re: #262 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

You could do a frame by frame analysis of the video from the time he exits the truck to the time he’s down on the ground, and no matter what facts you present, they will stick to their story that Finicum was gunned down by Teh Ebil Fedz.

I watched it with the sound off. I see Finicum exit the truck with his hands in the air. He stumbles around in the snow, still with hands up. Meanwhile, an LEO approaches from the woods. Then Finicum, still stumbling around, reaches down to his pocket — something no one should ever do when several LEOs are pointing guns at you — fumbles trying to get whatever is in the pocket out, and BANG! He’s down.

It’s not clear who shot him. The LEO in the woods was the closest, but one of the others in front of Finicum could have taken the shot.

I agree. And when you watch the video, as they come up on the barricade and then hit the snow, they almost hit one of the LEO’s. I’ve got a pretty high standard for police related shootings, but this one sure passes the “looks OK to me” standard.

When they made that run at the barricade after being stopped, that’s assault with a deadly weapon IIRC.

RBS