10 years after armed standoff with federal agents, Bundy cattle are still grazing disputed rangeland [Video]

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Post date April 14, 2024

The words “Revolution is Tradition” stenciled in fresh blue and red paint mark a cement wall in a dry river wash beneath a remote southern Nevada freeway overpass, where armed protesters and federal agents stared each other down through rifle sights 10 years ago.Video above from 2017: Cliven Bundy goes on trialIt was just before noon on a hot and sunny Saturday when backers of cattle rancher Cliven Bundy, including hundreds of men, women and children, made the U.S. Bureau of Land Management quit enforcing court orders to remove Bundy cattle from vast arid rangeland surrounding his modest family ranch and melon farm.Witnesses later said they feared the sound of a car backfiring would have unleashed a bloodbath. But no shots were fired, the government backed down and some 380 Bundy cattle that had been impounded were set free.”Since then, we’ve relatively lived in peace,” Ryan Bundy, eldest among 14 …

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Police clear Columbia University building held by protesters; dozens arrested [Video]

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Post date April 14, 2024

Police officers carrying zip ties and riot shields stormed a Columbia University building being occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters.

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Rival protests clash at UCLA, police arrest Columbia demonstrators [Video]

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Post date April 14, 2024

The protests over the war in Gaza that have gripped college campuses across the U.S. came to a head Tuesday night as violent clashes erupted between pro-Palestinian protesters and counter-protesters at UCLA and police moved to arrest dozens of demonstrators who occupied a building at Columbia University. CBS News' Carter Evans and Lilia Luciano have the latest on the protests. And CBS News national security contributor Sam Vinograd has more on the police response to the protests and the alleged presence of outside agitators at the demonstrations.