I never suggested the protesters didn’t have a valid issue to protest. In fact, somewhere in this thread or another I said that I sympathize with them on the issue of federal land grabs. However, protest has the potential to turn very dangerous when it is backed up with firearms and people saying things like “they’ll never take me alive” which is what Finicum had been saying before he ever left the property. That’s the background to what happened as far as those law enforcement officers were concerned. They had a man they were determined to arrest. Whether you agree with why he was being arrested or not, they were acting within the law to arrest him. He chose to make good on his ‘threat’ that they’d have to shoot him.
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