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struggle4progress

(118,356 posts) Thu Feb 16, 2017, 01:30 PM Feb 2017

Testimony resumes in Bundy ranch standoff trial in Nevada

Feb 15, 2017 Updated Feb 15, 2017

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Testimony has resumed in federal court in Las Vegas in the trial of six men accused of wielding weapons to force federal agents to abandon a round-up of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's cattle in April 2014.

A U.S. Bureau of Land Management agent, Rand Stover, returned to the witness stand Tuesday for questioning about escalating tension between government officials and Bundy family members in the weeks before the armed standoff.

Prosecutor Steven Myhre (MY'-ree) asked Stover on Monday about confrontations that led roundup supervisors to ramp up security around federal agents and contract cowboys enforcing court orders to collect Bundy cattle in March 2014 ...

http://azdailysun.com/news/local/testimony-resumes-in-bundy-ranch-standoff-trial-in-nevada/article_3e02171d-d29e-5133-a4f9-697ddc8faf2c.html

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Testimony resumes in Bundy ranch standoff trial in Nevada (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2017 OP

K&R 2naSalit Feb 2017 #1

What Ryan Bundy told BLM agent before Bunkerville standoff struggle4progress Feb 2017 #2

BLM Agent Testifies Sniper Aimed At Him struggle4progress Feb 2017 #3

2naSalit

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1. K&R

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Thu Feb 16, 2017, 01:31 PM

Feb 2017

struggle4progress

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2. What Ryan Bundy told BLM agent before Bunkerville standoff

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Thu Feb 16, 2017, 01:32 PM

Feb 2017

By JENNY WILSON
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

... On a federal court order that authorized the BLM to seize cattle from a federal grazing allotment: “It should go before a state court.”

On whether Bundy and his family would recognize the BLM’s authority to impound cattle: “You don’t have authority to recognize.”

In response to the agent’s question about whether a conflict could be avoided: “There is one way. … You don’t come to gather our cattle” ...

On how the Bundys would respond: “I will do whatever it takes, and I will have several hundred supporters with me to help” ...

http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/bundy-blm/here-s-what-ryan-bundy-told-blm-agent-the-bunkerville-standoff-2014

struggle4progress

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3. BLM Agent Testifies Sniper Aimed At Him

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Thu Feb 16, 2017, 01:33 PM

Feb 2017

Feb 16, 2017 by Associated Press

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal agent testified that he saw a "sniper" on a freeway overpass pointing a military-style weapon at him while a crowd of protesters in a dry river bed called for the government to release Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's cattle in April 2014.

Trial resumed Wednesday in Las Vegas with Bureau of Land Management Special Agent Michael Johnson telling a federal court jury he "absolutely" felt his life was in danger ...

https://knpr.org/headline/2017-02/blm-agent-testifies-bundy-ranch-standoff-sniper-aimed-him

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