LaVoy Finicum shooting: Indictment of agent "devastating" for FBI (OREGON STANDOFF)

OregonLive ^ | 6/28/2017 | Maxine Bernstein

[Nextrush]

An indictment accusing an FBI agent of lying to hide the he fired two shots at Robert "LaVoy" Finicum and missed caps an 18-month investigation....

Deschutes County Sheriff Shane Nelson credited his investigators for their tenaciousness.....

The sheriff also revealed that FBI leaders, told of his department's findings more than a year ago, didn't put the agent or four of his colleagues on leave.....

all members of the Hostage Rescue Team.....

The indictment of W. Joseph Astarita, 40, of New York casts a shadow on the highly trained team......

"I'm encouraged. I'm thrilled that the grand jury came back with this finding," said Finicum's widow, Jeanette Finicum......

She said Astarita's shots may have contributed to the firing of the fatal gunshots moments later by two state police troopers.....

Astarita, wearing a dark gray pinstriped suit, white shirt and red-and-blue striped tie, showed no emotion as he sat beside his lawyer in a packed federal courtroom.....

Defense lawyer Alison Clark entered not guilty pleas on Astarita's behalf to the five-count indictment....

It charged Astarita with three counts of making false statements and two counts of obstruction of justice.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Janice M. Stewart set a trial date for Aug. 29.......

Astarita will remain out of custody pending trial. Federal prosecutors referred repeatedly to Astarita as an FBI special agent but they and an FBI spokesman declined to say whether Astarita has been placed on leave or reassigned......

Sheriff Nelson crtiticized the FBI for failing to place Astarita and the other Hostage Rescue Team agents on paid leave when he and investigators traveled to FBI headquarters over a year ago. They briefed the FBI's then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, now acting director.........

[Candor7]

McCAbe is not an FBI agent. He is a liberal fascist political operative who belongs behind bars.In short McCabe is an Obama henchman.

[i_robot73]

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Actually, there will NEVER be any justice for LeVoy. He was murdered by cops, and he’s dead forever. That said, these perpetrators ( all five of them) need long jail terms.
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These were just the ones to carry out the orders; the orders, and ‘big plan’ were from above...but, I suspect, *this* is where the path will end in prosecutions.

No justice will be found while we have this ‘Democracy’.

[T-Bone Texan]

"...If they think that it is bad now, wait until Judgement Day..."

Justice delayed is justice denied.

I want to see Feds swinging from ropes for their many crimes.

Maybe I feel this way because I just got done rereading Unintended Consequences, which contains the best last one third of any book I ever read, because it's all about assassinating Feds for their crimes.

Or maybe I just sense a great injustice.

[theBuckwheat]

The fish rots from the head down, and this fish had a very big, very rotten, head. The FBI has been corrupted and weaponized. It will take a long time to repair the damage.

Too many people in power think government is god.

[sport]

I want to see Feds swinging from ropes for their many crimes.
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You and me both, Brother.

[ptsal]

You are right. It would be interesting to see a video covering McCabe that is similar to O'Keefe's slap-down of the Washington Post.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQjvrZtKMq4

[DoodleDawg]

Claim he feared for his life when he shot Finicum and the agent will get off. Happens all the time when the victim is black.

[sport]

That one works pretty well for them when the victim is White also.

[central_va]

"There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery -- then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved."

--- Jesse Jackson

[vette6387]

“These were just the ones to carry out the orders; the orders, and ‘big plan’ were from above...but, I suspect, *this* is where the path will end in prosecutions.”

Perhaps, but anyone involved going to jail will be a welcome change from the status quo where everyone skates.

[kiryandil]

You don’t destroy evidence and write a false report for a justified shooting. you do it to justify a bad shooting.

But but but - an apologist already weighed in with "Important info from the article".

Some freepers will write ANYTHING to justify the actions of their murderous heroes...

[KC Burke]

[KC Burke]

[null and void]

Worth repeating:

You don’t destroy evidence and write a false report for a justified shooting, you do it to justify a bad shooting.

[qaz123]

If they charge the other agents, they dont have to testify. Now they can be called as witnesses and any statements or evidence can be matched up against what they say at trial.

[Nextrush]

That does make sense and we shall see at the trial if that plays out.

[dsc]

“McCabe is quite the turd.”

What decent person would accept a job from Obunghole?

[jospehm20]

I think he was there before Dorkbama. His depravity was simply encouraged to blossom under the Dorkbama regime.

[faucetman]

“This was what we called an “Ambush.”

And it unfolded as a Murder/Ambush. “

We have a winner!

[rx]

LaVoy Finicum, father of 12, was shot three times, all in the back. Yet somehow the executioners "saw" him reaching for a gun that was in his inner jacket pocket, yet ran around behind him to shoot him in the back. Uh, huh.

I saw a video, taken from within the vehicle in which LaVoy had ridden. There seemed to be a hail of gunfire (more than a dozen bangs/shots, at least as pertains the sounds that could be heard). It may be that many were flash bangs, intended to convince whomever that they were being fired upon, and their only chance for survival would be a shoot-out, thus provoking gun-fire. That's an awful trick. Nonetheless, LaVoy kept his head and (the video shows) was not reaching for any gun when he was felled.