He was in a snowbank when he got shot after he exited the vehicle, hands up but probably also unsteady in the snowbank allowing the notion from authorities ‘he was reaching for a pocket with a gun in it’.
Here in PA I’ve had to battle snowbanks after the big snow and the ability to balance one’s body in them is difficult and I am a man of comparable age to Mr. Finicum.
Whether accurate or not it sounds like the feds have plausible story then.