I wonder how the moderation is here? The Oregonian has to have the most discriminatory moderation against truth, freedom, human and civil rights that I've seen in a US news outlet. It's extremely one sided with no opportunity for people supporting the ranchers human and civil rights and against government corruption and crime to express their views in the same manner as those supporting police killing and torture that the Oregonian caters to. Who are extremely rude and obnoxious.

Regardless of where you stand on the constitutional issues, the people at the traffic stop and road block could have been arrested without any munitions use. Shooting a 40 mm round at Ryan Payne at the traffic stop was unnecessary. The road block was set up to force the rancher's truck into the snow bank to stop it, and that's what LE expected and that's what happened. This could have been handled peacefully. It was LE that escalated the incident into violence and death unnecessarily.