Quote:It's different because in your mind you wanted to make it different.  I saw a guy driving directly at a police road block and run off the road.  Immediately get out of the car and start grabbing for his jacket.  Let's not forget the threats he was making while in the car previously.  You want to somehow make him out to be a choir boy and the law enforcement should sit back and wait to be shot before firing back.  I'm sorry, but they deserve to go home to their families and defend themselves against someone that really doesn't care about them.

 

 

No, it's a fact this is different from a random cop making a traffic stop. That should be obvious for reasons I already stated.

 

Threats?  Those aren't threats he was making.  That's quite a stretch.

 

I never said these guys were innocent.  They were obviously breaking the law to an extent, but they didn't deserve to die.

 

Officers and (federal government for that matter) should be held to the same standard of law as the rest of us.  Nobody is above the law.  If at any point I agreed Finicum posed a threat to their lives, then its justified shooting.  That's not what I see.

 

Finicum never pulled out a gun and there is no undeniable proof that he was reaching for one.  Plus he was being shot at long before that happened.

 

The truck was veering around the roadblock, plus the barricade broke state laws.  They started shooting regardless.

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