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”......