John R. Houk
© April 30, 2016
I came across a video interview of a lady protestor in
Burbank California protesting the murder of LaVoy Finicum in late January 2016.
The method of the interview was the Mark Connors Show. You hear the audio of
Connors – I believe – communicating to the lady via an onsite correspondent who
seemingly relays Connors’ questions from what is heard in the correspondent’s
ear bud. It is quite emotional!
Sadly, on my part, I moved on after reading about the
Bundys, other ranch protest leaders of the Mahleur National Wildlife Refuge
near Burns and pro-protester Youtube investigator Pete Santili being arrested
by Oregon State Police and the FBI. I knew the railroad of the Justice system
was about to commence. Normal Conservative outlets that were covering the standoff
in Oregon also moved on so it was a bit of out-of-sight/out-of-mind for me.
The emotion of the protestor brought back a flood of
memories about this government injustice toward American citizens making a
living from the land even after government appropriation of that land.
The lady interviewed in this video is absolutely correct. My
fellow Americans, don't believe everything the government tells you AND
especially from an Obama Administration led government.
Before cross posting the emotional video of a California
protestor I need to revisit Finicum’s murder by State and Federal authorities.
Officially Finicum’s shooting was ruled justified rather
than homicide. And you got to know there are many Conservatives that have
swallowed the justified shooting ruling hook, line and sinker. You may have
even seen commentary and transcripts of police vs. Finicum verbal exchanges
leading up to Finicum being shot to death.
The thing is someone inside the same truck Finicum was in
wisely took a cell phone video of the police vs. Finicum verbal exchange. If
you listen to the cell phone video and line it up with the FBI released video,
you will get a vastly different perspective of the Official account given by
authorities.
So this is what I’m going to do. I’m going to cross post an
article posted at Fellowship
of the Minds. The Fellowship
of the Minds first places the case of the Official account and follows it
with the cell phone video which is simultaneously lined up with the FBI
released video. It is quite enlightening and I pray you are not too stubborn to
understand the truth.
Following the Fellowship
of the Minds post I’ll cross post the G+
Constitutionalist Group of the lady emotionally protesting the murder of
LaVoy Finicum.
JRH 4/30/16
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Police shot Oregon protester Lavoy Finicum 3 times
in back
By Dr. Eowyn
March 10, 2016
Last December, Ammon Bundy and armed militia members
gathered in Burns, Oregon (about 280 miles southeast of Portland), to protest
the jailing of local ranchers, father and son Dwight and Steven
Hammond, for lighting fires on federal properties in 2001 and 2006 in
order to scale back invasive plants and to protect their private lands from
wildfires. (Ammon is the son of Nevada rancher Clive Bundy who had an armed
standoff with federal authorities in 2014 over grazing rights. That matter
was settled peacefully, after the Bureau of Land Management backed off and left
the scene.)
After a peaceful rally in Burns, Ammon Bundy and the militia
protesters took over a facility at the Mahleur National Wildlife Refuge near
Burns.
On January 27, 2016, the feds put an end to the
standoff by shooting dead Robert “LaVoy” Finicum multiple times at
close range, and arresting other protesters, including:
o
Ammon Bundy, Ryan Bundy, Brian Cavalier, Shawna
Cox and Ryan Waylen Payne, who were arrested at a traffic stop on their way
from Burns, Oregon, to a community meeting with ranchers in John Day, Oregon.
o
Joseph Donald O’Shaughnessy (Captain O.) and
Peter Santilli, who were arrested in Burns.
o
Jon Ritzheimer reportedly turned himself into
police in Peoria, Arizona.
Yesterday, March 9, 2016, county prosecutors ruled
the killing of Finicum “justified and necessary” despite the fact he had been
shot three times in the back.
Below is a tweet, by RT anchor/correspondent
Simone del Rosario, of an autopsy report’s sketch showing three gun wounds
on Finicum’s back:
Here are excerpts from Les Zeitz’s report for The Oregonian/Oregon Live of
the dramatic events that led to Finicum’s death:
As Robert “Lavoy” Finicum
powered his Dodge pickup over Devine Summit on the state highway north of
Burns, he spotted the police van idling on a U.S. Forest Service road.
Finicum glanced over at the
state trooper in the driver’s seat as he went past.
He pointed a finger at him, as
if to say “I see you” and kept going.
That likely was the moment
Finicum realized he and his group wouldn’t make the community meeting planned
that evening in John Day.
Less than 30 minutes later,
Finicum was dead and four other leaders of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
takeover were in handcuffs.
Police knew the leaders
planned to travel to John Day in Grant County to the north on the only direct
highway there – U.S. 395.
They devised a traffic stop
by state troopers to allow FBI agents to arrest the group on federal conspiracy
charges. By midday, some members of the arresting team
positioned themselves on Forest Service Road 2820, which branches east off the
state highway toward a snow park near the summit of Devine Ridge. Another
team set up roughly two miles north on the highway, prepared to act as a
roadblock.
“The sheriff is waiting for us,” Finicum yelled
out the driver’s window to the officers and agents staged behind his truck.
He puts his hands out
the window and invited police to shoot.
“Back down or you kill me
now,” he said.
He repeated twice more that he
was going to meet the sheriff.
Ryan Bundy, 43, of
Mesquite, Nevada, seated behind Finicum with a .38-caliber pistol and two
rifles within reach, yelled out the window: “Who are you?”
Finicum echoed him. “Yeah,
who are you?”
“Oregon State Police” came the
reply.
“I’m going over to meet the
sheriff in Grant County,” Finicum said.
Police continued demanding
Finicum turn off the truck and surrender, according to officer
statements to investigators. But they didn’t move against those in the truck as
they waited for a trooper posted at McConnell’s Jeep to bring a launcher with
multiple pepper spray rounds.
Those in the truck talked about
what to do next.
“If we duck and you drive, what
are they going to do?” [Shannon] Cox asked Finicum. “Try to
knock us out?”
He noted they still had “50 ass
miles” to go to reach John Day. He turned up the volume on country music that
had been playing on the radio
.
“Who can we call?” Bundy asked.
“Sheriff Palmer,” Finicum
responded.
As Bundy and Cox tried to get a
cell signal, Finicum continued yelling at police.
“You want a blood bath?” he
asked. “I’m going to be laying down here on the ground with my blood on
the street or I’m going to see the sheriff.
[…] Finicum instantly stepped
out of the truck, his hands out to his sides at about shoulder height. Investigators
concluded that an FBI agent on the highway clipped off two shots, one
that went wild and one that pierced the truck roof and shattered the left rear
passenger window. A shell fragment struck Bundy in the shoulder.
The trooper who
had made it to the tree line had drawn his revolver and now commanded
Finicum to get on the ground.
“Go ahead and shoot me,”
Finicum said.
“Get on the ground,” the
trooper yelled back.
Finicum continued yelling
“Shoot me” and “You’re going to have to shoot me.”
He turned his attention from the
trooper in the woods to two troopers coming up behind him, including the one
who had fired at the truck. As Finicum shifted direction, the trooper in the
woods holstered his gun and drew out his Taser X2, which can be effective from
25 feet but works best at about 15 feet.
Finicum at least twice
reached with his right hand toward the inside of his left jacket, where he had
a loaded Ruger SR9 semi-automatic pistol that had been a gift
from his stepson.
He then turned back toward the
trooper approaching with the Taser. He again reached for his jacket.
“It was consistent with
drawing a handgun,” the trooper with the Taser told investigators. “He’s going
for a gun and I can tell you right now, uh, I was very
uncomfortable.”
He continued ordering Finicum
to stop.
“He had the drop on me at this
point,” the trooper said.
One of the troopers who
had been coming up behind Finicum saw the same motion – “consistent
with grabbing a firearm” is how he described it to investigators.
“I need to take action to stop
him from being a threat” to the trooper with the Taser, he later told investigators.
He fired two rounds, both
striking Finicum in the back. At the same instant, another trooper nearby fired
a single round into Finicum’s back.
[…] Fifty seconds after
Finicum left his truck, the shooting was over.”
You can hear and see Finicum
yelling to the police in the video below of cell phone footage from inside
Finicum’s truck (lower left corner) synced with aerial footage taken by the
FBI. Finicum was in the driver’s seat, while Ryan Bundy, Victoria Sharp and
Shauna Cox were in the back seat.
Posted by The Oregonian
Published on Mar 8, 2016
In a video shown at a Deschutes
County Sheriff’s Office press conference today, the aerial FBI video of the
LaVoy Finicum shooting has been synced with a cellphone video Shawna Cox
recorded from within Finicum’s truck.
Do you think Finicum had goaded police to shoot him? Was
shooting him in the back justified? How could the police have de-escalated the
situation?
H/t ZeroHedge
~Eowyn
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[Blog Editor: Below
is the passionate interview with the Burbank California protestor I found on
the G+ Constitutionalist Group.
Please take note that even though the audio is similar to the previous post’s
official version, the intonation gives an entirely different perspective. The
government lied! The witness accounts are the truth!]
The Real Deal!!! #LAYVOY # Oregon
An American Awakening!!
Posted by James D.
Published on Apr 28,
2016
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Another Perspective of LaVoy Finicum Murder
John R. Houk
© April 30, 2016
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Police shot Oregon protester Lavoy Finicum 3 times
in back
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