LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jurors are getting a 2-mile overview of an armed standoff near Nevada cattleman Cliven Bundy's ranch in April 2014 as trial gets underway for six defendants accused of wielding weapons against federal agents.
An FBI agent told a U.S. District Court jury Monday that people on the ground probably didn't know he was shooting video from a small plane circling at nearly 12,000 feet above.
The images show people in on foot and on horseback approach armed federal agents and Bureau of Land Management employees near cattle in corals in a dry river wash beneath an Interstate 15 overpass.
Defense attorneys are portraying the defendants as law-abiding citizens spurred by reports of scuffles between federal agents and Bundy family members to protest a government roundup of Bundy cattle.