Posted March 24, 2017 9:42 am by Comments

By Brian Seay

The “Battle of Bunkerville” lasted six days in April 2014, eventually ending without any gunfire. (Photo: Reuters)
Posing as documentary filmmakers, FBI agents gathered footage played in court this week in the trial of six men who participated in a nearly weeklong standoff with federal agents near Cliven Bundy’s Nevada cattle ranch in April 2014.
FBI Special Agent Charles Johnson gave detailed testimony this week about the footage, said to be shot for a production called “America Reloaded,” which effectively drew statements from at least three of the men on trial, according to reports.
In footage played Thursday, defendant Gregory Burleson told the undercover agents he was ready to kill federal agents, and was disappointed things ended without bloodshed, according to KLAS-TV. The day before, a federal informant testified that Burleson was a paid FBI informant in 2012, though it’s unclear when or if he stopped working for the feds.
“What I was looking for was just a show of support,” defendant Scott Drexler told the undercover filmmakers, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “It seems as if when there are armed people around a situation, then the authorities have to be a little more civil, have to treat you like a person.

Source: Guns.com

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