On this day, Aug. 21, in 1992, U.S. marshals moved in on Randy Weaver’s cabin at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, leading to one of the most controversial law enforcement incidents in recent history.

Six marshals, wearing camouflage and equipped with night-vision goggles and M-16 rifles, scouted the family property after Weaver, a white separatist, failed to show up for court on illegal-weapons charges.