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My apologies 'Miss' Kathy!!! I messed up with the link!!!
Posted on 02/27/2016 11:46:24 AM PST by azkathy
Harney County, Or-During a traffic stop on a deserted stretch of Hwy 395 in south eastern Oregon, LaVoy Finicum with four passengers in his truck came to a complete stop. Ryan Payne who was sitting in the front seat, stuck both hands out of the passenger window to demonstrate that he was unarmed and posed no threat to law enforcement. It was at that time, said Shawna Cox, a passenger in the back seat, that she heard shots ring out as a bullet hit the rear view mirror post on Payne’s side of the truck, right next to his outstretched hands. At first she thought the bullet had hit the metallic bracelet on his wrist. She said Payne, recoiling from the shot, jerked his arms back inside the vehicle.
The group was on their way to John Day, Oregon, for a scheduled pubic meeting with local ranchers, townspeople, and anyone interested in learning about what’d been going on in Harney County. In the truck with Finicum were Ryan Payne, Shawna Cox, Victoria Sharp (18years old), and Ryan Bundy.
After taking fire during the traffic stop, Payne told Finicum he wanted to get out; “These guys are serious” he said. Payne repeatedly told law enforcement as he exited the vehicle that there were women in the truck. Shawna Cox said she heard them shout back to send the women out. But the young Sharp girl was terrified and she told Finicum she wasn’t going to get out because they were being shot at. Cox said her motherly instinct kicked in and she said she wasn’t going to leave this young girl in the back seat unprotected. It was then that Finicum told law enforcement he was going to see the Sheriff, and Cox said he started off down the road.
Cox said she started trying to call or text to let others know what was going on, but there was no cell service. She said this seemed odd because right up till the time of the stop, she had actively been sending text messages and had cell service, “we just had it, and now we had nothing”. That’s when she said she knew they had been set up. Without cell service she decided she would start filming and trying to record what was happening with her camera.
When she asked LaVoy how far they had yet to go, he said about fifty miles. Cox said she thought about the vehicles in pursuit, wondering if their tires would get shot out by them. It was about that time that she said she couldn’t tell if LaVoy was hitting the brakes, or they were just plowing through slush, which was spraying up beside the rear truck windows. She said as they swerved she could see the vehicles in the middle of the road blocking their passage. She said as they swerved to avoid hitting them “we got stuck” in the snow. She said “immediately there are lasers everywhere, all over, and LaVoy jumps out, he flings open the door, and throws his hands in the air, and he jumps out and starts running through this deep snow. We can see him, and I have it on video, we’re just freaking out because there are bullets flying- he’s yelling “go ahead and shoot me, go ahead and shoot me”. I honestly believe that he was trying to draw fire away from us.” At this time during the interview she becomes emotional, holding back tears and continues, “LaVoy’s a father of many girls-he’s very protective. I think he was drawing the fire away from us.”
Cox said they were hunkered down in the back seat of the vehicle to avoid gunfire, but that she had her camera videoing what she could. “They’re shooting all the windows out. And we can’t get out, we’re pinned down.”
Ryan Bundy was trying to look out but they kept pushing him down as they continued to dodge the lasers and bullets. We knew they had killed LaVoy by then, but they were just trying to stay down to avoid being hit.
Cox said the window next to her head had been hit four or five times but that one hadn’t broke, which she said was a miracle of God’s protection. She said we just lay there and kept praying. She said the shooting went on for at least five or ten minutes it seemed, though there was no way to tell. She said that she and Victoria had been yelling for them to stop, but they wouldn’t stop shooting, and they had also fired some sort of gas into the vehicle, making it hard to breathe, and their eyes were burning.
Finally the shooting stopped and they told the man to get out. “I don’t think they knew it was Ryan Bundy.” And when Bundy got out he said “I got hit in the shoulder”. She said it was in his right shoulder.
After he got out, Cox said Victoria was next and they took both into custody. Then Cox said she was ordered out, and as she got out had to put down her phone camera and papers she was carrying.
As she and Victoria walked beside the vehicle they could see LaVoy laying dead in the snow. She said he was facing up. “He was laying back in the snow, and his feet were deep down in the snow, and he had his hands out like this [she had her arms stretched out]. The left had was out [to the side] and his right hand was kind of at his chest. His hat was still on.”
Then Cox tells how they were taken over to the other side of the truck and seated on the ground as they were cuffed. She said as they were walking they were asked repeatedly if anyone else was in the vehicle. Cox told them no, they were it. That’s when she said they opened fire again, this time shooting out the window where she had been sitting a few minutes ago.
Cox said she began telling the FBI and State Troopers present; “You murdered him in cold blood, he didn’t have a gun.” She remarked that he did not have a gun in his hand and though he typically carried a side arm on his right hip in a holster, a revolver, they didn’t take the guns to meetings, so she was sure she did not see him with a gun as he exited the vehicle, and he definitely did not have one in his hands.
She said as they looked over where LaVoy’s body lay, she could see “all these men coming out from behind the trees. I’ll bet you there were like twenty four of them. They had the long guns, and they had these caps like with binoculars’ that flip down. It was like this army; a battlefield.” Cox estimated that there were hundreds of rounds fired into their truck. “I believe they intended to kill us all”.
Cox said as they were lead down the road to be placed into a van, she told them again that they had murdered an innocent man and that she felt sorry for them, and she’d pray for them. They got in the van and sat there for a very long time, trying to keep warm.
They recognized that Ryan Bundy had been shot, so they called for an ambulance which picked him up.
Then, they took them back down the road to where the other vehicle that was travelling behind them was, and “there we saw Ammon and Booda and Mark and Ryan Payne, and they loaded them in the van with us.
She said then they just sat there for hours, in the back of this van. Cox asked if they were under arrest, and she was told “no, you’re just being detained”.
They were then all hauled back to Burns in the van. At that point they were all split up into SUV’s at a rest area and shuttled to Portland. Cox said they drove like “madmen” eighty miles an hour the whole way.
After three days in custody in Portland, Cox was released Friday night Jan 29th. She said she was just turned out in the lobby of the jail with nothing but a set of street clothes they gave her (not her own) and a $50 VISA card. She did not have her purse or identification, her credit cards, camera, cell phone, or any of her personal items. She had not signed any release forms, and was given no conditions for her release.
On Sunday she got a call from her attorney, a public defender, and was informed she had to come back to Portland (she was already on her way home to southern Utah) to get an ankle bracelet and sign a conditional release document.
She is basically on house arrest, confined to her own home until trial. She cannot be on any federally owned property except a Post Office, she cannot be in the presence of firearms, and she cannot contact any of her co-defendants.
On a separate but related issue, her husband was informed there could be no firearms in the house upon her return, so he took them to a family member’s home for safe keeping. Her son-in law stored them in a shop-office building on the property near his home and was working outside that day on a piece of equipment. He went inside to get warm by the woodstove, and Shawna said they believe something ignited, and the building went up in flames. By the time her daughter, who was down at the house, became aware of the fire the emergency vehicles were pulling up.
Absolute chaos was the way the scene was described by her daughter, as bullets were going off, they couldn’t get to her husband and he perished in the fire which consumed the entire structure. Cox said that much speculation has been out there about the tragedy being related, but she said the family believes it was “just a terrible accident” and that they do not suspect foul play.
How can we allow this to be normal behavior by the "authorities"? Will you stand with the Patriots?
As it is here, it makes as much sense as "someone set us up the bomb."
Slight sympathy for you, my Great Grandfather tried to fight against the Feds and it didn't work out very well.
Bttt.
5.56mm
The Clintons set fire to the Branch Davidians’ home in Waco and burned to death dozens of people, including 24 children. So killing a rebel rancher here and there is nothing to the enforcers of the Big Government religion. Bill Clinton and Janet Reno would have been charged with a war crime had this massacre been visited upon civilians of a foreign country, but it didn’t bother the Demcrat media at all, and the sheeple watched TV.
Sure I can. Have you heard of the “Occupiers at the Wildlife Refuge” ? Or the Arizona Rancher who was killed in Oregon (Lavoy Finicum)? Well this is their side of the story from eye witnesses who know what happened.
This is from a friend on Facebook,
“THIS IS THE TRUTH ABOUT WHY OREGON STATE POLICE, HARNEY COUNTY SHERIFF AND THE FEDS CONSPIRED TO ASSASSINATE LAVOY. HE WAS KILLED BECAUSE HE WAS EDUCATING PEOPLE!
Further confirmation as to why the feds needed to stop LaVoy and Ammon.
Hundreds of people were freely coming into the refuge to get education on their rights. Many group presentations were given each day. On Saturday, the 24th, ten ranchers from Oregon, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona nullified their grazing contracts with the BLM and U.S. Forest Service.
On Saturday, the 24th, grand jury administrators from Nebraska and Florida were forming a grand jury to review the abuses in the Hammond case. Tuesday, the 26th, the day LaVoy was killed, we began releasing documents exposing criminal acts by the government.
The evening of the 26th, a meeting was scheduled with Grant County residents to give a presentation with those at the refuge. To give their presentation to hundreds of people in the county, including the county Sheriff.
The FBI attacked those who were to give the presentation on the way to this peaceful meeting, leaving hundreds at the meeting with no speakers.
On Wednesday, the 28th, a follow up meeting was scheduled with Harney County residents with those at the refuge to finalize actions to claim back lands that were taken by the BLM, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and United States Forest Service. This included plans to take action to begin logging again in Harney County and to restore the thriving economy once known to the Harney County residents.
On Thursday evening, the 29th, a meeting was scheduled with Malheur County residents with those at the refuge to give a presentation on the constitution as it pertained to federal limits to land ownership inside the states.
This meeting was to occur in Ontario, Oregon. Hundreds were expected to attend. The sheriff’s Department also accepted the invitation and was scheduled to attend.
On Friday afternoon, the 30th, residents surrounding Jordan Valley, Oregon, had scheduled a seminar with those at the refuge to come out and inform them of how they can protect themselves from a national monument that is to be signed in by President Obama this year, 2016. This monument is twice the size of Yellowstone, takes up a third of the county’s land mass, and will put over 250 ranchers out of business as they know it. Ranchers from Malheur county were scheduled to nullify their contracts with the U.S. Forest Service.
In the following weeks, meetings were scheduled in Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and the State of Washington. Multiple Skype meetings were also set up throughout the Western U.S. All these meetings were to discuss how they would stand against the unconstitutional land control by the federal government.
Those at the refuge collected over 50 testimonies of ranchers who lost their family property to the U.S. Government in Harney and surrounding counties. Hundreds of government documents were compiled by those at the refuge. Many of the documents exposed abusive actions by federal government officials, Judge Grasty, Harney County Sheriff’s Department and direct abuses to the Hammond family.
Escalation of force from the FBI, OSP, and the Sheriff’s Department incrementally increased as the education from the refuge expanded. Government officials knew that if they did not take forceful preemptive action to stop the expanding the influence of the refuge, many would begin to stand for land rights as protected by the United States Constitution. Make no mistake about it: those that were educating at the refuge and are now suffering in jail at this time are political prisoners.
Those at the refuge never pointed a gun and never pulled a trigger to kill. They chose to educate, giving others the freedom to choose. The government promoted fear and forceful tactics to control and stop this education. And ultimately, they used force by the barrel of the gun.”
PING!
Rallies are being held in over 40 states on March 5th in support of LaVoy Finicum and all the other Patriots jailed unconstitutionally.
The overwhelming impression I get from reading this account is that the US Government is very afraid of the people and are acting out accordingly.
Thanks for posting,AZKathy.
Updates on the 68 warrants?
No updates on arrests yet. Please pray there are no more. Clivens youngest son is left to run the ranch and shoulder all this. He is only 18.
I did learn today that the families were able to get some of the vehicles and personal belongings out of the refuge and the lawyers for the defense have been gathering what evidence they can from the refuge.
I know that photographic evidence is being gathered and given to the attorneys as well.
I’m sympathetic, but I want to know one thing.
If this assembly of ranchers had a purpose to educate and advocate for affected communities, then why was it necessary to occupy a federal building that had been closed down for the season?
In reflection of past atrocities I note it’s always Democrats. Always.
I believe they decided they had to bring attention to the plight of the ranchers, Dwight and Steven Hammond from Harney County Oregon. (They were illegally re-sentenced to additional jail time after serving their original sentences, AKA Double jeopardy for starting a back burn.)
There are literally hundreds if not thousands of these stories of Ranchers suffering under the heavy hands of these federal agencies with no recourse. I believe they thought an act of civil disobedience would educate and help bring to light all of the problems. They just didn’t think they would get killed for doing it.
In the video I saw of Mr. Finicum’s shooting; he got out of
his vehicle, put his hands up, and was shot dead. - He had
made a video in which he pointed out that the federal gov.
is limited in the amount of land it can legally own. Owning
that grazing land is very high-handed; looks like it was just seized in order to charge “fees” on it for grazing
“rights”. - People are too busy with their noses stuck in
the tee-vee set & sports events to ever get a clue.
Leaving the area wasn’t smart. The protestors had to know the feds were watching. Did they think the obama regime was gonna treat them like lib occuppyers!
sadly hardly anyone even cares about this any more- they are more interested in rubio and trump acting like children calling each other names than they are about gov sanctioned attack on peaceful protesters - Had this happened under a republican president, the msm would be screaming bloody hell- and they’d be all over it still
Waco was a travesty, and people were shocked it happened, but the MSM spun it in such a manner as to seem like there was no other recourse to take- with finnicum murder- the msm hardly even mentions it and they sure as heck aint gonna run the eye witness testimony of those who somehow, miraculously, escaped begin taken out by their own government
We are now in an age of “Oh well, let’s move on’ where nothign matters- nothign shocks anymore- nothing moves people-
Hell- Christie is obviously brown nosing someone he ripped just a little while ago, everyone knows he’s brown nosing, and noone even cares anymore and He’s not even ashamed he’s doing it- that’s how far this country has sunk- there is no sense of shame any longer!
This incident/ambush should be a major shameful blight on this president’s ‘legacy’ yet it won’t even affect him in any way shape or form
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