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.
Here’s two comments from the post:
1. “So African-American patriots aggrieved about the criminal justice system are presumably now free to head over to Oregon and occupy a federal courthouse for several weeks while armed to the teeth with AR-47s and that will be legal too, right?
There’s one law for armed white people seizing our federal land, and another law for unarmed black people walking down their street. It makes me sick.”
2.”Imagine how the Native Americans at Standing Rock feel. If they loaded up on weapons and occupied a government building how lone would they last?”
I’m speechless.