The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released photographs from the scene of the month-long standoff at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, showing that the armed occupiers, who claimed to be acting on behalf of the citizenry, to protect their land from federal overreach, left the place a godforsaken mess.
The indictment against the last defendant charged in the armed occupation earlier this year of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge was unsealed yesterday. As of Tuesday afternoon, Jake Ryan, of Plains, Montana, was one of two defendants (out of 26) still at large—the other is Travis Cox.
On Wednesday, prosecutors unveiled new charges against 19 of the 25 defendants indicted in connection with the Malheur wildlife refuge occupation. Some of those accused could face more than 20 years in prison if convicted on all charges and given the maximum sentence for each.
On Tuesday, investigators concluded that Oregon State Police officers acted appropriately in the January 26 shooting death of armed Malheur wildlife refuge occupier LaVoy Finicum. According to the New York Times, however, FBI agents are being investigated for not disclosing the fact that they also fired upon Finicum.
If you can no longer gain national attention for your cause by illegally seizing a bird refuge and filling its environs with your poop, you might as well do this, I guess.
The Oregon militia standoff continues, technically, as four people continue to occupy the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. But despite their best efforts, helpfully documented in a series of idiotic YouTube videos, no one—not even the FBI—really cares anymore.
On Thursday, the FBI released aerial footage of LaVoy Finicum’s shooting death on Tuesday. An airplane was following the joint FBI-Oregon State Police operation, during which Ammon Bundy and others were peacefully taken into custody.
Police say the shootout that killed Oregon militia spokesman Robert “LaVoy” Finicum began when he crashed into a roadblock and ended when he reached for his waistband.
We’ve been hearing a lot about the self-appointed nature trail terrorists currently holed up in Burns, Oregon—mostly because they won’t shut up. But now, the employees at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge are finally speaking out about the armed militia cosplayers keeping them from doing their jobs.
