Las Vegas Sun

March 18, 2024

‘Gestapo’ BLM officers decried in House hearing

The armed standoff between Cliven Bundy supporters and the Bureau of Land Management grew out of continued concern about heavy-handed actions by the federal agency’s law enforcement officials, a Utah county commissioner told a House committee on Thursday.

"You may not be aware that much of the support for the rancher by everyday citizens may have resulted from a growing frustration from the way they are treated by local BLM officers," Garfield County Commissioner Leland Pollock told the House Natural Resources Committee in the second of a series of hearings on alleged abuses by the BLM.

BLM officials facing an armed citizen militia eventually withdrew in April from a court-ordered roundup of Bundy’s cattle illegally grazing on federal land in Nevada.

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