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US jury in Bundy standoff trial gets FBI aerial scene-setter
Source: Associated Press
US jury in Bundy standoff trial gets FBI aerial scene-setter
By KEN RITTER
Feb. 13, 2017 3:12 PM EST
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jurors got a unique perspective from the FBI Monday of an armed standoff developing in a dry river wash where six defendants are accused of wielding weapons to force federal agents to abandon a round-up of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's cattle in April 2014.
Special Agent E.J. McEwen testified that people on the ground probably didn't know he was nearly 12,000 feet above, recording video from a single-engine airplane as the noontime standoff developed beneath an Interstate 15 overpass near the community of Bunkerville. At that altitude, the Cessna would be hard to see or hear, McEwen told Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Myhre.
McEwen's images showed perhaps 200 people gathering on foot and on horseback with flags fluttering in a stiff breeze and dogs running ahead in a dry river wash beneath the overpass. Above them, a line of people were spread along the concrete side barriers of the freeway overpass.
The crowd faced a trio of pickup trucks and perhaps two dozen armed and armored federal agents and U.S. Bureau of Land Management employees guarding corrals holding almost 400 head of cattle collected by contract cowboys in previous days.
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By KEN RITTER
Feb. 13, 2017 3:12 PM EST
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jurors got a unique perspective from the FBI Monday of an armed standoff developing in a dry river wash where six defendants are accused of wielding weapons to force federal agents to abandon a round-up of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's cattle in April 2014.
Special Agent E.J. McEwen testified that people on the ground probably didn't know he was nearly 12,000 feet above, recording video from a single-engine airplane as the noontime standoff developed beneath an Interstate 15 overpass near the community of Bunkerville. At that altitude, the Cessna would be hard to see or hear, McEwen told Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Myhre.
McEwen's images showed perhaps 200 people gathering on foot and on horseback with flags fluttering in a stiff breeze and dogs running ahead in a dry river wash beneath the overpass. Above them, a line of people were spread along the concrete side barriers of the freeway overpass.
The crowd faced a trio of pickup trucks and perhaps two dozen armed and armored federal agents and U.S. Bureau of Land Management employees guarding corrals holding almost 400 head of cattle collected by contract cowboys in previous days.
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Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/7548367940764978b98aff56f4337f14/us-jury-bundy-standoff-trial-gets-fbi-aerial-scene-setter