January 27,
2016 "Information
Clearing House"
- "Raw
Story" -
LaVoy Finicum
— the Oregon militant who
gained fame for conducting a television
interview from beneath a blue tarp — was shot and
killed by law enforcement officers.
The Arizona
rancher, who was caring for 11 foster children with
his wife, vowed at the start of the occupation of
the Malheur National Wildlife Preserve that he was
willing to die for his interpretation of the U.S.
Constitution.
“I have
been raised in the country all my life,”
Finicum said in a widely viewed television
interview with a rifle on his lap. “I love dearly to
feel the wind on my face. To see the sun rise, to
see the moon. I have no intention of spending any of
my days in a concrete box.”
He was
reportedly shot Tuesday evening during a shootout
when law enforcement officers stopped a group of
militants on their way to
establish a shadow government in nearby Grant
County.
State Rep.
Michele Fiore (R), who is close to the Bundy family
and other militants, has identified Finicum as the
militant who has been reportedly killed.
Six others
— including Ammon and Ryan Bundy — were arrested
following the shootout.
Reports
indicate that one other person might have been
wounded in the gunfire.
Watch
the interview with Finicum posted online by
MSNBC:
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