Also, the kind of "safe conduct" you describe does not normally apply to citizens of the same nation in peacetime.
And Finicum is on tape reaching for his pocket rather than the sky.
I can drive from town to town if I want, but I know I'm not immune to roadblocks, traffic stops, sobriety checks, etc.
If the Malheur protestors thought they were being offered immunity from all laws they were dreaming.
We do not know what was said, but we’ve heard from both sides that the promise was “safe conduct” or “safe passage” to a meeting to negotiate an end to the protest. That promise was clearly as empty as every other Obama promise of these terrible eight years.
I was not there specifically because I know “some animals are more equal than others” in Obama’s world. I expected Obama, his racist Attorney General, or one of his politically appointed minions to have peaceful protesters killed there, where the socialists would never have used anywhere near as much force against #BlackThugsMatter looters, and I didn’t think Oregon and this month were the place and time to take that risk.