Thanks for the info.
I’m particularly interested in the video taken from inside the truck. The police kept shooting at the truck, and throwing flash/bang grenades...but didn’t order to people in the truck to get out, stick their hands out, or anything the police would normally do. It resembled a combat checkpoint more than a felony police stop.
So I’ve been curious to know, first of all, who were the ‘police’. Were they all Oregon Highway Patrol? Or were some FBI? Then I would be curious to know what their intent was when they kept taking pot shots at the vehicle.
The OSP were pulling over and blocking roads with the FBI’s elite “Hostage Rescue Team” along for the ‘action’.
Five FBI agents (”Hostage Rescue Team”) were at the roadblock around their truck inside the roadblock of OSP cars. One of those five was trigger happy as LaVoy’s truck went into the snow and he got out.
Considering that LaVoy drove into the snow, he wasn’t planning on running law enforcement down and hurting them at the roadblock.
“Oregon Live” published the story linked here with a passage about Fincicum being shot while ‘evading’ police.
“Shot while escaping” like the Gestapo major used to say on “Hogans Heroes”.
What galls me is that they continued shooting into the vehicle over and over, as if they found extra bullets and just wanted to expend them.
No real urgency to the shooting, just a pop here and a pop there, as if to make the occupants panic so they could then be murdered.