police say they are investigating any connection between the bundy standoff and the millers. as you all know, there was a convergence of not only militia, but white asupremacists and sovereign citizens to the bundy ranch. we continue to look at any connect activity that jarad or amanda miller may have to that previous action. the miller s neighbor went on to say jerad miller made threats against law enforcement. later on, he started talking about killing cops. and i told him, you can t be doing that. you know? that s not right, man. my mom is a retired police officer. you can t be doing this. why did he say he wanted to kill kwops? i think it was his [ bleep ]. i thought he was looney. i thought he was talking ought of his hot air. you didn t take it seriously? hell no, i didn t take it seriously. if i thought they were actually going to do something like that i would have called metro. he s not looney.
nearby walmart where they killed another person before killing themselves. a neighbor of the miller s told nbc news the couple s anti-government views intensified after they attended the stand-off at cliven bundy s nevada ranch. after a while, after the bundy thing was going on over there, they went over there for a couple of days and then they come back and, i guess, after that, jared become anti-government and anti-police. he was talking about killing cops. he didn t want nothing to do with the government. he had his wife quit her job that she s had for a while and hell, he wouldn t even let her collect unemployment or food stamps on anything. anti-government? anti-government. there s reports that jared miller was kicked off the bundy ranch for having a criminal record. a reporter from our local affiliate knsv, actually caught up with jared miller at the bundy standoff and here s what miller had to say my name is jair jerad miller.
this movement s rhetoric is so extreme in terms of hatred of police, federal officials, the entire government apparatus, the obama administration, et cetera, it s not surprising to see somebody like that, like miller, making these basic threats towards law enforcement. this is where this rhetoric leads. to hatred of all those kinds of officials and often violence. now, nbc news caught up with miller s nan today. listen to what he had to say. after the bundy thing going on over there, they went over there for a couple of days. then they come back. and i guess after that, jared became anti-government, anti-police. he was talking about killing cops. he didn t want nothing to do with the government. he had his wife quit her job that she s had for a while. and hell, he wouldn t even let her collect unemployment or food stamps or anything. so this was the picture you re painting for us that the
time to start killing cops. this is on his facebook page. and just days before the shooting he posted, quote, to stop this oppression, i fear can only be accomplished with bloodshed. i mean, did police talk about this further? is there any concern that there was flags here? if these are things posted on a facebook page. i have some real concerns about the amount of attention being paid to people in this movement, and to that kind of openly hostile rhetoric. because he was to some extent sort of advertising what he wanted to do. that s also true according to neighbors. do you think authorities are not taking these kinds of things seriously enough, these hate groups seriously enough? i mean, to have these kinds of postings, several of them on a facebook page, read flags should have gone off somewhere. i would say basically
you are a forgiving guy? you are going to let that slide. i m sure there is a reason why we have hired hired her. hasn t reached out to the victim s family i don t know if there is healing going on. i suggest maybe they have this dialogue and this conversation. i don t think they should be mad at her. they should be mad at the justice department. the criminal justice system sentenced her she did that time. you say she was involved in a heist. yeah. i have read countless stories of people guilty of murder because they were involved in the heist. she was the driver? you are okay with that. depends if there was any planning involved in killing cops. you were one of the officers involved in the heist with cathy bodine. can you describe the scene? we were looking for black individuals in the truck and we had two white people in the front. we didn t know if we had the right truck or not. proceeded to the back of the truck i hollered something is wrong here. as soon as