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Utah officers shut down animal rights activists. Now their county is paying the protesters thousands.

Activists were trying to talk to Beaver County residents ahead of a high-profile trial over two piglets taken from a Smithfield Foods farm.

(Leo Chia) A screenshot from video recorded by Leo Chia shows Curtis Vollmar being confronted by Beaver County Sheriff’s Sgt. Warren Woolsey, left, and Deputy Lonnie Laws in Beaver, Saturday, July 23, 2022. The county is now paying a $52,000 settlement to Vollmar, two other men and two animal rights groups.