The FBI has reported that FBI agents and Oregon state troopers carried out a traffic stop involving Ammon Bundy and some of his followers as they were driving into town in two trucks. Bundy and four others were arrested at the scene. Shots were fired, and LaVoy Finicum was killed; Ammon's brother Ryan Bundy was wounded. Two other militiamen were later also arrested in the town of Burns.
Apparently the law enforcement agents came with the purposes of arresting them on charges of conspiracy to impede federal officials from discharging their duties. It was smart planning to arrest them outside, rather than at the refuge where they could barricade and shoot it out.
Oregon's Gov. Kate Brown had said she was "fed up with" the occupation; and she had been calling on the federal government enforce the law and end the occupation. An FBI spokesman said that all the men had cooperated except the two who were shot. It has not been revealed who fired first; but Finicum had previously told NBC News that he would rather be killed than arrested. "I have no intention of spending any of my days in a concrete box [jail]."
Ralph
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