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Ammon Bundy arrested...
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Oregon armed protest leader Ammon Bundy seized in deadly clash
26 Jan.`16 - US police say they have arrested the leader of an armed militia which occupied a wildlife refuge in Oregon, with one person killed in a shoot-out.

Ammon Bundy and four others were arrested during a traffic stop, police said. One person was injured. Two other activists connected to the group were later arrested in separate incidents, also in Oregon. The self-proclaimed militia led by Mr Bundy occupied the refuge earlier this month in support of two local ranchers. Other members of the group were reportedly still at the refuge, where the FBI was setting up a perimeter. FBI officials said in a statement that Mr Bundy, 40, was arrested in a traffic stop on on Highway 395 along with his brother Ryan Bundy, 43, Bryan Cavalier, 44, Shawna Cox, 59, and Ryan Walen Payne, 32. Two other activists connected to the group, Joseph Donald O'Shaughnessy, 45, and Peter Santilli, 50, were later arrested, separately, in Burns, Oregon.

Police arrested Ammon Bundy and five members of his group in a traffic stop on Highway 395​

Vehicle halted

According to the Oregonian newspaper, Mr Bundy was en route to a community meeting in John Day, Oregon, where he was scheduled to be a guest speaker, when authorities stopped his vehicle. The newspaper said Ryan Bundy was injured in the arrest, suffering a minor gunshot wound. Authorities did not release the identity of the person killed. Some 25 miles (40 km) of Highway 395 was shut in both directions following the incident, local officials said. A joint statement released by the FBI and Oregon State Police said the two forces conducted an "enforcement action to bring into custody a number of individuals associated with the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. During that arrest, there were shots fired."

'Hospital treatment'

The statement added: "One individual who was a subject of a federal probable cause arrest is deceased. We will not be releasing any information about that person pending identification by the medical examiner's office. "One individual suffered non-life threatening injuries and was transported to a local hospital for treatment. He was arrested and is currently in custody." Mr Bundy and a right-wing militia group occupied the refuge on 2 January to protest against the imprisonment of two ranchers in rural Harney County. My Bundy and his brother are sons of Clive Bundy, who was in 2014 involved in a stand-off over grazing rights between armed anti-government activists and federal officials.

Oregon armed protest leader Ammon Bundy seized in deadly clash - BBC News

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One dead as police arrest Oregon siege leader: FBI
26 Jan.`16 - One person died in an armed clash with police as they arrested the leaders of a group laying siege to an American wildlife refuge, the FBI said.

Ammon Bundy, who has led the revolt in rural Oregon, was one of seven people arrested after a stand-off pitting an anti-government militia against the US authorities. Bundy has said protesters acted at the request of a rancher who wanted to graze his 600 cattle on federal property, but was prevented from doing so when the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) installed a fence last year.

Duane Ehmer rides his horse Hellboy at the occupied Malheur National Wildlife Refuge during the occupation of the federal building in Burns, Oregon​

Bundy, 40, was arrested along with six others who face "a federal felony charge of conspiracy to impede officers of the United States from discharging their official duties through the use of force, intimidation, or threats," the FBI said. "During (the) arrest, there were shots fired," the FBI statement said of an operation along a highway involving FBI agents and Oregon state police.

Authorities did not immediately identify the person who was killed. "One individual who was a subject of a federal probable cause arrest is deceased," and another person was injured and receiving medical treatment, the FBI statement added. The activist group which took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge was protesting the jailing of two local ranchers, Dwight and Steven Hammond, who were convicted of arson.

A member of an armed anti-government militia walks down a road January 4, 2016 at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters near Burns, Oregon​

They were calling for the government to turn over federal land in the area to the people. Both ranchers distanced themselves from the movement and voluntarily began their scheduled prison sentences after the occupation began. Some neighbors and members of the local community, notably the Oregon Cattlemen's Association, rejected the takeover, even if they support the Hammonds' plight.

One dead as police arrest Oregon siege leader: FBI

 

[tinydancer]

I keep on wondering why these protesters have to be arrested but Occupy stayed in how many cities for how long?

Odd. Double standard.

 

[Missourian]

My wife said "where did these protesters learn how to protest?!?"

You don't leave and go to a meeting.

It all began with a traffic stop while Bundy and some of his followers were en route to a community meeting at a John Day senior center, about 70 miles north of Burns.

Shots were fired after FBI agents, Oregon State troopers and other law enforcement agencies made the stop on US Highway 395.

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CNN is reporting it's unclear who fired first.

1 dead, 8 arrested after leaders of armed group occupying refuge clash with FBI
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