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Had no idea this was being looked into. Apparently, there was some question about bullet holes found in the truck after Finicum was shot. All of the rounds fired by Oregon State Police were accounted for, and none of them made the hole in truck. An FBI HRT agent has been charged with obstruction for lying about firing during that confrontation.
Investigators have said there was no question about the justification for OSP troopers firing at Finicum. But the FBI agent apparently fired as soon as Finicum got out of the truck before there was any real threat.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-fbi-oregon-shooting-20170628-story.html
The cynic in me will avoid any suggestion that FBI HRT agents are trigger-happy.
Had no idea this was being looked into. Apparently, there was some question about bullet holes found in the truck after Finicum was shot. All of the rounds fired by Oregon State Police were accounted for, and none of them made the hole in truck. An FBI HRT agent has been charged with obstruction for lying about firing during that confrontation.
Investigators have said there was no question about the justification for OSP troopers firing at Finicum. But the FBI agent apparently fired as soon as Finicum got out of the truck before there was any real threat.
All of the troopers’ shots were deemed justifiable, “and, in fact, necessary,” Malheur County Dist. Atty. Dan Norris said last year after reviewing the shooting.
But investigators were concerned that they could not account for the shots apparently fired by an FBI agent that missed Finicum and left a bullet hole in the roof of his truck. In a video taken by one of the passengers inside Finicum’s truck, an apparent shot can be seen hitting the roof of the vehicle and striking a window a moment after Finicum left the truck and had his arms lifted in the air.
“Of particular concern to all of us is that the FBI operators did not disclose their shots to our investigators, nor did they disclose specific actions they took after the shooting,” Deschutes County Sheriff L. Shane Nelson said at a news conference in March, without specifying to which actions he was referring.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-fbi-oregon-shooting-20170628-story.html
The cynic in me will avoid any suggestion that FBI HRT agents are trigger-happy.