PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -The leaders of an armed group that took over a national wildlife refuge in rural Oregon have been found not guilty of conspiracy and possession of firearms at a federal facility.
A jury on Thursday exonerated brothers Ammon and Ryan Bundy and five others of conspiring to impede federal workers from their jobs at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
Some of the defendants also were charged with possession of firearms at a federal facility and were acquitted on that count as well.
The standoff began Jan. 2 and lasted nearly six weeks, bringing new attention to a long-running dispute over control of federal lands in the U.S. West.
The Bundys are still facing charges in Nevada stemming from a high-profile 2014 standoff with federal agents trying to round up their father Cliven Bundy’s cattle.
There is no such thing as white privilege
In my best Homer Simpson impression: when will you people learn trial by jury simply doesn’t work!
Man, good thing the feds have them months to build up all those charges so that they were guaranteed to get put away for a long, long time.
Further evidence that eleventy-dimensional chess is just a sop for people who can’t believe that their favorite leader has blown it.
Encouraging insurrectionist behavior. Fuck the jury.
Score one for the rednecks…
This is what Murika is evolving into…