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WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts)
Sat Jan 30, 2016, 01:17 PM Jan 2016

TYT: Militia Member Killed By Police (VIDEO)



During a traffic stop by police, militia member LaVoy Finicum fled from the scene in his truck. He crashed his vehicle to avoid a police roadblock, left his truck, and was shot dead by police. Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz, John Iadarola (ThinkTank), and Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show) hosts of The Young Turks break it down.

Based on this video, do you believe the shooting was justified? Let us know in the comments below.

Read more here: http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/01/fbi_to_release_video_footage_o.html

“As state troopers trained their guns on Robert "LaVoy" Finicum along a secluded eastern Oregon highway, he reached twice for a pocket that police say contained a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun.

That's when they fatally shot Finicum, a video released Thursday by the FBI appears to show.

The federal agency played the video in an attempt to dispel rumors about the circumstances of Finicum's death two days earlier as he and other leaders of the armed standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge were driving to a meeting.

Conflicting accounts of his shooting fueled outrage among supporters of the refuge occupiers and prompted the leader of a Northwest militia group to issue a call for members to report to Burns.”

#0 sez: "Notice how when he's on the ground & still moving they didn't shoot him 37 more times?"
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TYT: Militia Member Killed By Police (VIDEO) (Original Post) WhoIsNumberNone Jan 2016 OP
Can't go by just what's on the video for this one.... daleanime Jan 2016 #1
That is where the bullshit comparisons to kids like Tamir Rice fall completely apart. phantom power Jan 2016 #3
Exactly..... daleanime Jan 2016 #4
After those racists pledged to kill and publicized their arms, lucky they all weren't shot Hoyt Jan 2016 #2
Those weren't "sparks" from shooting the car. Those were flashbangs. Spitfire of ATJ Jan 2016 #5
"Over and over again" Madmiddle Jan 2016 #6

daleanime

(17,796 posts)
1. Can't go by just what's on the video for this one....
Sat Jan 30, 2016, 01:25 PM
Jan 2016

Last edited Sat Jan 30, 2016, 02:26 PM - Edit history (1)

these thugs (for that's what they are) had already announced to the world their intent to use armed resistance.

phantom power

(25,966 posts)
3. That is where the bullshit comparisons to kids like Tamir Rice fall completely apart.
Sat Jan 30, 2016, 01:58 PM
Jan 2016

This wasn't some random kid in a store with a toy gun. It was a grown man. With real guns. Who had very publicly announced his willingness to defend himself by shooting law enforcement, if he decided that was the thing to do.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
2. After those racists pledged to kill and publicized their arms, lucky they all weren't shot
Sat Jan 30, 2016, 01:58 PM
Jan 2016

100 times while in their truck.

 

Madmiddle

(459 posts)
6. "Over and over again"
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 11:48 AM
Jan 2016

All that is heard is that these people are thugs, terrorists. Ranchers occupied a building. The building they occupied was empty of any human life. The ranchers harmed no one. They, in their minds, thought and think, they are doing the right thing. There's no rule book for fighting for what you believe. The "So Called Justice" we are seeing is not the America perceived by the rest of the world. It's not the America most of us here believe in either!

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