Q&a: What To Know About The Oregon Ranching Standoff Case

(AP) — In a case sure to rouse strong feelings about control of Western lands, a jury found the leaders of the armed group that took over a national wildlife refuge in rural Oregon not guilty of conspiracy and possession of firearms at a federal facility. Authorities say he was reaching for a weapon when he exited the vehicle, and that's when Oregon State Police officers opened fire, killing him. The occupiers contended nobody was threatened, no workers were impeded from performing their duties and the government fired the only shots. [...] they say those shots, which killed Finicum, showed why they needed guns for protection. Federal prosecutors took two weeks to present their case to jurors, finishing with a display of more than 30 guns seized at the refuge after the standoff. In North Dakota on Thursday, law enforcement officers dressed in riot gear and firing bean bags and pepper spray evicted protesters from private land in the path of the Dakota Access oil pipeline. The route skirts the Standing Rock Reservation, and the tribe says it could endanger water supplies and disturb cultural sites. The tribe has gone to court to challenge the U.S.

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