LaVoy Finicum's death in Oregon occupation prompts memorials across country

[phantom power]

Yeah, it's totally inexplicable why law enforcement might shoot you, after you spend a month loudly advocating for a revolution against the federal government, announcing your intentions to "defend yourself" from those same people, and then reach for your gun.

Robert "LaVoy" Finicum was shot to death by the side of a remote Oregon road. Few were there to see him die, but hundreds of people around the country have indicated they will attend rallies and vigils in his memory this weekend.

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Though the FBI said Finicum was reaching for a gun before he was shot, some rally organizers said he should not have died.

"If he was breaking laws, they should have arrested him. He didn't have that chance," said Krista Etter, who has scheduled a rally in front of the federal courthouse in West Palm Beach, Florida. "He didn't get to be heard to prove he was guilty of anything."

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One of the largest rallies this weekend is scheduled for Feb. 6 at the Washington Capitol in Olympia. As of Feb. 4, 200 people had indicated they would attend.

"We will stand to show that We, AMERICANS, will never allow one more innocent person to die at the hands of the Government," reads the event description on Facebook.

http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/02/lavoy_finicums_death_in_oregon.html#incart_big-photo

[boomer55]

1. and if the feds were smart they'd track everyone who went to one and put them on a special list

called insurrectionist supporters and keep track of them. but they're not brown or muslim so it will never happen.

[malthaussen]

2. In fairness, the number of young men shot "reaching for their waistbands"...

... is legion. It appears to be a default excuse for a LEO to shoot a citizen. Most who are shot under such conditions, however, do not publicly express beforehand their intention of not being taken alive.

Ultimately, I think this was a case of suicide-by-cop, unlike many other officer-involved shootings.

-- Mal

[Iggo]

3. "If he was breaking laws, they should have arrested him. He didn't have that chance"

Um, yeah, he did have that chance...at the first roadblock...that he blew through.

[NobodyHere]

5. Why do I feel that there are parallels

between this and Michael Brown?

[malaise]

6. Which Federal property did Michael Brown seize?

Please

[NobodyHere]

7. He charged a cop.

Finicum reached for his belt.

Both are martyrs for their respective causes.

[B Calm]

13. You saying Michael Brown charged while holding and aiming his gun at the cop?

[NobodyHere]

14. That is exactly what I said

Nice reading comprehension ya got there.

[B Calm]

15. Here I thought Michael Brown was unarmed, learn something new everyday.

[phantom power]

16. Brown was not armed.

Brown and Johnson then fled, with Wilson in pursuit of Brown. Brown stopped and turned to face the officer, then Brown moved toward him.[6] Wilson fired at Brown several times in total, all shots striking him in the front, with the possible exception of the two bullets fired into Brown's right arm.[7] In the entire altercation, Wilson fired a total of twelve bullets;[8] the last was probably the fatal shot.[9][10][11] Brown was unarmed and moving toward Wilson when the final shots were fired.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Michael_Brown

[randome]

23. Stop focusing on the details!

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[B Calm]

25. Those pesky details always get in the way for SOME PEOPLE, LOL.

[randys1]

26. No he didnt.

[11 Bravo]

8. Have any snack bars been named for him yet?

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. It has to be manly

so perhaps a new type of beef jerky.



I should not make fun, a man is dead. But these guys started an occupation forgetting the first rule of warfare, an army, even a misguided occupation of a federal wild life refuge, relies on a full stomach.

[Glassunion]

12. Bounty?

Or maybe this one?

[L. Coyote]

10. He wanted to go down in a hail of bullets. He got his wish.

He thought he could be a martyr, he'll be remembered as a criminal who made stupid decisions.

He was really good at stealing cameras and following his delusions.[center]

[randome]

11. "Finicum's Wake"

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[Rex]

18. He should have stayed behind the blue tarp, he would still be alive.

But no...he had to run off and try and cause sedition elsewhere.

[TorchTheWitch]

30. he should have stayed at home

Instead of breaking into and occupying a federal building while armed and threatening to shoot anyone that had a problem with it.

[Rex]

34. Left behind a lot of kids.

[hifiguy]

19. It will be written in crayon

on an empty dildo box. And not by James Joyce.

[Rex]

17. Where were these folks when the people of Ferguson screamed out for help?

Where were they when Chicago, New York, LA, Cincinnati all decided to murder someone without any chance at a trial?

[hifiguy]

20. Tarp Guy was a white Real 'murkan. nt

[Rex]

21. True...I guess they need to modify their cute little saying on facebook.

Cause we sure the hell know they don't mean minorities! Bunch of two faced liars and cowards to boot.

[geomon666]

22. A gun and a tarp is all a real murikan needs!

[Rex]

36. Also the camo on the legs, that way the tarp only need cover

just a small portion of the body.

[Egnever]

24. I doubt even half these people will actually show up.

I wouldn't make too much of these folks they were all bluster until the feds showed then all but 5 of them scattered like rats.

[Rex]

35. Oh I don't, I take it like the zillion biker rallies and tea party truckers. nt

1 = 100,000 in Foxnews ratio.

[0rganism]

27. "He didn't have that chance" (of being arrested & tried)

seems to me, he DID have that chance, but he opted to try to run a roadblock and plowed into a snowbank instead
even then, he could have simply kept his hands up and been arrested like the rest of the group

"We, AMERICANS, will never allow one more innocent person to die at the hands of the Government"
of course, when an unarmed black youth is shot dead by cops with minimal provocation, these same people will argue until the sun goes down that he deserved it because he's a "dangerous thug" or some other such bullshit.

[Mendocino]

28. There is one of these

about 45 minutes away from me. It would interesting to go for the freak show/carnival aspect of it, but I know my vehicle would be vandalized.

[Aristus]

29. Thousands mourn Lavoy Finicum.

And none of them missed a day of work.

[rug]

31. They should start a gofundme for a tarpoleum.

[ribrepin]

32. They already have one for funeral expenses

https://www.gofundme.com/4vqykhns

Fellow patriots don't seem to be stepping up quickly. Only $1305 of $10,000 in seven days.

[Generic Other]

33. Lots of kooks at Finicum's wake!

In the folk tradition, I present my version of an old Irish folksong
Sung to this wonderful Irish tune (Tim Finnegan's Wake):
https://www.flutetunes.com/tunes.php?id=434

Finicum lived on a western ranch, a crazy coot and mighty dumb
He claimed he owned the public land and stood his ground with an old shotgun

You see he'd a sort of a rightwing way with a sense of entitlement he was born
To help him on his way each day, he'd ruffle some feathers every morn

Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner around the floor yer trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of kooks at Finicum's Wake

One morning Finicum full of bull, his head felt heavy which made him shake
Charged the cops and he lost his life, and they carried him home his corpse to wake
Rolled him up in a nice blue tarp, and laid him out upon the bed
The Constitution at his feet and a bunch of snacks at his head

Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner around the floor yer trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of kooks at Finicum's Wake

His friends assembled at the wake, and Mrs Finicum called for lunch
First she brought in teaparty cake, then pipes, tobacco and whiskey punch
Cliven Bundy began to cry, "Such a nice clean corpse, did you ever see,
Le Voy my boy, why did you die? Now Harney County will never be free!"

Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner around the floor yer trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of kooks at Finicum's Wake

Then Fluffy Unicorn took up the cry "Bundy" says he "you're wrong, I'm sure"
Bundy gave him a belt in the gob and left him sprawling on the floor
Then the war did soon engage, t'was hand to hand and man to man
Militia law was all the rage and a row and a ruction soon began.

Whack fol the dah now dance to yer partner around the floor yer trotters shake
Wasn't it the truth I told you? Lots of kooks at Finicum's Wake.