.How do you know? We can't tell exactly when the shots were fired, they could have shot him first and he was reaching to a wound.
So? He didn't have a gun in his hand when he was killed and at that point was not a threat. If he got the gun out and pointed it at the FBI, it would justifiable. Reaching in the same direction as a gun is not a green light to kill someone..
Mr. Finicum, 54, was killed Tuesday by Oregon State Police troopers, said Greg Bretzing, the special agent in charge for the F.B.I in Oregon, after he tried to run through a police barricade on a wooded road, then climbed from his truck and, Mr. Bretzing said, reached for a weapon in his jacket pocket.
In the video, Mr. Finicum is shown with his hands raised at one point, but Mr. Bretzing said it also showed him reaching for a weapon.
“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 mm semiautomatic handgun in that pocket,” Mr. Bretzing said.
So? He didn't have a gun in his hand when he was killed and at that point was not a threat. If he got the gun out and pointed it at the FBI, it would justifiable. Reaching in the same direction as a gun is not a green light to kill someone.
There was an incident on the Las Vegas Strip a few days ago when a man was walking up and down the Strip pointing a gun at people. The cops there didn't shoot at him, despite having a gun in his hand at all times, until after he was told to put the gun down and he pointed it at officers.
Do you have any proof he wanted the cops to kill him? From the time he put his hands down to the time he fell in the snow was about 5 seconds, more than enough time to get a gun if he really wanted to be killed. You're just assuming he wanted to die since you so badly wanted him killed. Secondly, did they even know he had a gun? Third, if I ever go to a cop and say shoot me, that doesn't give them the right to, just as if a girl walks down the street singing the chorus to Rape Me by Nirvana, that doesn't give anyone the right to actually do it.Suicide by cop.....Too bad he didn't value his life and his family as much as the ego trip militia drama.....He got want he wanted, he said he would rather die than go to jail.....Next time stop at the road block instead of plowing through 2 feet of snow and getting out and acting like your above the law.