Posted on 04/22/2018 5:56:03 AM PDT by Nextrush
Mainstream media organizations in Oregon have obtained transcripts of the grand jury testimony that led to charges against FBI agent W. Joseph Astarita for lying about shots he fired just before Oregon State Police troopers killed LaVoy Finicum on January 26, 2016.
It turns out that the FBI sent out its own Shooting Incident Review Team in February 2016 that was unable to determine if Astarita or the other FBI agents at the scene fired any shots.
But the Oregon shooting team led by the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office along with the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General and the US Attorney's Office in Portland did determine it was Astarita who fired two unaccounted for shots with missing shell casings.
Defense lawyers for Astarita intend to create doubt with the jury about the veracity of the Oregon shooting investigation at the trial scheduled to begin July 24th.
The transcripts identify the FBI agents who worked with Astarita with their initials like "B.M." and "M.F." and show how Oregon investigators felt the agents as a group were hiding something when they were questioned about what happened.
"Finicum crashed into a snowbank on the side of the road and stepped out his hands in the air.
Passenger Shawna Cox's video showed a small red dot on Finicum's left shoulder as he exited the truck. At the same time Finicum yelled 'Go ahead and shoot me', two shots can be heard on Cox's video, according to a summary report from the FBI's Shooting Incident Response Team.
The first shot hit the roof of Finicum's truck and a second missed. Deschutes County sheriff's detectives, assigned to investigate what happened, traced the trajectory of the bullet that struck the roof to a spot where Astarita, agent B.M. and one state trooper were standing, according to court documents.
In front of a grand jury, a prosecutor asked B.M. if he heard gunshots when Finicum got out of his truck. B.M. was Astarita's immediate supervisor on the Hostage Rescue Tean's blue squad.
'No I do not recall hearing shots fired at that time' B.M. said. He was standing behind Astarita and said he was wearing a noise-dampening headset."
Maxine Bernstein "OregonLive" story 4/20/2018
It is believe that one of the two shots fire ended up wounding Ryan Bundy, one of the passengers in Finicum's pickup truck. Bundy is still carrying the shrapnel that was detected in an x-ray taken at a local hospital shortly afterwards on January 26, 2016.
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Say the people that lied about how many shots were fired.
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Nope. That was one federal officer. In fact, the same people who say the Taser wasn’t fired are the same people who exposed the federal officer.
In previous grand jury testimony that was leaked out to the media, a Department of Justice agent investigating the FBI agents actions said that an Oregon trooper with a taser was getting ready to use it, but of course everyone with guns pointing at LaVoy opened up first with lethal rounds.
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Well, if Finicum followed commands, not yelling at the officers to shoot him, and reaching for the area where he kept his weapon, they wouldn’t have shot him.
Only after the questions were raised. It was local deputies that were disturbed by the event, not the OSP initially.
Exactly! If it was a "good shoot" why did the agents lie about what occurred.
HANDS UP DON’T SHOOT
Does that apply to White folks?
The clear message is go passive obedient to FBI agents and they will murder you. Where is the FBI listed in the Constitution?
Too bad Finicum put his hands down and was yelling at the cops that they would have to shoot him.
Based on the Wooten Memo I figure law enforcement was indoctrinated to see LaVoy Finicum as subhuman with their sick minds seeing him as a “domestic terrorist”. Shoot first ask questions afterward with these “rednecks”....”Mormons”.....”inbreeders”.....etc.
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