Cop shot Native American man 17 times in 4 seconds; court ruled it was ‘reasonable'

PORCUPINE, N.D. — Corrine Kopp doesn’t want to hear any more apologies.

“‘I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,’” Kopp said during a recent interview, repeating the phrase she’s heard over and over again in the eight years since a Bureau of Indian Affairs officer shot and killed her common-law husband and the father of her three children on the side of a highway on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. “I'm so sick of those words.”

What Kopp wants instead is justice for what she believes was an unwarranted and illegal killing.

But Kopp’s long battle to hold accountable the government and the officer who shot her husband, Ryan Gipp, for that perceived injustice ended in defeat last week.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that BIA Police Officer Raymond Webb’s decision to fire 17 ro