[ctdonath2]

“unidentified men”

Does anyone have any reason to believe they were anything other than cops?
It’s not like there’s roving gangs of heavily-armed thugs setting up roadblocks in that area that _just_happened_ to encounter a “considered armed and extremely dangerous” suspect at that particular place & time.
He knew they were cops, they knew he knew, they didn’t care, their job was to stop him - NOT to cross every “i” and dot every “t” the way he wanted them to. He dared them to shoot, he gave them reason to shoot, they shot.

[kiryandil]

How many times am I going to have to explain what's plainly on the in-truck video - that Ryan Bundy and Finicum have to PRY out of them who they say they are.

So, they weren't dressed as Oregon state police, but claimed they were.

[UCANSEE2]

Does anyone have any reason to believe they were anything other than cops?

Yes. Do you know exactly how many 'men' were there ? Including the ones up on the hill ? How many were Oregon State Police, how many FBI, how many SWAT members ? How about BLM agents ? How about any other 'government' unnamed agents ?

How would you know. They wouldn't tell you if there were.