I already mocked the WaPo's willfully negligent coverage in duff's thread;
https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=75235217&f=119&p=563237266#p563237266WaPo interviewed 3 witnesses and got a statement from the federal authorities. Two witnesses and federal authorities both stated that Reinoehl pointed a gun and/or shot at police. One witness claimed he was unarmed and shot without warning
WaPo then ran ahead with a headline based solely on that minority report, with the conflicting evidence tucked deep in the article where 90% of people would never see it
Then today detectives issued
another statement in the shooting;
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/09/detectives-say-michael-reinoehl-pointed-a-handgun-at-officers-at-the-time-he-was-shot-and-killed-in-wa-state.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=oregonian_sfQuote
Michael Forest Reinoehl pointed a handgun at officers when he was shot and killed near Lacey, Washington, by members of a federal task force who moved in to arrest him on a murder warrant stemming from a fatal shooting of a Patriot Prayer supporter in Portland in late August, the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday.
Detectives said Reinoehl was armed with a .380-caliber handgun when he was killed on Sept. 3 , according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office.
Officers at the scene told investigators they saw Reinoehl point the gun at them, Thurston County Lt. Ray Brady said.
A spent shell casing of that caliber was found in Reinoehl’s station wagon, and an AR-15 style .22-caliber rifle was located in the front seat, according to the sheriff’s office. The serial number on the rifle had been removed. The sheriff’s office declined to say where the handgun was recovered.
Ballistics tests are being conducted to determine if the .380-caliber handgun that Reinoehl had that Sept. 3 night was the same gun used in the Aug. 29 fatal shooting of Aaron “Jay” Danielson, 39, on Southwest Third Avenue in Portland.
Reinoehl died at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds to the head and upper torso, according to the county coroner.
Four officers from several Washington law enforcement agencies assigned to the U.S. Marshals Pacific Northwest Violent Offender Task Force were serving the arrest warrant when they shot and killed Reinoehl.
The four officers are from the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office, Lakewood Police Department and the Washington Department of Corrections.
Thurston County Sherif’s Office is the lead agency investigating the shooting as part of Washington’s Region 3 Critical Incident Investigation Team, according to Thurston County Sheriff’s Lt. Ray Brady.
Reinoehl, a self-described anti-fascist who said he provided security for Black Lives Matter protests, was wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of Patriot Prayer supporter Aaron “Jay” Danielson, 39, on Aug. 29 shortly after a pro-Trump caravan drove through downtown Portland. Patriot Prayer is a loosely organized right-wing group based in Vancouver that has often come to Portland to clash with left-wing, antifa opponents. A .380-caliber gun was used in Danielson’s fatal shooting, police said.
The night Reinoehl was killed, the U.S. Marshals Service issued a statement that said, “Initial reports indicate the suspect produced a firearm, threatening the lives of law enforcement officers. Task force members responded to the threat and struck the suspect who was pronounced dead at the scene.”
Nathaniel Dingess, 39, who lives in the apartment complex where Reinoehl was found hiding, issued a statement days later through a lawyer, saying officers yelled no warnings or commands before firing at Reinoehl, who he said was walking toward his car holding a cellphone when officers drove up outside. Dingess said he never saw a handgun on Reinoehl or saw him reach for anything.
He pointed a handgun at them.
He may or may not have fired at them first, as one shell casing was recovered
It may be the same weapon he used in the murder
And he also had an illegally modified rifle