, David Fry would have left the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and joined occupation spokesman Robert "LaVoy" Finicum on a trip...that ended when Finicum was fatally shot.....
Fry said Finicum was the only person he had known at the eastern Oregon bird sanctuary when he arrived Jan. 8. He drove four days from Ohio to the refuge partly because he was interested in meeting Finicum.....
He described the occupation as a Martin Luther King Jr.-type sit-in......
"I did not think it was illegal," Fry testified. "I thought it was an abandoned federal facility...
"I didn't agree with the way government is managing anything lately, he said.....
Fry testified that he never hacked into any refuge employee's computer, but simply plugged his flash drive..so he could more easily compress long videos.....
He described the atmosphere at the refuge as calm, happy, and even "merry" before Finicum's shooting death. But once the occupiers who remained behind at the refuge learned of the shooting, it "became absolutely chaotic," he said.....
Fry said he feared the FBI would head to the refuge to confront the remaining occupiers.
...he said he felt compelled to remain.
"I was the last one there who had camera skills. I felt more of a duty to stay behind...I wanted to be able to document and show to the outside people how it went down."....
he spoke frequently with FBI agents, but didn't trust them......
During cross-examination, Assistant U.S. Attorney Ethan Knight noted the more than 16,000 rounds of ammunition at the refuge and asked Fry, "Is it still your opinion this was an Martin Luther King-styled sit in?"
"I still considered it as a sit-in," Fry responded, adding that the guns were present out of fear of a FBI-type Waco, Texas attack.....
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...
In videos Fry has consistently spoken about LaVoy Finicum and his desire to keep the protest going after LaVoy's murder.
More of the same on the stand yesterday.
Fry threatened suicide under the pressure of the FBI assault as the protest came to an end and one other protestor, Jeff Banta, said Fry looked like some sort of 'hippie' to him.
David Fry said that he considered leaving the protest at one point because some of the other folks there said negative things about Muslims.
One wonders if those people were FBI operatives-informants.
The FBI did arrest three men in Kansas yesterday after a deep undercover investigation into an alleged plot to kill Muslims on November 9th, the day after the election.
It turns out that 15 different people provided 129 reports to the FBI about what was going on at the protest in Oregon.
Two informants have already been identified during the trial, but the defense has asked Judge Anna Brown to release all the names before they rest their case.
Brown will announce her decision when the trial resumes Monday.
I want to thank you for po0sting these threads. The comments on the article sure aren’t supportive, are they?
Those folks live in their world, the world of people who want to be angry and ‘hate their neighbors’ unlike Ammon Bundy and those who protested earlier this year.
I know what its like to be angry and hate other people. I don’t want to go back there.
This story has been lost in the election coverage. The Bundy’s are going to prison for a long while. Fry will most likely end up in prison also. The judge is off base from what I know and these cases are bound to be appealed.
The Bundy’s are right about many things just not very good at PR and execution of plans.
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