you don’t sound much like a cop. just the facts man. not interested in opinion. only interested in the facts.
imo, you’re presentation of the context is absurd.
the actual context, if we are to believe the reports from bundy, is more like: this was an act of purposeful civil disobedience by American citizens who purposely put themselves in harm’s way, and believed they are exercising their constitutional rights to dissent from authority.
authority just exercised their perrogative to define that protest as an unlawful threat to society and forcefully arrest it, with prejudice.
Everyone has a right to an opinion. I am okay with you having one that is different than mine.
If you care to test your theory try this out when a cop tries to pull you over and come back and let us know the results. Even better - let them have probable cause to arrest you for a felony crime for occupying public property in a state where you don’t reside after you have been asked and told by the local Sheriff to leave. Up the ante a bit, parade around for television cameras beforehand with this guy -
make sure to talk about how you are always armed for the cameras and you would rather die than go to prison. Stop for the officer and just sit there for minutes before you take off. Give them time to set up a roadblock and make sure you try to drive around it. When you finally wreck make sure you jump out and run away.
Come back and let us know how it worked out and I wish you luck.
Here he is in his own words - looks to me like he picked his hill to die on and he did it. I’ll give him this - he struck me as a man even if I did not agree with he and his friends and think his death was tragically stupid.
More from the man himself -
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/28/us/lavoy-finicum-protester-killed-in-oregon.html?_r=0
This was not murder.
The authority exercised their prerogative at Waco too, but it didn’t end there, did it? There’s a civil war going on now. When you get democrats running the country, notice how it heats up.