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Saturday 27 January 2018
Iowa: Officer who killed
3 life sentences given in girl's starvation death unarmed teen on

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — for confining Natalie's sib- death as well and spent Finn's ex-husband, Joe Finn road stop cleared
An Iowa woman convicted lings. months recovering after II, has pleaded not guilty
of murder in the starvation Finn said she intends to ap- Natalie suffered cardiac to kidnapping, neglect or
death of her 16-year-old peal but made no other arrest. abandonment and child HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A
Connecticut police officer
daughter was given three comment after hearing the Judge Karen Romano endangerment. He wasn't
life sentences Friday. sentences. called Finn's actions inex- living with the rest of the who killed an unarmed
teenager and wounded a
The sentences were hand- Natalie Finn weighed only cusable and ordered her family when Natalie died.
ed down to 43-year-old 85 pounds when she died to not have any contact His trial is scheduled to be- man in a traffic stop shoot-
ing was cleared of wrong-
Nicole Finn of West Des in October 2016, authorities with her adopted children. gin April 30.q
Moines. She was convicted have said. "The court cannot imagine During trial, prosecutors de- doing on Friday, sparking
protests by relatives and
last month of first-degree Experts testified that her sib- what kind of mental trau- scribed Nicole Finn as more
murder of Natalie Finn and lings, Mikayla and Jaden, ma these children have suf- concerned about her ani- other supporters.
Waterbury State's Attorney
three counts of kidnapping were at risk of starving to fered," Romano said. mals than her children. q Maureen Platt said in her
Oregon: investigation report that
Family of rancher killed in standoff sues US, police Bridgeport rookie officer
James Boulay was justi-
fied when he shot 15-year-
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The old Jayson Negron and
family of an Arizona ranch- 21-year-old Julian Fyffe in
er who was killed by police May.
during the armed occupa- Supporters of Negron have
tion of a national wildlife called for a murder charge
refuge in Oregon alleged in against Boulay.
a U.S. lawsuit Friday that he They dispute police Chief
was "deliberately executed Armando Perez's account
by a preplanned govern- that Boulay opened fire
ment ambush." when a stolen SUV driven
The wrongful-death lawsuit by Negron suddenly went
filed in Portland on the sec- into reverse and struck
ond anniversary of Robert Boulay.
"LaVoy" Finicum's death Fyffe was a passenger in
seeks at least $5 million in the SUV.
damages for his widow and He has said he and Negron
each of their 12 children. were left bleeding on the
The United States is listed street for nearly 20 minutes
as a defendant, along with before they received med-
the FBI, Oregon State Po- ical attention.
lice, Gov. Kate Brown and "Jayson Negron died tragi-
others. cally on May 9, 2017, af-
FBI spokeswoman Beth ter being shot by Officer
Anne Steele said the agen- James Boulay," Platt wrote
cy does not comment on In this Jan. 9, 2016 file photo, Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, left, a rancher from Arizona, talks to report- in her report.
pending litigation. Repre- ers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Ore. The family of Finicum, an Arizona "However ... Officer James
sentatives for the governor rancher fatally shot by Oregon State Police during the armed occupation of a national wildlife Boulay reasonably be-
and state police did not im- refuge, alleged in a federal lawsuit Friday, Jan. 26, 2018, that he was "deliberately executed by a lieved that the use of
mediately return messages preplanned government ambush." deadly force was neces-
seeking comment. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) sary to defend himself from
Finicum served as a spokes- that missed Finicum. The able," the lawsuit said. and arresting the occupi- the use of deadly force —
man for the armed group agent, W. Joseph Astarita, It claims Finicum was shot ers inside. that being the Subaru op-
led by Ammon and Ryan has pleaded not guilty to "assassination style" while Finicum, 54, was driving erated by Jayson Negron."
Bundy that occupied the federal charges of mak- trying to cross from Harney one vehicle. Video taken Family and supporters of
Malheur National Wildlife ing false statements and County into Grant County by a passenger showed Negron and Fyffe rallied
Refuge in 2016 to oppose obstruction of justice. He is for a meeting with a sher- the occupants panicking outside Platt's office Friday
federal control of land in listed as a defendant in the iff who was sympathetic to after authorities stopped and criticized the inves-
the U.S. West and the im- lawsuit. the ranchers' cause. the truck. tigation. Another protest
prisonment of two ranch- The complaint compares Dozens of people took over With his window rolled was planned for later in the
ers. the shooting of a Finicum the remote refuge in south- down, Finicum shouted day.
Investigators determined to the high-profile shoot- eastern Oregon from Jan. 2 at officers: "Shoot me, just "We are feeling all kinds of
that state troopers were ing of a North Korean de- to Feb. 11, 2016. They were shoot me! Put the bullet pain right now," said Jean-
justified in shooting Finicum fector in November 2017. allowed to come and go through me." nia Fu, an organizer of the
three times in the back af- It notes that the North Ko- for several weeks as author- Finicum then sped off, rally. "This investigation by
ter he exited his vehicle at rean man survived and ities tried to avoid blood- coming to a roadblock the state police ... this has
a police roadblock, put made it across the border shed seen in past standoffs and plowing into a snow- been a sham from the
his hands in the air and to a friendlier government at Waco, Texas, and Ruby bank. The complaint says start. ... We know the po-
then reached toward a on the other side. Ridge, Idaho. more than a dozen current lice can't investigate the
handgun in his inner jacket "The story was captivating, But authorities moved in and former Arizona officials police."
pocket. because in the American Jan. 26 when key standoff wrote a letter to Oregon's Platt also released surveil-
The investigation also psyche, the idea of being leaders left the refuge for governor, asking her to lance video from a drug
found that an FBI agent at shot in the back by your a community meeting in conduct a more transpar- store near the shooting site,
the scene failed to disclose own government for trying neighboring Grant County, ent investigation into what but it did not capture the
that he fired two rounds to cross a border is unthink- pulling over two vehicles happened next. q shooting. q