Bundy sons in Nevada accuse feds of assault in police complaint

Sons and sisters of Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher who has been resisting efforts by federal agents to seize his cattle grazing without permits on public land, filed police complaints with the local sheriff’s office on Friday accusing the agents of assault.

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Bundy and his supporters do not recognize federal authority over the land, which has been cleared of other ranchers’ livestock to protect the habitat of the desert tortoise.

In the police complaint on Friday, two younger sisters of Bundy and three of his sons accuse the federal agents of using a stun gun and of throwing one of the sisters to the ground.

They also say that Clark County Sheriff Douglas Gillespie should have intervened.

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The BLM has said it was authorized by federal court orders to seize the cattle and that it took necessary steps to protect the safety of its officers and the public.

“We welcome Mr. Bundy’s new interest in the American legal system,” it said in a statement said after Friday’s filings.

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Sharp-witted bureaucrat there.