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Already, ominous theories about the nature of Tuesday's fatal shooting and arrests have begun to creep up on the rightward reaches of the internet. "BOMBSHELL: Rancher LaVoy Finicum Shot and Killed by Feds While he was laying face down in the street" read one headline on woundedamericanwarrior.com. "Tonight peaceful patriots were attacked on a remote road for supporting the constitution. One was killed. Who are the terrorists?" offers one of several memes spinning the incident on the Bundy Ranch Facebook page. Another says, "LaVoy Finicum stood for your children's liberty. So our government murdered him while he was unarmed with his hands in the air. Who stands with liberty."The occupiers and some of their supporters seem to be suggesting that Finicum had surrendered and was killed in cold blood. One of the remaining occupiers, Jason Patrick, told Reuters by phone that "the government can kill who it wants for whatever reason it wants with impunity," and compared Finicum to Tamir Rice, the unarmed 12-year-old African-American boy fatally shot outside a Cleveland recreation center in 2014 by a police officer who was never charged.Earlier this month Finicum told NBC News that he'd rather die than be detained. He also apparently wrote a post-apocalyptic book about a man who stood up to government and got in a shootout with officers, as BuzzFeed reported earlier this month.At least one man claiming to have been at the scene, Mark McConnell, disputes the speculation that Finicum played no role in his own demise. On Wednesday, McConnell took to Facebook in the form of a video to give a detailed account of the confrontation in which he suggests Finicum first fled authorities and then charged law enforcement on foot after his truck was stuck in a snow bank."Levoy was very passionate about the movement, about what we were doing up here," McConnell said in the video. "This game, it's over. This stage of the game is over, it's time to bring on the next stage."Follow Brian McManus on Twitter.