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Captured shot of roadblock from released FBI video. It shows Finicum
(green circle) just after being allegedly shot with foam bullet by FBI agent
(red circle) fleeing to hide his or her involvement in order to create the
perception that Finicum was going for his gun instead of involuntarily reacting to reach for the foam bullet wound. FBI agent in orange circle shot and killed Finicum seconds later after the foam bullet shooter was hidden behind one of the blockade vehicles. See forensic video.. |
It’s been awhile since I have posted on my blog. I have been
working on the Democrat AGs’ efforts to deny so-called “climate deniers” of
their Constitutional rights by bringing RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
Organizations) charges against them. The results will be a feature article in Range magazine in early November. Then I
was asked to provide expert testimony in the United States v Ammon Bundy, et
al. so-called criminal case in which Bundy and others were alleged to illegally
occupy the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Harney County Oregon. During
this time LaVoy Finicum was killed by the FBI. I recommend the reader view a thought
provoking video revealing forensic evidence that Finicum’s death may have
actually been planned by the FBI.
Michael Coffman, Ph.D.
Background of the Hammond Arrests and Prison Sentencing
After suffering decades on unbelievable abuse by the federal
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS),
Dwight (father) and Steven (son) Hammond were charged with terrorism by arson
in 2011 under the 1996 Antiterrorism Act. The reason: setting a backfire to
protect their home and winter range for their cattle from being destroyed by
fires started by lightning strikes, and the customary burning of grass to
stimulate its growth—a custom going back hundreds of years. In June, 2012, they
were convicted. Dwight was sentenced for three months and Steven a year in
prison.
After being released, the BLM filed a court case in pure
vindictiveness, demanding that these “terrorists” serve the full five years minimum
prison terms. The Hammonds are both back in federal prison. (For more on this
unbelievable story, click here)
Seeing this injustice, Ammon Bundy, LaVoy Finicum and a group of his colleagues
traveled to and occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in support of the
Hammonds. That’s where I pick up the story that I summarize below.
Summary of the Occupancy Timeline of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
On January 2, 2016 armed individuals took possession of the
headquarters Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Harney County Oregon allegedly
led by Ammon Bundy. Bundy repeatedly stated that the purpose of the occupation
was to help the Hammonds by establishing Adverse Possession of the Refuge.
Adverse possession occurs when an individual or a group occupies property
allegedly belonging to others, claiming that the property belongs to the
occupying group or individual. Most readers will probably believe that this
must be illegal. It is not. Literally multiple dozens of court cases affirm
that it is legal. More on this in my next blog. (To read a comprehensive
discussion of this and other legal arguments of the Bundy case, read the White
Paper written by Dr. Angus McIntosh and myself (here)[1]
that is now in evidence in the trial.)
Again, dozens of court cases affirmed that all the federal
government had to do was to file a claim in civil court and show evidence of
their ownership. Once their legal ownership was established, Ammon and crew
would have had to abandon their claim of adverse possession and leave the
refuge peacefully. That is not what the federal government did, however.
Instead, in an apparent effort to establish their absolute authority, they
brought in armed federal and hired agents to intimidate and force Bundy’s group
into submission. Like Ruby Ridge and Waco, that action resulted in tragedy.
On January 26 Robert "LaVoy" Finicum was shot and
killed while allegedly avoiding arrest by the Oregon State Police and the
Federal Bureau of Investigation. Finicum and others were traveling to attend a
public meeting with the sheriff in a neighboring county when roadblocks forced
their vehicle off the road into deep snow. This was all videotaped with no
sound by the FBI from a helicopter. Law enforcement claims Finicum, who was
leaving his car and traversing snow up to his knees with hands up, was charging
the FBI and State Police while reaching for a handgun in his jacket. He was then
shot three times and killed by an unnamed agent.
A later federal investigation found the shooting was
justified. However, unknown by the FBI and State Police at the time, a separate
video with sound was being taken inside the crew cab pickup. When the two
videos were synchronized, it allowed a separate detailed but anonymous forensic
analysis that provides compelling evidence that the FBI actually murdered
Finicum. The forensic evidence showed that the FBI and State Police actually
set up the roadblock for the sole purpose of forcing Finicum to appear to
charge the FBI, thereby justifying their murdering him. This stunning forensic
analysis of the videos can be viewed here.[2] Is
this forensic analysis correct? It seems to be.
Without the forensic analysis the sequence of events seem to
be disjointed, even chaotic. With the step by step forensic evidence it showed
a pre-planned, well-coordinated strategy to set up and murder not only LaVoy
but everyone in the pickup. What was disjointed before comes into sharp focus in
the forensic analysis. After viewing the forensic evidence, former Washington
DC prosecuting attorney, Fred Kelly Grant wrote “AS AN OLD, CURMUDEONLY, DISTRUSTING
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY I WOULD CHARGE THAT LAVOY FINICUM WAS MURDERED IN THE
FIRST DEGREE WITH PREMEDITATION AND DELIBERATION. (Emphasis original) Grant
went on to say “On the basis of the video, as a prosecutor, I
would file first degree, premeditated murder charges against officers who shot
the deadly shots and at least accomplice before the fact against the officer
who fired the foam bullet that caused Finicum to put his hands to the left of
his chest.” Fred
Kelly Grant is a personal friend of this author’s and I have never heard him
exaggerate. The evidence is that compelling.
