Posted on 02/14/2023 1:50:24 PM PST by mac_truck
The top job at Oregon State Police has gone to Casey Codding, one of two state police troopers who fatally shot a leader of the armed Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation in January 2016, Gov. Tina Kotek announced Monday.
Codding, a 27-year veteran of Oregon State Police, shot Robert ‘LaVoy’ Finicum in the back after Finicum sped his truck toward a roadblock of state SWAT police and FBI agents. State police withheld the names of the two officers who fired at Finicum, but a witness let Codding’s name slip during subsequent court hearings about the shooting.
Now superintendent, Codding started as a cadet. He was promoted from lieutenant to captain after the shooting, and then rose to deputy superintendent.
“Through all of his roles, Codding held true to OSP’s mission and values to serve all people and our communities, property, and natural resources,” Kotek’s statement said.
Her office did not immediately respond to a question from The Oregonian/OregonLive about Codding’s involvement in the Malheur shooting and how it factored into her hiring decision.
Finicum, an Arizona rancher, was the spokesperson for the occupation at the wildlife refuge in southeastern Oregon that began Jan. 2, 2016.
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this guy and the ones who appointed him are part of that....
Yours and post 17 tell radically different stories. Since there is video this doesn’t have to be Roshomon. So which way did it happen?
Thanks
Off the top of my head I don’t recall all the details. They were being spied on. They were simply going to a meeting. They were unarmed.
Who says he ‘sped up’ to ‘ram’ a roadblock? The same people who shot him. All you’ll get if you search on-line is pretty much filtered to give the gov’t’s account.
Do you still believe what the gov’t tells you?
What podcast
“There are lots of reports that can be read, but they’re all pretty much from the lamestream media which makes Finicum the bad guy. He was unarmed. They essentially ambushed him & then shot him in the back. Just another crime against a conservative.’
Again, I don’t have the facts, however driving a vehicle at someone is as dangerous as being armed. If that is true. Just ask the Islamic terrorists.
Well, watch the video and see which version seems closer to the truth to you.
You been living under a rock thelast few years? Finicky is a patriot who died for the cause of freedom.
“Lavoy got out and had his hands up when he was shot in the back.”
He did not have his hands up (hands up don’t shoot meme) when he was shot. The video is not clear enough to see if it looked like he was reaching. All he had to do was raise his hands and keep them raised and not move.
Saying so doesn’t make itso. From the video he appears to be a victim of cop over reaction triggered I suppose , because they believed they were dealing with a dread ‘white nationalist terrorist’. This man seems to be victim of cop stupidity. In what way was he either a patriot or a hero and how was his foolish death a death for freedom? Serious questions. There too many posts such as yours here long on windy rhetoric and short on good sense.
“I guess that’s an “ambush” to a lot of FReepers”
Yep, it was a totally legit shooting. That’s why an FBI agent picked up his spent brass and then lied about it.
If the police set a road block up around the corner on a curve on a road that they have shut down and know that it is the only route from where the person is departing to where they are going I would call it entrapment.
Don’t give the vagtarian lunatic any ideas!
I don’t think he ‘drove at them.’ They were on a dark country road & it was an ambush. They didn’t just put up a roadblock where it could be clearly seen. Everything done was essentially deliberately done to allow violence on the part of the LEO’s. He was alone outside of the car, putting his hands up, & he was shot in the back.
Your rudeness is not appreciated but too typical of FR these days.
One-stop shopping for jerks & a-holes.
“Lavoy did have a pistol in his jacket pocket.”
Right, and when he threatened the police during one of his mouth-off sessions that had nothing to do with the actual land issue, he showed the police exactly where he kept his gun and said he wouldn’t be taken alive. They tried to peacefully arrest him, he fled. Tried to run the road block, got stuck.
Got out of the car, ran around a bit in the snow like an idiot, then stopped and then started to raise his hands. Then his right hand moved toward the known location his pistol. That was the last of his many mistakes.
“ I don’t much about this event. If one drives at high spped at a police road block isn’t general SOP for cops to fire on the vehicle speeding towards them? Real questions here.”
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You seriously need to learn to NOT BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ. I remember this KILLING clearly. There’s video out there both from drones and from inside LaVoy’s vehicle. You can do some limited search and find it. He had STOPPED HIS VEHICLE and, following orders, exited his vehicle. He did have a handgun on him but it was in his pocket and he wasn’t reaching for it. This stop was part of a planned assassination.
Typical democrat communist thug double down
They had already shot at him, while he was still in the truck.
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