Bundy asks holdouts at refuge to go home

“Please go home”, Bundy said in a statement read by his attorney following a court hearing.

NewsChannel 21 on Wednesday had its first look at the federal government’s case against the first eight arrested refuge occupiers – and you can, too, as we’ve uploaded the 31-page document online. “Please go home”, he said.

When we spoke to Challice on Tuesday, she said there was talk to gather all of the family members up before heading to OR to bring his body home. If we have issues with the way things are going in our government, we have a responsibility as citizens to act on them in an appropriate manner.

“He got out of the auto and he had his hands in the air and he’s like, ‘Just shoot me then, just shoot me, ‘ and they did, they shot him dead”, said Victoria Sharp. “Please go home”, Bundy said.

Authorities refused to release any details about the encounter. LaVoy Finicum was killed in the confrontation.

Federal and state law enforcement authorities have blocked the roads leading to the refuge.

They were arrested Tuesday night when Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and police intercepted them on an OR highway.

“The gunmen originally took over the Malheur federal reserve in protest over the jailing of two local ranchers, Dwight Hammond and his son Steven, who were convicted of arson”.

Developing this morning, the FBI says several vehicles have left the occupied federal refuge in Burns, Oregon… Bundy’s militants have been able to come and go from the community as they liked, and the government previously took a limited response with only a couple arrests. He said the convoy was driving through a forest when they were stopped by agents in heavy-duty trucks.

The FBI has not confirmed the number of people still there.

Jason Patrick, who remained at the refuge following Bundy’s arrest on Tuesday told Reuters by phone that some protesters were leaving on Wednesday afternoon through checkpoints set up by authorities, but rejected the word “surrender”.

“Right now, we’re doing fine”, Patrick said.

It was unclear how many people remained inside the refuge, but one of them – identified as David Fry, who is from suburban Cincinnati – has been posting live streaming video of the holdouts as they drink beer, smoke marijuana and await an anticipated shootout with law enforcement officers. Also: “ONLY RELIEF AIRCRAFT OPERATIONS UNDER DIRECTION OF FBI ARE AUTHORIZED IN THE AIRSPACE”.

People offered conflicting accounts of the death.

Led by Bundy, the militants have been occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Ore., since early this month as part of an ongoing dispute between ranchers and the federal Bureau of Land Management. Bundy’s brother, Ryan, was wounded.

Brand Thornton, one of Bundy’s supporters, said he left the refuge Monday and wasn’t sure what those remaining would do. When agents approached the truck driven by Filicum, he drove off with officers in pursuit. But, he added, “I saw them shooting at each other”.

“I think the overwhelming feeling was a sense of relief that the standoff was coming to an end”, Burns Mayor Craig Lafollette said in an interview with RT’s Anya Parampil.

Payne said the group’s goal is “to restore the (Hammonds’) and Bundys’ rights to life, liberty and property”.

“LaVoy shouted, ‘Don’t shoot. We’re unarmed, ‘” Briana Bundy told The Associated Press. “They began to fire on them”.

“It didn’t have to happen”, he said.

Their attorneys asked the judge to release them on bail.

McConnell had a different perspective.

Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward also called on them to leave, saying: “This cant happen anymore”.

The occupation “has been tearing our community apart. There doesn’t have to be bloodshed in our community”. Bundy’s father, Cliven, was a key figure in a 2014 armed standoff over unpaid grazing fees in Nevada.