Videos lead defense opening in Bundy standoff trial in Vegas

 

November 16, 2017



LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal jury got a first look Tuesday at videos of confrontations involving armed federal agents and Bundy family members that rancher Cliven Bundy's lawyer said provided a catalyst for an April 2014 gunpoint standoff and a trial now underway in Las Vegas.

One clip that attorney Bret Whipple said spread widely on the internet showed Bundy's sister, Margaret Huston, thrown to the ground by a federal agent after she approached the driver's side of a vehicle involved in a U.S. Bureau of Land Management cattle round-up near the Bundy ranch.

Whipple derided an interpretation that...



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