Makeshift memorial springs up on Oregon highway for rancher

BURNS, Ore. -- About a dozen people paid their respects Sunday afternoon at a makeshift memorial that has sprung up where rancher Robert "LaVoy" Finicum was shot and killed by police last week on U.S. 395 north of Burns.

The mourners wiped tears, prayed and laid a copy of the U.S. Constitution on a large wooden cross that has been planted at the site.

The site also is surrounded by American flags and signs, including one that says "RIP LaVoy Finicum. A True American hero."

Meanwhile, the four people occupying a national wildlife refuge held their position Sunday.

They have demanded they be allowed to leave without being arrested.

The jailed group's leader, Ammon Bundy, and 10 others who were arrested last week remained in custody.

Through his lawyer, Bundy on Saturday again called on the remaining occupiers to leave.

The FBI has said it's trying to resolve the situation peacefully.

The mourners at the makeshift memorial Sunday included Brandon Curtis, a founder of the Pacific Patriots Network, which is demanding the removal of law enforcement officers from Burns.

"We've had enough," Curtis said. "This stops now."

The network said it had additional rallies planned for today in Burns and called for like-minded people to gather in the small eastern Oregon town.

"This is a call to action against an armed, militarized police force," B.J. Soper, a network leader, said.

"We want to protest this armed insurgency taking place by our federal government," Soper said of the standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns.

Activists are urging people who oppose a "militarized police presence" to converge on the small, high-desert town near the wildlife refuge that has been occupied by an armed group for a month.

The network also organized a rolling rally through Burns on Saturday night, and said it planned more demonstrations to protest the killing of Finicum, and the presence of numerous heavily armed law-enforcement officers at the standoff.

The rally drew more than 100 people and dozens of U.S. and Confederate flag-covered vehicles.