Posted on 02/03/2018 5:26:30 AM PST by Nextrush
Prosecutors say witness testimony, audio and video evidence, plus bullet trajectory analysis yielded one conclusion: FBI agent W. Joseph Astarita lied about firing two shots at the truck of refuge occupation spokesman Robert "LaVoy" Finicum in 2016 after he swerved into a snowbank.
The information is detailed in a 32 page government response to Astarita's motion to dismiss the federal indictment against him. He's pleaded not guilty to three counts of obstruction of making false statements and two counts of obstruction of justice. Astarita's lawyer claimed the indictment was based on "junk science".
The government response also reveals that Oregon State Police SWAT troopers at the scene, ordinarily required to wear body cameras, didn't that day at the request of the FBI. The FBI did obtain video from FBI surveillance planes flying above the scene.
State police detectives also normally record interviews of officers who might be involved in a shooting, but they didn't that night when questioning the FBI Hostage Rescue Team members, but they didn't that night when questioning the FBI Hostage Rescue Team members, again at the FBI's request. A follow-up interview with the hostage team members also came with unusual conditions, prosecutors note.
Astarita's first rifle shot missed Finicum's truck entirely and the second entered Finicum's truck from the roof, "sending sparks into the cabin and blowing out the left rear passenger window next to Ryan Bundy," according to federal prosecutors.......
On Feb. 6, 2016, two state police detectives reinterviewed Astarita, but by then the hostage rescue team agents knew there were unaccounted-for gunshots and missing shell casings. The agents set conditions for the interview: They could only be interviewed as a group, the interview couldn't be recorded and their lawyer could be present on a speakerphone........
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You mean the vehicle driven by the armed FBI informant, Mark McConnell and carrying the unarmed leader of the protest, Ammon Bundy.
Finicum saved the people in the SUV that day
Good Germans all
In the video it’s clear that when Finicum said “you’ll have to shoot me” he knew he was talking to law enforcement.
Like I said, Ammon Bundy lived to fight another day. One of the passengers in Finicum’s truck also got out. They all survived, unlike Finicum who committed suicide by cop.
Still trying to justify the murder, still trying.
The first shots were fired and more around the time he made that statement about “you’ll have to shoot me”.
The flashbangs were going off and a laser targeted Ryan Payne in the eyes as LaVoy was conversing with armed men who refused to identify themselves.
Based on the statements in the Shawna Cox lawsuit, it looked like they were already ready to kill when LaVoy spoke.
It looks like an ambush based on the statements of someone who was there, Shawna Cox.
The first shots were fired and more around the time he made that statement about “you’ll have to shoot me”.
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Finicum said it at the first stop. He said it repeatedly.
Suicide by cop.
We already know from the Wooten Memo the attitude of the feds towards the Bundy’s and their supporters.
Federal law enforcement referred to them as ‘retards’, ‘rednecks’, ‘tractor face’ (I figure a direct reference to Ryan Bundy with his face disfigurement who was injured by the FBI agents bullet right before LaVoy was killed by the OSP).
It was easy to fire shots at LaVoy and the others because their humanity was devalued by the degrading names.
The Wooten Memo also said pictures of Cliven Bundy and another man had “X’s” drawn through their face and body.
And lets not forget Dan Love of the BLM and his “Kill Book”......
Yes, it is.
What could you Do in that situation???
There’s a documentary called “American standoff” show video from inside the truck as well as overhead video.
They truck wasn’t ongoing 70 mph, more like 30 mph, when it hit the snowbank. They shot at the vehicle soon after it stopped moving. Lavoy exited the truck as instructed, then it appears his was shot from behind.
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