Not quite. Its a question of realizing that a lawsuit might result in money being handed to you so you’ll shut up.
Then the government officials responsible walk off without any consequences landing on them.
In the urban areas the police shootings often lead to urban governments paying out the $$$$$$$ to pacify the aggrieved parties.
This is designed to put government wrongdoing in the spotlight and apply non-violent pressure in the direction of government to see if government will feel threatened by it and resort to any retaliatory actions up to and including violence.
Will the government try to suppress a citizens grand jury from indicting government officials past and present, federal, state and local for their actions surrounding the Oregon Standoff?
Indictments provide a theoretical basis for the arrest of government officials, federal, state and local.
This method was being planned in Oregon in January 2016 during the protest to apply to the case of the Hammonds, still sitting in a federal prison and as deserving of a pardon or justice as ever.
The only ex government employee in trouble is the FBI agent who lied about taking shots. The shots themselves aren’t an issue. And neither is the justified shooting of Finicum.
They don’t have a case. They had a chance to get out of Finicum’s truck at the first stop, but they chose to stay.