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erpowers

(9,350 posts)
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 06:46 PM Mar 2016

Cellphone Video of the Levoy Finicum Shooting

I understand some may not want to see this video, but I think it is worth posting on this website so people can see the video if they want to see the video.

I think it is ridiculous that Finicum and the rest are getting support from people on youtube. If a group of black people had done the same thing most of the people supporting Fincium et. al would most likely say the black people caused their own death(s). Remember when black people get arrested, assaulted, and/or killed after arguing with the police right wingers claim the black person(s) should have just followed the orders of the police even if they believed the orders were unlawful. How many of them argued that Sandra Bland should have just gotten out of her car when ordered to do so? How many of them have said that black men should just stop resisting arrest? Not only did Levoy Finicum refuse to get out of his vehicle, he, on multiple occasions, called for law enforcement to kill him. He was also armed and police say he was reaching for his weapon. Based on the overhead video that was released when Finicum was shot it did look like Finicum was reaching for something in his jacket.

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W T F

(1,146 posts)
1. I'll just respond with he same line that racists say when unarmed people of color get shot by.......
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 07:09 PM
Mar 2016

Law enforcement.........."Dont break the law, and you wont get shot"

turbinetree

(24,685 posts)
3. He made his bed...................and the rest of that gang of terrorist.............
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 07:19 PM
Mar 2016

the authorities knew he and them were / was armed, they are not going to stand there and say pretty f*******ing please-------------and for people too support a criminal, then they are just has much complicit in this acts of criminality.

I have no pity for people that destroyed Indigenous People artifacts------------------none.

Some of the Indigenous People in this country cannot even get back the bones of there ancestors, so that they can be buried with respect from and for the tribe of the culture, because they being studied for research--------------------------really, research


This idea that this jerk and his "team" of terrorists thought that they could bring forth a complaint of justification to commit a crime, and break the law------is absolute BS

 

packman

(16,296 posts)
5. Well, he did give them permission to shoot him
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 08:24 PM
Mar 2016

"Go ahead, shoot me" - What an arrogant prick, telling law officers what he is going to do. Brave assholes, these are the people who swore they would shoot law officers, yet when the shoe is on the other foot...

Delver Rootnose

(250 posts)
6. Any person of color ....
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 08:32 PM
Mar 2016

...pulls away like that the vehicle would have been riddled with bullets and the survivors charged with attempted murder of a law officer.

 

Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts)
7. This video will inspire a whole new generation of armed right wing militants
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 09:23 PM
Mar 2016

It's nothing to celebrate or gloat about. I don't understand why the cops let it end this way after letting them occupy the bird park for weeks. Now the guy is a martyr. Which is clearly what he wanted.

Jeb Bartlet

(141 posts)
8. He fled police,
Thu Mar 10, 2016, 12:38 AM
Mar 2016

he ran a road block, he ignored orders to get on the ground, he reached for a gun he had in his pocket, he died, he got what he deserved.

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