Finicum himself said he never went anywhere unarmed, and given the fact that he’d just fled a police roadblock and clearly tired to reach into his coat, the police had no alternative but to shoot.
Wow... they had literately hundreds of other options.
Failing to yield to a police stop is not a felony nor is reaching into your coat. Further more depending on the legality of the roadblock he(lavoy) could have every right to use lethal to defend himself. Further into to that their is no evidence of him reaching into his coat. Their is evidence of his hands falling as bullets are flying all around him. He maybe not have been reaching for anything but was struck by bullets/tazers/gas rounds and knocked off balance.
The fact that no a single fbi or cop had a body camera and no footage from a single police car has been released the idea that he was reaching for anything is absurd at this point.
Let me tell you a story about your so called “no alternative” BS.
During the iraq war a unit was out on patrol. At that time a woman rounded a corner in the road and saw the patrol. The woman then pointed at the patrol and started yelling(in arabic) while shaking a large bag in front of her. She then started “charging”(if police talking about the event) quickly at the soldiers. The soldiers started backing up behind cover of building and vehicles. When the woman had approached to roughly 20 feet away the nearest soldier fired at the woman. He being a soldier knew how to aim and struck the woman in the leg. Their were 4 or so soldiers directly behind/next to the soldier and another 4 or so soldiers in turrets and so forth that could have taken a shot at the “charging” woman. Not a single soldier fired any rounds even though they were all aimed at her.
As the woman was laying on the ground a group of soldiers approached and checked out the bag. It was filled with homemade cookies. Quickly figuring out that the woman was not a suicide bomber they evaced her.
This was during bush’s term so ROE was open they could have put hundreds of rounds into her and no one could say they did anything legally wrong. Their were many suicide bombing happening at the time. She was not a US Citizen and had no US Constitutional rights.
The soldiers acted correctly and professionally.
Lets rewrite this as if it took place in say NYC.
During a police patrol of NYC. At that time a woman rounded a corner in the road and saw the patrol. The woman then pointed at the patrol and started yelling(in arabic) while shaking a large bag in front of her. She then started “charging” quickly at the police unit. The police started pulling their guns up and yelling at woman to stay back When the woman had approached to roughly 40 feet away the nearest police officer fired at the woman. He being a police officer fired 8 shoots. Their were 4 police directly behind/next to the police officer who also opened fire between 2 and 9 shots and another 4 police in turrets and so forth that fired 2-10 rounds at the “charging” woman.
The woman now being struck repeatedly is laying on the ground. The police move slightly closer only to see the woman reach for a weapon and they open fire against firing no less then 40 rounds total from no less then 8 officers. The police then wait several minutes and approach. At which time they find that the bag had a large number of donuts in it. The police then mill about aimlessly for several more minutes while eating the donuts.
A DA refuses to press charges against the police saying the shoot was perfectly legal.
stormer wrote on on FR at the time commenting about the police shooting “the police had no alternative but to shoot.”