Whats going on in Oregon?

Nope, if that guy wanted to keep breathing all he had to do was jump face down in the snow. He declared that it was going to be a gunfight ealirer when he said, i'm paraphrasing, "i'm going up the road, you're gonna have to shoot me to stop me".

 

There was a gunfight?

 

Thanks to the quick action of law enforcement, nope.

 

Agree. There was a whole lot of stupid in that video. If he wanted to live, then he shouldn't have run and just got out of the truck to begin with. Sometimes stupid hurts and sometimes it kills...this was the latter.

 

Hmm, they setup a roadblock in a blind corner and then claimed that the driver tried to ram the roadblock and that is why they felt their lives were in danger?

Im questioning their decision to set that road block up where they did. That position contributed to the overall end results in a negative way.

 

Exactly, he came around the corner, saw the road blocked, applied the brakes and steered further to the left to try to not hit the vehicles in the roadblock. He was traveling at a high rate of speed which added to the poor decision of the cops to setup that road block where they did.

Im not saying one side or the other were justified in their actions, Im just saying I can see flaws in where the roadblock was placed and how it contributed to the actions of all involved.

 

When does the civil rights violation investigation begin?

 

Right after Hillary gets arrested?

 

So you know exactly how fast he was traveling, and how long it would take him to brake, all the while knowing how much pressure he applied to the brake, on snow/ice covered roads just from that video? How about no.

 

"traveling", did you do that on purpose? lol

 

You're a forensics savant! There's slush all over the road. If there's snow, there's no possible way there could be ice right? A vehicle doesn't stop as rapidly when it's sliding does it?

Here's a fact, you have no idea how hard he was braking, nor the exact condition conditions of the road or exactly how fast he was traveling. Try again rain man.

 

Watching the video again, accompanied by the audio and video taken in the vehicle, does not change my opinion much except it reinforces my opinion that the people in the vehicle are/were nothing more than semi-ignorant bumpkins that decided to thumb their noses at law enforcement. It really doesn't matter whether or not they thought they had the right to do it but rather what matters is that someone does not have the right to thumb their nose at law enforcement in the first place. The man that was shot indicated early on that he intended to confront LE and to hell with the results of his actions. Maybe he felt that, with all those extra people in the truck with him, there was strength in numbers. I don't know. It turns out that he was as dumb as a bag of rocks. I have no sympathy.

 

Claim: Finicum had no chance to stop when encountering the roadblock, forcing him to drive off the road to avoid a collision.

Investigation: Investigators calculated Finicum had 862 feet – nearly the length of three football fields – to stop once he saw the roadblock. A state police van chasing him did manage to stop. Investigators experimented twice, replicating Finicum's estimated speed, and concluded he could have stopped.