It has been posted that LaVoy left his gun HOME. IOW he was unarmed. He was right-handed and they say he reached down to his LEFT side. I assume that’s where he was shot the first time. It is alleged he was shot multiple times according to the witnesses in his truck. Hard to see on the grainy film!!!
If this was not a planned setup trap, WHY was drones involved in this terribly incident, the so-called “Traffic Stop. Makes No sense. Then there was a blackout on their film also???
CLIP: “As police stood by with guns trained on the truck, Payne was arrested. Finicum and his passengers remained in the idle truck for about four more minutes as officers hollered for them to surrender, Bretzing said.
FBI video shows Ryan Bundy surrendering to police
The FBI released video footage of the traffic stop that ended in the death of Robert “LaVoy” Finicum, one of the spokesmen for the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. This excerpt shows Ryan Bundy getting out his car and tossing his gun in the snow.
That period was blacked out in the video, which resumed with footage of Finicum’s truck speeding away from the scene. Officers trailed in a black SUV, and shots were fired at the truck. It rounded two bends in the road, then rammed into a snowbank to avoid a police roadblock. As it came to a stop, the truck nearly hit an officer who was standing alongside the road.
His hands raised, Finicum ran out of the car and toward the snowbank, yelling at police. Then, as police approached with guns drawn, he reached toward the left side of his waist. He began to put his hands back up, then reached down again.
Bretzing said Finicum was reaching toward a jacket pocket that contained a loaded 9 mm semi-automatic handgun.
The video shows Finicum being shot, then falling on his back. He raised his arm, then lay still.”
Read my report...I plainly state that it ws no “routine traffic stop.” That is ludicrous.
Of course it was a planned operation to capture the Bundys.
It was senseless.
Read my own report at
http://www.jeffhead.com/Lavoy.htm
and follow the link there to the Flickr album with the higher res pictures.
I am pretty sure Lavoy was armed...he almost always was.
But that would not matter given what happened. He did narrowly miss the one officer and that would be viewed as a willingness to inflict bodily harm on them.
He did not get down after getting out of the vehicle and he did appear to reach to his side twice. He was known to be armed and was acting in such a way tin that very dangerous situation that led to the shooting.
I am upset that that is the case because it was unnecessary. The overall stop...and then Lavoy’s own decisions while it was going on.
I have looked frame by frame at the video and the pictures and saw no evidence of any bullet impacts on the car at the first stop...none.
But guess what...here I am repeating myself for the umpteenth time.
Don’t bother pinging me any more. I’ve had more than my say on this.
Wonder if he was trying regain his balance in deep snow...