KANAB, Utah — 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.
“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.
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