Posted on 01/27/2016 7:23:04 AM PST by The All Knowing All Seeing Oz
BURNS – Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, the spokesman of the refuge occupation, was shot and killed after he charged police during a roadside stop north of Burns on Tuesday, according to a man on Facebook who claims to be the driver of one of two vehicles involved in the highway shooting.
Mark McConnell posted a video to Facebook Wednesday morning, recounting the Tuesday afternoon scene that led to Finicum's death and the subsequent arrest of eight people involved in the Jan. 2 takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
His account emerged as police established new checkpoints on roads leading to the refuge, where an unknown number of occupiers remained. Police said only local property owners would be allowed through. The number and exact location of the checkpoints couldn't immediately be established.
Seven of those arrested Tuesday were taken overnight to Portland, where they were booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center.
They included Ammon E. Bundy, 40, of Emmett, Idaho; his brother, Ryan C. Bundy of Bunkerville, Nevada; Ryan W. Payne, 32, of Anaconda, Montana; Brian Cavalier, 44, of Bunkerville, Nevada; Shawna J. Cox, 59, of Kanab, Utah; Joseph D. Oshaughnessy, 43, of Cottonwood, Arizona; and Peter T. Santilli, 50, of Cinncinati.
An eighth person, Jon Ritzheimer, surrendered to police in Arizona.
They were each charged with conspiracy to interfere with a federal official, a felony.
In his video, McConnell said Ammon Bundy and Cavalier were in the vehicle he was driving to John Day for a community meeting. He said Finicum was driving a pickup that carried Ryan Bundy, Payne, Cox and an 18-year-old girl.
He said as they traveled on U.S. 395 police vehicles pulled in behind them and stopped them. McConnell said he was removed by police first, then Ammon Bundy then Cavalier.
He said Finicum's pickup was stopped about 200 yards away, and one passenger already was on the ground in handcuffs.
McConnell said Payne and Cox later recounted how Payne and Finicum got into a "heated discussion" about what to do.
"LaVoy was passionate about this, about the movement," McConnell said.
McConnell said he noticed movement, and Finicum "took off" in the pickup with the remaining passengers. He said Payne and Cox described encountering a police roadblock about a mile north on the highway and apparently tried to get around it, becoming stuck in the snow.
"When he exited the vehicle, the rear wheels were still spinning," McConnell said. "He charged at law enforcement" and was shot.
McConnell disputed earlier accounts on social media that Finicum was shot while on his knees with his hands up.
McConnell said he and the 18-year-old were taken to Burns for questioning and later released.
His account couldn't be immediately confirmed, but several details matched accounts from law enforcement sources.
Meantime, the status of those at the refuge was unclear early Wednesday as the FBI and Oregon State Police set up the checkpoints. Late Tuesday, they established roadblocks near the refuge headquarters, parking a large front-end loader across Sod House Lane.
The FBI was negotiating into the night for the remaining occupiers to leave. Several were allowed to leave without arrest.
"The containment procedure involves a series of checkpoints established along key routes into and out of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge," the agencies said in a joint news release.
A news conference was scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in Burns. U.S. Attorney Billy Williams, FBI Special Agent in Charge Greg Bretzing and Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward were to address reporters.
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Does this happening in an election year mean we are in for another false flag event right before the election? “Right wing militants” will be blamed, yet again.
Think it’s crazy? It’s how Bill Clinton got re-elected. Oklahoma City was blamed on Rush and talk radio. Clinton got a second term from it.
Make a good tagline. Your post makes the most sense. Sad. Prayers for his 11 kids and wife and the others in jail. I’m twitching just thinking about being behind bars.
Think this is way too far before an election. Oct 15 and >, yes.
How long after Waco did Ok City happen?
2 years, but if someone is trying to scare voters, 3 to 10 days is best.
I.E., the 43 drunk driving story.
Yes, and the Feds, who don't seem to have any video, didn't threaten this guy with a bunch of felony charges unless he "saw the right things", either.
LOL! It's like watching Stalin's NKVD at work.
With ALL the time the Feds had setting up the ambush site, and with ALL the hullabaloo lately from blacks about body cams for cops, and ALL the advance warning and planning time in Oregon, the Feds should have NO trouble turning over video of the so-called “shoot-out” that supports their narrative. If they DO NOT (or CANNOT) produce the video, that constitutes PRIMA FACIE evidence of Federal culpability in murder. Q.E.D.
Is there any specific report as to whether or not there was dash cam or body cam video?
Hope, for everybody’s sake, one way or there other, there was.
The writer was not one of the protestors. He was supposedly quoting a protestor who was over a mile away and did not witness the shooting.
Actually, not quite evidence of a cover-up yet.
There would have to be a demonstration that at least one of the cars that made the stop had a dash cam, or the local cops had body cams. It seems they were the ones that initiated the stop.
That will be easy to establish.
Certainly hope they do to, one way or another, put issue to rest.
Unless it’s Chicago where a black man, high on pcp and armed with a knife gets shot charging the police, then it’s murder 1.
I just figured it out.
This is like the FBI "no recording" rule in one of their interviews.
They take notes, and submit a report.
See - the fibbies on the scene will draw pictures, and then submit a "drawing book" of what actually happened.
He was also not arrested while everyone else was.
The Fed Gear Queers can afford $15,000 submachine guns, but they can't afford video cameras that are EVERYWHERE in America, and available to the poorest?
Pull the other one.
He was 55 but I agree with everything else.
Yes, I find that difficult to believe as well.
Let’s try to keep this rational and real.
A guy, a husband and father, is dead.
Let’s get the facts, rather than name calling.
We forget the true nature of America's new NKVD.
As wardaddy posted:
Feds have a huge hammer over anyone else armed in that car
They can be charged with murder because the cops shot their pal
Crazy but true
America is full of well intended but liberty stripping laws mostly initiated by conservatives under the guise of public safety
Not only that - but "felony conspiracy to interfere"? You could have asked 1 million Americans on Monday if they knew about that particular Federal "felony" - and you would have gotten close to a million "Nos".
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