Investigation into LaVoy Finicum shooting stuns justice community!

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The investigation of the LaVoy Finicum shooting by FBI has stunned the justice community.

An officer knows that with each bullet fired, there has to be a record of why it was fired. This is a part of every officer's training.

There were two shots fired at LaVoy Finicum with no record, and it has stunned the justice community.

I am wondering where it will go now, after the investigation into the FBI agents?

Will this help free some of the Patriots recently arrested by the government?

link:"Here you have one of the best trained units in the FBI. They're only supposed to shoot when there's an active threat. You would hope they would be accurate in doing so,'' said Michael German, a 16-year veteran of the FBI who now serves as a national security expert and fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice in New York University's School of Law.

State police troopers fatally shot Finicum moments later when he reached for gun in his pocket, according to the FBI and investigators led by the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office. Finicum was one of the top spokesmen for the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, a bird sanctuary 30 miles southeast of Burns.

Investigations are now underway to sort out what happened with the FBI shots. A special agent from the U.S. Department of Justice's Inspector General's Office, the FBI's Inspections Division and the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office are all examining whether the shots were justified and the reported failure to disclose them. Four other FBI Hostage Rescue Team agents are also under investigation.

"In the FBI, the most important thing is to tell the truth,'' said Danny Coulson, who served as special agent in charge of the FBI in Oregon from 1988 to 1991 before becoming the agency's deputy assistant director in charge of terrorism operations. Coulson was the first commander of the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team and was a deputy FBI director during the bloody 1992 shootout in Ruby Ridge, Idaho. He now runs a security consulting business in Texas.

An agent who doesn't report a shooting could face anything from serious discipline to demotion to a criminal charge, depending on what an investigation finds.