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tering a roadblock.
A man identi¿ed as
Finicum gets out of the truck.
At ¿rst, he has his hands up,
but then he reaches into his
pocket and he falls into the
snow.
“On at least two occa-
sions, Finicum reaches his
right hand toward a pocket on
the left inside portion of his
jacket,” said Greg Bretzing,
special agent in charge for
the FBI in Portland.
“He did have a loaded
9mm
semi-automatic
handgun in the pocket,” he
said.
Bretzing also said Fini-
cum’s truck nearly hit an FBI
agent before it got stuck in
the snow.
“Actions have conse-
quences,” Bretzing said.
“The FBI and OSP tried to
effect these arrests peace-
fully.”
The FBI posted the video
to its YouTube channel.
With Fincium lying in the
snow, the video shows the
arrest of two other occupiers
as they got out of the stuck
truck: Ryan Bundy, who
is Ammon’s brother, and
Shawna Cox. Bretzing said
another woman was in the
truck but was not arrested.
He did not identify her.
Bretzing said agents and
troopers “provided medical
assistance to Finicum” after
they were “con¿dent that
they had addressed any
further threats.” He said that
happened about 10 minutes
after the shooting.
Two loaded .223 caliber
semi-automatic riÀes and a
loaded revolver were found
in the truck, Bretzing said.
Bretzing said that when
Finicum’s truck was ¿rst
stopped, an occupier riding
with him — Ryan Payne
— got out and surrendered.
He said troopers and agents
ordered others in the truck to
surrender but Finicum sped
off.
Bundy and his followers
were on their way to a
meeting in the community of
John Day when then encoun-
tered the FBI-led operation
to apprehend them. The FBI
acted amid growing calls that
something be done to end the
occupation, including from
Oregon’s governor.
The
Oregon
State
Medical Examiner’s Of¿ce
on Thursday con¿rmed the
person shot in the Tuesday
confrontation was Finicum, a
54-year-old Arizona rancher.
At the news conference
in Burns, Bretzing said four
occupiers are still holed up
at the wildlife refuge. “The
negotiators continue to work
around the clock to talk to
those four people in an effort
to get them to come out
peacefully,” he said.
The
occupation
by
ranchers and others began
on Jan. 2, and at one point
there were a couple of dozen
people holed up, demanding
that the federal government
turn public lands over to local
control. But the compound
has been emptying out since
the arrest of Bundy, and
10 others over the past few
days, and with the death of
Finicum.
Oregon Public Broad-
casting on Thursday spoke
with the holdouts and
identi¿ed them as David Fry,
who is from Ohio, husband
and wife Sean and Sandy
Anderson of Idaho, and Jeff
Banta of Nevada.
Ammon
Bundy
on
Thursday released a state-
ment through his attorney
repeating his call for the last
occupiers to leave peacefully:
“Turn yourselves in and do
not use physical force.”
All 11 people under arrest
have been charged with a
felony count of conspiring
to impede federal of¿cers
from carrying out their duties
through force or intimidation.
Three of the 11 were arrested
Wednesday night when they
left the refuge.
Ammon Bundy is the son
of Nevada rancher Cliven
Bundy, who was involved in
a tense 2014 standoff with
the government over grazing
rights.
The group came to the
desert of eastern Oregon in
the dead of winter to decry
what it calls onerous federal
land restrictions and to object
to the prison sentences of two
local ranchers convicted of
setting ¿res.
In a criminal complaint
Wednesday, federal authori-
ties said the armed group had
explosives and night-vision
goggles and was prepared to
¿ght.
The charges against
Bundy and others say that
the refuge’s 16 employees
have been prevented from
reporting to work because of
threats of violence.
Orange County jails teacher
arrested for helping 3 escape
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP)
— A woman who taught
English classes at a Southern
California jail was arrested
Thursday on suspicion of
helping three inmates —
including an alleged killer
— escape the lockup, and the
men are believed to be riding
around in a stolen van.
Nooshafarin Ravaghi, 44,
of Lake Forest, was arrested
nearly a week after the
men — one an alleged killer
— cut their way through
steel bars, climbed through
plumbing tunnels, made their
way to the roof, cut razor
wire and, using rope made of
braided bedsheets, rappelled
four stories to freedom
from the roof of the Orange
County Central Men’s Jail.
The escape on Jan. 22 wasn’t
noticed for 16 hours.
It was the ¿rst escape
from the maximum-security
lockup in more than 20 years.
Ravaghi was taken into
custody about an hour before
the arrest was announced
Thursday afternoon and
remained jailed. It was
unclear whether she had an
attorney.
Ravaghi had worked since
2014 as a part-time instructor
of English as a second
language in the inmate
education program operated
by the Rancho Santiago
Community College District,
the school said in a statement.
One of her students was
Hossein Nayeri, 37, the
alleged mastermind of the
escape, who was awaiting
trial on charges that he
kidnapped and tortured
a marijuana dispensary
owner — ¿nally cutting off
his penis — in a bid to learn
where he might have cached
money.
“There was some type of
relationship that developed
between the two” that was
close, Hallock said, but he
didn’t know whether it was a
romance.
Ravaghi denied supplied
any tools to the inmates, but
investigators suspect she
provided Google maps that
potentially could have helped
the inmates plan their route
after Àeeing the jail, Hallock
said.
According to a personal
website that sells children’s
books designed by Ravaghi
under the name “the Noosha
Collection,” she was born,
like Nayeri, in Iran.
She traveled in Europe
and Asia as a child and
attended college in Tehran
before coming to California
in 1997, where she got a
masters’ degree in education
and began teaching
English to non-na-
tive speakers.
She had under-
gone a sheriff’s
background check
before beginning
her assignment in
the jail, and the
college is working
closely with sher- Ravaghi
iff’s of¿cials to
provide anything they need,
the school’s statement said.
Hallock said investigators
believe he and the others —
alleged killer Bac Duong, 43,
and Jonathan Tieu,
20 — are living in a
white GMC Savana
van that was stolen
on Saturday in
southern
Los
Angeles.
Duong appar-
ently stole the
vehicle
from
someone
after
responding to a
sales ad and taking it for
a test drive, Hallock said.
“They may be driving around
and potentially living in the
back” of the van, he said.
Friday, January 29, 2016
Regulators get input — sort of
— on self-driving car rollout
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif.
— California regulators
deciding how to permit the
future rollout of self-driving
cars were told Thursday by
consumer advocates that
their cautious approach was
right on, and by companies
developing the technology
that the current course
will delay deployment of
vehicles that promise huge
safety bene¿ts.
The state’s Department
of Motor Vehicles heard the
comments at a workshop
as it wrestles with how
to keep the public safe as
the imperfect technology
matures — but not regulate
so heavily that the agency
stiÀes development of the
vehicles.
The agency sought
suggestions of possible
changes to a draft of prec-
edent-setting regulations it
released last month. Those
regulations will govern how
Californians can get the
cars once companies move
beyond their current testing
of prototypes.
Because California has
been a hotbed for the devel-
opment and regulation of the
technology, what happens in
the state has ripple effects
nationally.
What the DMV had
hoped would be a technical
discussion Thursday about
legal language instead
drifted toward broad state-
ments about the technolo-
gy’s merits.
Most vocal were advo-
cates for the blind — a
group that has not been
central to the regulatory
debate. Several argued the
technology could change
their lives, and the agency
should not get in the way.
“Please don’t leave my
family out in the waiting
room,” said Jessie Lorenz,
who is blind and relies on
public transit to get her
4-year-old daughter to
preschool. Lorenz would
prefer to use a self-driving
car for that — or even a
“spontaneous road trip.”
She said she has taken
a ride in a self-driving car
AP Photo/Tony Avelar, File
This May 2015 ile photo shows Google’s new
self-driving car during a demonstration at the
Google campus in Mountain View, Calif.
that Google Inc. has been
developing, “and it was
awesome.”
DMV attorney Brian
Soublet said the agency
appreciates the potential
bene¿ts for disabled people,
but its focus has to be on the
safety of the entire motoring
public.
Google wants California
to clear the road for the tech-
nology — and has expressed
disappointment in the
DMV’s draft regulations,
which say self-driving cars
must have a steering wheel
in case onboard computers
or sensors fail. A licensed
driver would need to sit in
the driver’s seat, ready to
seize control.
“We need to be careful
about the assumption that
having a person behind the
wheel” will make driving
safer, Chris Urmson, the
leader of Google’s self-
driving car project, told the
agency.
Google has concluded
that human error is the
biggest danger in driving,
and the company wants to
remove the steering wheel
and pedals from cars of
the future, giving people
minimal ability to intervene.
Urmson said that if the
draft regulations are not
changed, Google’s car
would not be available in
California. While Google
has been testing on roads
here for several years —
with trained safety drivers
behind the wheel, just in
case — it might deploy cars
without steering wheels in
Texas, where regulators
hailed the technology when
Google began testing proto-
types there last summer.
California’s DMV is still
months away from ¿nalizing
any regulations.
Under the draft frame-
work, an independent certi-
¿er would need to verify a
manufacturer’s assurances
that its cars are safe. Google
and traditional automakers
want manufacturer self-cer-
ti¿cation, the standard for
other cars.
Once a company receives
that veri¿cation, manu-
facturers would receive a
permit for three years.
Consumers could lease
the cars, but manufacturers
would be required to keep
tabs on how safely they
are driving and report that
performance to the state.
Drivers would need special,
manufacturer-provided
training, and then get a
special certi¿cation on their
licenses.
If a car breaks the law, the
driver would be responsible.
John Simpson of the
nonpro¿t
Consumer
Watchdog commended the
DMV on Thursday “for
putting safety ¿rst. I think
you got it exactly right” in
the draft, he said.
In written guidance
earlier this month, the
National +ighway Traf¿c
Safety
Administration,
projected
that
“fully
automated vehicles are
nearing the point at which
widespread deployment is
feasible.”
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