None of us should ever rest in peace while authorities get away with calling incidents where ranchers, with whom they have ongoing disputes, cut down in a blaze of bullets, “routine traffic stops”.
..LaVoy Finicum was only one rancher, a citizen trying to eke out a living in a livelihood the government is making all but impossible with the smothering red tape of bureaucracy. And that’s why his death that came as he was standing knee-high in the Oregon snow is all the more unforgettably tragic.
“After being shot down in cold blood—as he was clearly signalling to armed federal agents and Oregon state police that he posed no threat—his body was left to lay in the snow. The passengers traveling with him on the way to a meeting with Sheriff Palmer, left traumatized in shock in a vehicle authorities shot up like a scene out of a B-grade Hollywood movie, the authorities initially never even bothered to cover his body with a blanket.”
In life LaVoy Finicum—like many ranchers—was plagued by the ongoing harassment by the agents of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). LaVoy Finicum got about as much respect in death as one of his own cattle.