“They didn’t have to shoot him...”
If a known armed suspect tries to flee arrest, then exits their vehicle and keeps moving towards officers while disobeying orders, they are going to be shot. Everyone in the country who is not mentally disabled knows that is what will happen.
So unless you can tell me Mr. Finicum was mentally disabled, he committed suicide by cop.
In some ways, you are arguing uselessly here. You are completely right, but to some, the Federal Government is always wrong, facts don’t matter, and like washerwoman gossiping across the back fence; the more outrageous the rumor, the more they believe it.
In the Monicagate days, FR and Drudge were the two reliable sources of truth about what was really happening. Some of my MSM neighbors in the DC area then would not let an hour go by without checking Drudge and FR. Unfortunately, rationality here has been replaced by rumor.
BTW, in case one wants to condemn all the MSM, I would remind them that if Jackie Judd had not pressured the suits at ABC to break into a prerecorded “Nightline” broadcast and break the Monica story, we never would have heard about it.
The WaPo had the story 3 days earlier, and spiked it. The NYT had 80% of it, but was looking for ways to kill it. Jackie Judd and ABC brought the rest of the media, kicking and screaming, onto the story.
You mean, of course, an innocent victim who was being fired upon at the first stop, and was worried that unknown masked government thugs were going to murder the women that were with him.
Finicum was probably worried the masked back-shooters were going to rape and then kill the young girl that was in the truck.
After all - the kind of felonious scum that the innocent people in the truck were up against was revealed when the FBI sniper-assassins were caught - by other HONEST law enforcement - lying about shooting at Finicum and the truck .
The FBI sniper-assassin and his fibbie scum-buds committed federal felonies by lying about it, and covering it up.
The FBI was shooting at his truck as he exited, was he trying to get away from being shot at first?
The Oregon Investigation by the local shooting team revealed one of the shots hit the roof of LaVoy’s truck.
IN OREGON THE ONLY VIOLENCE AT THE PROTEST CAME THE FBI SIDE NOT THE PROTEST SIDE......
In a sense, its like Bull Connor using the dogs and water cannon on the teenagers peacefully protesting in the streets of Birmingham in May 1963.