Charges
The AP reports Cliven Bundy faces charges over the 2014 “standoff.”
Federal prosecutors in Las Vegas are charging Cliven Bundy with conspiracy, assault on a federal officer, obstruction, weapon and other crimes.
A criminal complaint filed Thursday stems from Bundy’s role at the center of a tense April 2014 armed standoff with federal officials near his ranch in Nevada.
It involved self-styled Bundy militia supporters pointing military-style weapons at federal agents trying to enforce a court order to round up Bundy cattle from federal rangeland near his ranch.
See that’s no good. You don’t want that, not even if you think the resisters have a valid cause. (If you’re living in a state where law enforcement just quietly kills people after arresting them, that’s different, but then you’re living in a failed state.) You want people to argue their case, not pull guns.
“(If you’re living in a state where law enforcement just quietly kills people after arresting them, that’s different, but then you’re living in a failed state.)”
#BlackLivesMatter so I guess we’re a failed state.
Almost two years to file these charges.
Huh.
Well I had Fred Hampton in mind as I was saying that, so yes, at times we do go that route and are a failed state. But it’s not so normal and usual that the Bundy gang can reasonably think they need to engage in armed resistance to avoid being killed by federal agents.
At least, it’s not normal or usual if you’re white (and especially if you’re rich; I’m sure there are poor white people who do get abused by the police, though not at the same frequency as people of color).