FBI footage shows Oregon occupier killed by police
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released footage of police shooting dead a protester occupying a wildlife refuge in the US State of Oregon.
The FBI released video Thursday of state police officers fatally shooting one of the armed Oregon protesters who took over the remote wildlife refuge as a sign of protest against government land-grabbing and over-reaching.
Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, 56, died Tuesday during the arrest of occupation ringleader Ammon Bundy and four others during a traffic stop near the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, according to USA Today.
His death was captured on video taken from an FBI plane that shot footage as Finicum, driving a white truck, was pursued and ultimately confronted and killed by Oregon State Police officers.
Supporters of the armed protesters who took over the refuge said Finicum, a rancher from Arizona who came to Oregon to support the protesters, was gunned down in cold blood.
Some posts on social media have called his death an anti-government rallying cry.
The occupation began when leader Ammon Bundy and at least a dozen of his followers took over a small cluster of buildings at the refuge on January 2 in a flare-up in the so-called Sagebrush Rebellion, a decades-old conflict over federal control of millions of acres in the West.
Police and federal agents kept their distance from the site, 30 miles (48 km) from the small town of Burns in Oregon's rural southeast, in an effort to avoid a violent confrontation.
But on Tuesday, Bundy and his leadership team left the refuge to speak at a community meeting in John Day, Oregon, and were stopped by law enforcement. The stop led to Finicum's fatal shooting and the arrest of Bundy along with four others.
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