Trib: Bundy capture took too long
The FBI and Oregon State Police finally caught up with Ammon and Ryan Bundy. More than three weeks after they led an armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge outside Burns, Ore., law enforcement stopped the Bundy gang as it was driving to attend a meeting at the John Day Senior Center. One member of that group, LaVoy Finicum, was shot and killed - reportedly as he was reaching for a handgun. Which has to make you wonder: Why did it take three weeks?
Would police give a tax protester three weeks to occupy the local Internal Revenue Service outlet? Would anybody allow anti-war activists to seize a college campus ROTC building and remain there for 25 days? How would people react if a bunch of left-of-center agitators refused to leave a Commerce department office until Congress reformed Wall Street regulations? Or if anti-nuclear demonstrators captured a Department of Energy administrative office building?/ Marty Trillhaase , Lewiston Tribune. More here .
DFO: Actually, I thought federal agents handled this well. Thoughts?
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