Bureau of Indian Affairs keeps mum after fatal police shootings on Duck Valley, Fort McDermitt reservations

Bureau of Indian Affairs keeps mum after fatal police shootings on Duck Valley, Fort McDermitt reservations

Editor’s note: This story contains graphic details of police violence.Cody Whiterock was running for his life — the Bureau of Indian Affairs police had come for him again. He’d been drinking at a friend’s bunkhouse on a farm in Owyhee County, Idaho, south of Boise, but the farm’s owner wanted him out and called 911. When BIA police came, Whiterock did what he’d done before — he fled in his car, a BIA officer confronting him at gunpoint. But this…

Two Killings, No Explanation: Families Left Reeling After Bureau of Indian Affairs Shootings - Underscore Native News

Cody Whiterock was running for his life — the Bureau of Indian Affairs police had come for him again. He’d been drinking at a friend’s bunkhouse on a farm in Owyhee County, Idaho, south of Boise, but the farm’s owner wanted him out and called 911. When BIA police came, Whiterock did what he’d done before — he fled in his car, a BIA officer confronting him at gunpoint.   But this time, his car became stuck in the snow. He ran into the sagebrush p…