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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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(118,379 posts)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 BLMs authority to impound cattle: You dont have authority to recognize.
In response to the agents question about whether a conflict could be avoided: There is one way.
You dont 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
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(118,379 posts)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