Keep in mind that pretty much the government of every nation throughout history has always ended up turning on its own people sooner or later.
Stepping through the video frame by frame from when Finicum exits the truck until the shooting is interesting. The guy in the woods was there all along and it looks like Finicum was responding first to him and then to the other one coming over the snowbank. It’s hard to say from the video what happened. Snowbank man may have shot him as well and then woods man charged out blasting. He never should have left the stop.
The video agrees with several points of the young lady’s testimony.
At the first stop, I see hands reach out from the pickup. The young lady says they were shot at. This would cause Finicum to flee.
Then I see a blind roadblock set up. The cop who almost got himself ran over was incredibly stupid enough to get himself out in the active path of a vehicle. He’s a dummy. Not Finicum’s fault if he’s fleeing people who are shooting at him and a car full of people.
Finicum runs out with his hands up, and there just happens to be a cop behind him out in the frigid forest? Finicum not aware of him, probably surprised. He looks like he’s wanting to give up and drop any weapon he has. No chance, shot in the back. There clearly is no intent by Finicum to charge any cop.
Note also that there were no ambulances on site, and I see no medical personnel. No one approached Finicum after he was shot to check his medical status. I guess they planned on a perfect stop and arrest with no confrontation, correct?
Then I see multiple flash bang grenades and shots into the vehicle. Agrees with the girl’s statement of many rounds fired and being gassed. Were they planning on shooting until all in the vehicle were dead?
At no time in the first stop or the second did these cops attempt to de-escalate. The first stop could have gone smoothly had a sheriff with balls approached the vehicle to talk and keep the emotions down.
These people were known to be on their way to a meeting with locals. These cops had no intention of a peaceful stop and arrest.
If cops start shooting at you when you have been stopped, what are you going to do?