Posted on 10/27/2016 9:40:36 PM PDT by Nextrush
A federal jury on Thursday found Ammon Bundy, his brother Ryan Bundy and five co-defendants not guilty.......
"More than we could have hoped for," said one of Ammon Bundy's lawyers, J. Morgan Philpot......
Ammon Bundy, his hands clasped behind his back, nodded as the "not guilty" verdicts were read for him first. As he sat, he smiled and rubbed the shoulder of his lawyer, Marcus Mumford.
His older brother Ryan Bundy stood. As the "not guilty" verdicts were read, he nodded, and mouthed to the jury, "Thank you." Defendant Neil Wampler hugged and kissed his defense lawyer, Maxfield.
The coda to the stunning verdict, undoubtedly a significant blow to federal prosecutors, was when Ammon Bundy's lawyer Marcus Mumford argued that his client, dressed in a gray suit and white dress shirt, should be allowed to walk out of court, a free man.
U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown told him there was a U.S. Marshal's hold on him from a pending federal indictment in Nevada.
"If there's a detainer show me," Mumford stood, arguing before the judge.
Suddenly a group of about six U.S. Marshals surrounded Mumford at his defense table. The judge directed them to move back but moments later, the marshals grabbed on him.
"What are you doing?" Mumford yelled, as he struggled and was taken down to the floor.
As the deputy marshals yelled. "Stop resisting," the judge demanded, "Everybody out of the courtroom now!"
Mumford was taken into custody....
lawyer J. Morgan Philpot, said afterwards on the courthouse steps that Mumford had been arrested and marshals had used a stun gun, or Taser....
Philipot decried the marshals' treatment of Mumford in the courtroom. "What happened at the end is symbolic of the improper use of force by the federal government"....
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...
The way attorney Mumford was treated in the courtroom after the verdicts with tasing by federal marshals is something you would expect from the thugs who run Venezuela or Zimbabwe.
As the reporter writes, even the judge asked the marshals to stand back while the lawyer argued before her, but in the end she wanted everyone to clear the courtroom while the deputy marshals ("deputy thugs") did their dirty work. Pathetic.
There are tweets from reporter Maxine Bernstein embedded in the story.
Perhaps in the end this was a case of prosecutorial overreach against people who I came to learn from following the events back in January were humble, peaceful, God loving people seeking some justice for two ranchers thrown in jail as terrorists for protecting their land from a wildfire.
Only because they are NOT GUILTY...
WTHeck?
The treatment of the defense lawyer was a warning to any other lawyer who even thinks about defending a patriot in the future...
And that is how citizens take power back from the gangster government.
Jeff Banta and David Fry have walked out of jail free men after the verdicts......
pic on this twitter page
https://twitter.com/Leah_Sottile
The federal marshalls tackled and tased a defense lawyer after a not guilty verdict on his clients was delivered.
Wonderful.
F the Feds, and the State of Oregon. F them all in the A.
WTF?!!?
Did the Jackboots just have to get a few last licks in along with a tazer shot? Was Mumford trying to make a break for it? Did the U.S. Marshall’s need to dive tackle against the Judges orders in open court?
I say again, WTF?
It will all come to a head soon if these oligarchs remain in power.
The treatment of the defense lawyer was the furious face of the evil entity known as the US govt trying to get a little payback.
The judge should hold all of the Marshalls in contempt of court and jail them without bail, pending a citizen’s review and possible criminal charges, for impartiality’s sake.
As for the verdict, you just witnessed the brilliance of the founding fathers in action.
FBI agents under investigation for possible misconduct in LaVoy Finicum shooting
I really want to support the police whenever I can but for whatever reason there are elements within certain departments that make it really difficult to do sometimes. The FBI has traditionally been known for their cool heads and honesty regardless of which party is in power.
I agree with the Freeper who said our law enforcement agencies need to be under congress and not the executive branch. It's just too easy for a corrupt President, like we have right now, to use them wrongly because they will obey the chain of command even if the orders are wrong and probably illegal. Definitely illegal if the goal is to gun down a citizen who has not fired a shot at them or even had a gun in his hand or who was not attempting to attack them. Pretty hard for a team of police officers to make a case of self defense in that scenario; especially when it's all on tape and has been released to the media for distribution like the Finicum shooting was.
Great news. Libtards on twitter are all upset, I guess the feds should have shot them all and have been done with it.
The actions of those federal marshals is disgusting.
Those dirtbags are the ones who should be in prison.
I think the political ones who want Hillary POTUS are in the mode of trying to keep the Left angry using the verdict to say, “look these whites got off” while “people of color”
in the cities and at the North Dakota pipeline protest are getting attacked by cops and so on.
I sense they are creating some resentment to build votes for Hillary and others on November 8th.
I hope the straight out Left who support Jill Stein and have ‘principles’ as in their disdain for the pay to play political system we have carry on because I have no hatred for them.
This Uniparty Corporatist system that forces the Hammonds from Oregon into jail as terrorists, killed LaVoy Finicum and tried the people in Oregon as if they were evil is also involved in projects like the North Dakota pipeline and so on.
People of the “Right” and “Left” need to find common ground to fight the government corruption out there and the overreach of law enforcement.
Not appropriate behavior on the part of the Marshals. Something is wrong with this picture.
There’s something not right.
I’m voting but more has to be done other than hopefully electing Donald Trump as POTUS.
The insanity of law enforcement arrogance that they can claim to be threatened and use excessive force on people time and time again is a real problem that goes beyond what happened in that courtroom yesterday.
CHILLING Federal Abuse when the verdict did not go their way.
Mumford: “It reconfirms the trust in the people....It’s gotta be the people that forces the govt to respect its limits.” Mumford is brave for reminding the government workers that they have limits. Mumford also got wounded by the government workers who forgot their limits. The Patriots in Oregon deserve full respect.
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Ping to Fascism of Federal Government.
The civilized veneer of the Obama admnistration is wearing very thin.
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