Tags: Protesters

Ammon Bundy, the leader of the standoff in Oregon, offered to plead guilty only if the prosecutors will drop the charges against the protesters for their roles in an armed occupation at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge.

Leaders and protesters of a six-week armed occupation at a US wildlife refuge in rural Oregon are to be arraigned on charges of conspiring to impede federal officers policing the compound during a fight over federal control of land in the West.

Sgt. Jeff Rothecker, a St. Paul police officer is suspended for commenting the rivers to run over the BLM protesters. He commented under the name of "JM Roth" on Facebook and calle the protesters "idiots".