roadblock 6 miles from refuge south of Crane
Oregon standoff: 7 occupiers held in Portland; 'LaVoy' Finicum dead (live updates)
Several armored vehicles & what appears 2 b a black hawk at airport in Burns
https://twitter.com/bethnakamura/status/692390663384621056/photo/1
Washington Post (and Wikipedia) is still referring to a “shootout”
Not sure why when every indication is there was no exchange of gunfire.
Remember in the old days Sheriffs didn’t shoot someone just because they had a gun?
2:06 p.m. (PST): Tim Smith — a Burns-area businessman and member of the Harney County Committee on Safety, a group of six local residents formed at the urging of protest leader Ammon Bundy — called the deadly confrontation outside of Burns “very unfortunate” and said federal authorities should disclose exactly what happened.
He said he knows the spot where the shooting occurred, an area 20 miles north of Burns in Devine Canyon along U.S. 395, and described it as a scene out of “an old western movie.”
“This is pretty upsetting for everyone,” Smith said.
But the committee still expects to take up Bundy’s cause, he said. “We’re going to continue to do what our goals have been,” he said.
Bundy has said the occupiers of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge want two local ranchers freed from prison and local control of federal land in Harney County.
While endorsing the attention that Bundy brought to rural issues, Smith and the local committee members asked Bundy and his group of out-of-state protesters to leave the refuge and Smith repeated that Wednesday. A small group of people are believed to remain at the bird sanctuary about 30 miles southeast of Burns.
“For their sake, I hope they go home. ... We asked the Bundy group to go home a long time ago,” Smith said.
Portland? Sheesh, they may as well take them to Havana.
“Shoot out?” Doesn’t that imply two sides shooting?
So far that I have read, from Leos is that they fired the shots.
Maybe I missed the report...
5.56mm
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.