Merkley said he has seen the video. Robert “LaVoy” Finicum did, in fact, have a loaded gun in an inside pocket, police say.
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The FBI has released a video showing officers shooting one of the OR militants dead.
“My only desire is to be home with family and take care of my wife and children”, Ammon Bundy, who was arrested earlier this week, told the judge. The occupation began almost a month ago.
Police pulled over the two vehicles as Bundy and two others exited the Jeep while Finicum and three others remained in the pickup truck.
In a request that the judge deny the occupiers’ bail, prosecutors cited Ammon Bundy’s disdain for the federal criminal justice system in an August 2015 Facebook post in which he wrote: “There is no justice in a federal court”. A ninth member was fatally shot by law-enforcement officers during a traffic stop on a rural road. He and an occupier riding with him – Brian Cavalier – were arrested.
He said it was “incumbent” on law enforcement to show the video of Finicum, who he said behaved recklessly and made a motion toward a gun in his coat pocket.
A man, identified as Finicum, then gets out of the truck and officers open fire as he reaches into his jacket.
“Finicum leaves the truck and steps through the snow”, Bretzing said. He gets out and has his hands up at first, then appears to reach toward his jacket pocket at least twice.
Bretzing said four occupiers are still holed up at the refuge, and are being urged to surrender. In a video posted Friday to the YouTube channel “DefendYourBase”, which the group has been using to give live updates, the occupiers said they were in contact with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
– Bundy and his followers were in two vehicles, heading to a community meeting Tuesday in the town of John Day, when they were confronted by federal agents.
Beckerman said she might also release citizen journalist Peter Santilli.
Finicum veered into the a snowbank and ran out of the auto, before being cornered by Oregon State Police troopers in Burns, Oregon. 223 caliber semi-automatic rifles and a. 38 special revolver. Note regarding date/time stamp in the left corner of video: Pilots use Zulu Time, also known as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), when they fly. The FBI acted amid growing calls that something be done to end the occupation, including from Oregon’s governor.
The Oregon State Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed on Thursday the person shot was Finicum, a 54-year-old rancher from Arizona.
Barbara Berg, an occupation sympathizer, is comforted at a roadblock near the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge outside Burns, Oregon.
The refuge has been under control of the militia members since January 2, after leaders of the group asked for the release of two jailed ranchers and for federal land to be turned over to local ranchers. But the compound has been emptying out since the arrest of Bundy, and 10 others over the past few days, and with the death of Finicum.
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Those arrested face charges that they used force or intimidation to prevent government employees at the refuge from carrying out their duties. Of those nine, six were released and three were arrested.
