The
standoff between BLM, loaw enforcement officials and protesters
occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon,
turned deadly Tuesday night. Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, a spokesman for
the protesters, and several protest leaders were pulled over by the FBI
while they were on their way into Burns to attend a public meeting.
That event lead to a shooting and the death of Finicum as well as a
gunshot wound to Ryan Bundy. The rest of the protest leaders in the
cars were arrested and Ammon Bundy, the main leader of the protest,
telephoned his wife from the back of a squad car to tell her that
Finicum had his hands in the air and was cooperating when he was shot.
All involved law enforcement agencies had refused comment as of post
time yesterday.
Those
protesters remaining at the refuge compound dug in their heels and put
out a press release asking for reinforcements. The local sheriff says
that he will no longer tolerate the protest and law enforcement
officials have sealed off the main road leading to the refuge. The word
is that more agents were being called to the scene and were beginning
to surround the area.
The
fact that no one is talking about who fired the first shot and what
went down Tuesday night leads me to believe that neither Finicum nor
Bundy initiated the shootout. Undoubtedly, the silence is caused by all
law enforcement officials involved wanting to get their stories
straight.
Why
don't they just send in some flame-throwing tanks, helicopters and
drones and just kill every one of those protesters off? I wonder if
Janet Reno signed off on this operation?
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