I hope the Finicums family know, there are those of us here in the east, who cannot physically be there, are there in our minds and hearts.....

 

Pickups and American flags: Oregon occupier hailed as a hero

 Chron ·February 5, 2016   Felicia Fonseca and Terrence Petty, Associated Press

 "My dad was murdered defending the liberties so that we may be free of bondage," said Brittney Beck, a daughter of Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, who died Jan. 26 during a confrontation with FBI agents and Oregon state troopers.

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Ben Tenney, a Kanab, Utah, resident, gives his condolences to the daughter of Arizona rancher Robert "LaVoy" Finicum outside the church where services were being held in Kanab Friday, Feb. 5, 2016. Tenney is related to Finicum's daughter by marriage. Hundreds of people packed a Mormon church in rural Utah for the viewing ceremony for the fallen spokesman of the Oregon armed standoff. Police shot and killed Finicum during a Jan. 26 traffic stop after they say he reached for a gun. His supporters called it an ambush.
Photo: Felicia Fonseca,AP  

           







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Ben Matthews, of Port Huron, Mich., awaits the funeral service for Arizona rancher Robert "LaVoy" Finicum outside a church in Kanab, Utah, on Feb. 5, 2016. Matthews says he met Finicum during a takeover of federal land in Oregon. Hundreds of people packed a Mormon church in rural Utah for the viewing ceremony for the fallen spokesman of the Oregon armed standoff. Police shot and killed Finicum during a Jan. 26 traffic stop after they say he reached for a gun. His supporters called it an ambush.
 Photo: Felicia Fonseca, AP

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Greg Whalen, of Las Vegas, walks in front of the church in Kanab, Utah, where services were being held Friday, Feb. 5, 2016, for Arizona rancher Robert "LaVoy" Finicum. Hundreds of people packed a Mormon church in rural Utah for the viewing ceremony for the fallen spokesman of the Oregon armed standoff. Police shot and killed Finicum during a Jan. 26 traffic stop after they say he reached for a gun. His supporters called it an ambush.
 Photo: Felicia Fonseca, AP

 
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FILE - This Jan. 30, 2016 file photo shows Tony Atencio of Burns, Oregon, holds a photo of rancher Robert ``LaVoy'' Finicum at a rally against in Burns, Ore. The funeral for Finicum, killed by law enforcement during the armed occupation of an Oregon wildlife refuge was expected to draw supporters Friday, Feb. 5, from around the West to a small Utah town.

KANAB, Utah (AP) — Inside a packed Mormon church in this desert town Friday, a leader of the Oregon armed standoff who died in a confrontation with authorities was called a man of conviction and not a threat to the law enforcement officers who shot him.
   Finicum's death on a remote Oregon road has become a symbol for those decrying federal oversight, on public lands in the West and elsewhere, and has led to protests of what they call an unnecessary use of force. But authorities say the 54-year-old was reaching for a gun during the confrontation.
   At the funeral, Finicum's family drew on their faith and quoted scripture in describing their father as a man of conviction and courage.
   One daughter, Thara Thenney, said her father was "defiled, mocked and eventually slain.

"He had never, not once, abandoned his trust in the Lord," she said.
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