This particular shooting may have been ‘legal’.
However, the question is why does the government ‘own’ such large tracts of land and keep taking more (declaring large tracts as national monuments or other legal mumbo jumbo) which causes these conflicts with those who used to own the land or occupy large tracts near it ?
This instance is just one of many that keep occurring. Most, we never hear of. This one took a standoff to bring to the surface.
Oh, I agree 100%. Theyw ere protesting smething that needed protesting and they brought a lot of light on it.
We have been fighting this fight for years...decades...here in the west.
Klamath was another one that shined a light on it.
Slowly people across the country are becoming more and more aware of it.
I am very sorry that Lavoy was killed. He was a good father, grandfather, foster patent, and a good American. His death was completely unnecessary and I hope the people in charge of ordering that take down are investigated and held accountable.
Tragically, Lavoy made some serious mistakes in that entire incident on that afternoon on their way to John Day...and it cost him his life. He was unaware of how the law enforcement personnel would react to his driving off, his trying to go around a road block and almost hitting one of their number, and then getting out and acting erratically and reaching to his side. He should have simply gotten down on the ground spread eagle as soon as he jumped out of the truck.
But overall, he and the Bundys were shining the light on serious eroisions of constitutional rights.