Tense Video: Feds Taser Pro-Nevada Rancher Protester During Clash

The Blaze ^ | April 10, 2014 | Becket Adams

[Idaho_Cowboy]

The standoff between a Nevada rancher and the U.S. government escalated Wednesday when protesters confronted federal agents tasked with the chore of rounding up approximately 900 “trespass cattle.”

The confrontation, captured on video, resulted in one protester, the rancher’s son, being hit with a stun gun while another, the rancher’s daughter, was pushed to the ground. One woman said federal officials struck her with their vehicle.

“You have no right to be here!” a female protester shouted at agents.

One of agents warned the demonstrators to back up or they would get bitten by their K9 unit.

“Don’t threaten a woman!” another protester shouted back.

The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management and U.S. National Park Service confirmed in a statement that one protester was hit with a stun gun, adding that the action only occurred after a demonstrator attempted to block federal agents with an all-terrain vehicle.

“A BLM truck driven by a non-law enforcement civilian employee assisting with gather operations was struck by a protester on an ATV, and the truck’s exit from the area was blocked by a group of individuals who gathered around the vehicle,” the agencies said in a statement.

[minnesota_bound]

The democrats willing to murder people over a turtle.

[Lion Den Dan]

While I am in sympathy with the ranchers, you need to get your facts strait. The BLM can and does permit drilling on grazing leases. It is legal and not intrusive on the grazing lease. Your perjorative use of the term “Fracking,” only highlights your ignorance as fracking reduces the impact of drilling on the surface and enables recovery of oil that would otherwise be lost to us.

[Paladin2]

"Your perjorative use of the term “Fracking,”"

Uh, NOT my term.

Select the stuff in quotes, google and find the source.

[Durus]

Fair enough.

[Paladin2]

It's a quote from a source that can easily be found by using the text to google for it.

Hence the quote marks.

[Cen-Tejas]

.....LOL, I know everybody is tired of Texas this and Texas that but so help me god I just cannot imagine a West Texas Sheriff NOT being right in the middle of the citizens AND the feds in a similar roadside fracas going on in his county and telling both sides to back off or he would arrest all of em and most of all NO ONE was taking anybody’s cattle anywhere today!

The optics of those feds with guns and dogs and pointing stun guns reminds me of Selma and all over fed ego! No telling what is going to happen now with hundreds of other outsiders headed out there.

One little spark is all it’s going to take and some people are going to be dead. We’ve seen it all before.