OSP Officer Regretted Grabbing Taser During Finicum Shooting
by Amanda Peacher OPB
March 14, 2016 7:15 p.m. | Updated: March 15, 2016 6:08 a.m.
... During the Jan. 26 confrontation on Highway 395 between Burns and John Day, one OSP officer initially pointed a handgun at Finicum, but then switched to a Taser when the militant turned away ...
“I’m looking at Finicum. I’m messing with that stupid Taser,” the officer said. “He was moving something out of the way and the other hand was moving in — in a movement that was to me, it just looked familiar. It was consistent with drawing a handgun.”
The officer went on to describe the moments before Finicum was shot as “terrifying.”
“To be perfectly blunt,” the officer said, “he had the drop on me at this point” ...
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