At a press conference Wednesday morning, U.S. District Attorney for Oregon Bill Williams said those arrested, including Ammon and Ryan Bundy, will be arraigned at 1:30 today in Portland, Oregon.
Referencing Tuesdays arrests and an officer-involved fatal shooting, an emotional Harney County Sheriff David Ward said, “We could have waited a lot longer, but this has been tearing our community apart.
“It didn’t have to happen. We all make choices in life. Sometimes those choices go bad.”
Also at the press conference, Greg Bretzing, Special Agent in charge of the FBI in Oregon, said in a statement, “the armed occupiers were given ample opportunities to leave peacefully. They were given the opportunity to negotiate. As outsiders to Oregon, they were given the opportunity to return to their homes and have their grievances heard through legal and appropriate means. They chose, instead, to threaten the very America they profess to love with violence, intimidation and criminal acts.”
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