A false report about the showdown between the Bundy gang and federal authorities circulated rapidly on social media, kicked off by this tweet from Las Vegas Assemblywoman Michele Fiore; grotesquely, they were clearly trying to co-opt the Black Lives Matter theme of “hands up:”

My heart & prays go out to LaVoy Finicum’s family he was just murdered with his hands up in Burns OR.Ryan Bundy has been shot in the arm

— Michele Fiore (@VoteFiore) January 27, 2016

But today one of the drivers of the vehicles carrying the Bundys and their accomplices has come forward to tell a very different story: Robert ‘LaVoy’ Finicum shot and killed while charging police, driver says.

BURNS – Robert “LaVoy” Finicum, the spokesman of the refuge occupation, was shot and killed after he charged police during a roadside stop north of Burns on Tuesday, according to a man on Facebook who claims to be the driver of one of two vehicles involved in the highway shooting.

Mark McConnell posted a video to Facebook Wednesday morning, recounting the Tuesday afternoon scene that led to Finicum’s death and the subsequent arrest of eight people involved in the Jan. 2 takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

Here’s that video:

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