Video shows Oregon activist being shot
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The FBI has released a video showing Oregon state police shooting dead one of the armed protesters who took over a wildlife refuge in a three-week occupation involving ranchers angry over land-management policies.
The video release on Thursday came after protest leader Ammon Bundy repeated a call for the last four holdouts to peacefully leave the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge to avoid more bloodshed.
Eleven people including Bundy have been arrested since Tuesday, when Robert “LaVoy” Finicum — the movement’s de facto spokesman — was shot dead near the town of Burns in a bloody twist to the drawn-out standoff with the federal government.
Greg Bretzing, of the FBI’s Portland office, said they were releasing footage of the fatal incident to clear up what he called inaccurate and inflammatory accounts of what unfolded.
The video was shot from an FBI plane overlooking a highway on which two vehicles, one of which Finicum was driving, were traveling.
Bretzing told a media conference: “We realize that viewing that piece of the video will be upsetting to some people, but we feel that it is necessary to show the whole thing unedited in the interest of transparency.”
The footage shows FBI and police vehicles pull up behind a jeep, which stops, and three people — including Bundy — get out “without incident.” Bundy was arrested.
The second vehicle, Finicum’s white truck, carries on with officials in pursuit.
A few minutes later one man gets out and gives himself up, but Finicum refuses to surrender and drives off again at speed and approaches a roadblock, before swerving, nearly hitting an FBI agent and getting stuck in a snowbank.
“Finicum leaves the truck and steps through the snow. Agents and troopers on scene had information that Finicum and others would be armed,” said Bretzing.
“On at least two occasions, Finicum reaches his right hand toward a pocket on the left inside portion of his jacket. He did have a loaded 9-millimeter semi-automatic handgun in that pocket. At this time, troopers shot Finicum.”
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