Sentences with phrase «armed standoff»
An "armed standoff" refers to a tense situation where two or more people, usually with weapons like guns, are in a confrontation and unwilling to back down. It usually involves a threat of violence or harm, and it requires negotiation or intervention to resolve peacefully. Full definition
Bundy and 16 other defendants face 16 felony counts in connection with a 2014 armed standoff with federal agents over cattle grazing on federal land east of Las Vegas.
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Ulster County Sheriff Paul Van Blarcum says his department is ready to join the growing list of police agencies which employ aerial drones for everything from reconstructing traffic accidents to resolving armed standoffs.
It all stems from this tense armed standoff between federal agents and Cliven Bundy and his militia supporters at the ranch.
James E. Walcott, who held police at bay for an hour during an armed standoff on Halloween 2016, was placed on five years» probation Thursday.
July 11, 2017 • As a retrial begins for four men involved in an armed standoff against federal agents at Cliven Bundy's Nevada ranch, there are renewed questions about the strength of the federal government's case.
The charges are in connection with an armed standoff against federal agents.
Bundy, two of his sons and another militiaman are accused of leading an armed standoff against federal agents near the Bundy ranch outside Las Vegas in 2014.
January 8, 2018 • Less than a month after declaring a mistrial, Judge Gloria Navarro said there can be no retrial against the Nevada rancher and three other men, who led an armed standoff with federal agents in 2014.
The anti-government rancher is charged with leading an armed standoff against federal agents in 2014.
December 21, 2017 • The government's case against Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy accuses him of leading an armed standoff over control of U.S. public lands in 2014.
The climax is a shocking Shakespearean bloodbath that sees a sizable chunk of the cast butchered in the space of a few minutes as Harold desperately stumbles from one armed standoff to another.
It seems like they were shooting some kind of armed standoff.
The lack of sociopolitical context and even - handed perspective minimizes the contemporary relevance of this straightforward thriller chronicling an armed standoff involving hostages at the Iranian embassy in London.
Following an armed standoff against a snarling lieutenant (Bill Tangradi, «Argo»), Newt officially becomes a wanted man, fleeing into the swamps with the help of a kind, sweet plantation servant named Rachel (the ever - appealing Gugu Mbatha - Raw, «Belle») who first caught Newt's eye when she once tended to his sick boy.