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NaturalHigh

(12,778 posts)
Fri Oct 28, 2016, 10:09 AM Oct 2016

Police evict oil pipeline protesters from private land

CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) — A months-long protest over the Dakota Access oil pipeline reached its most chaotic pitch yet when hundreds of law enforcement officers moved in to force activists off private property.

Thursday's nearly six-hour operation dramatically escalated the dispute over Native American rights and the project's environmental impact, with officers in riot gear firing bean bags and pepper spray.

Donnell Hushka, a spokeswoman for the Morton County Sheriff's Department, said 141 people were arrested. No serious injuries were reported, though one man was hurt in the leg and received treatment from a medic.

Among those arrested was a woman who pulled out a .38-caliber pistol and fired three times at officers, narrowly missing a sheriff's deputy, according to State Emergency Services spokeswoman Cecily Fong. Officers did not return fire, she said.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/police-evict-oil-pipeline-protesters-from-private-land/ar-AAjrLL6?ocid=spartanntp

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Police evict oil pipeline protesters from private land (Original Post) NaturalHigh Oct 2016 OP
Their sovoreign land DK504 Oct 2016 #1
It was bound to happen. lpbk2713 Oct 2016 #2

DK504

(3,847 posts)
1. Their sovoreign land
Fri Oct 28, 2016, 10:31 AM
Oct 2016

So Corporations and their puppet police are allowed to storm over boundaries of the Sioux nation as they legally protest illegal invasion of their lands, while the Bundy Bunch gets a sla[ on the wrist for illegally taking over Federal lands and refusal to pay their fees. Or when they trashed the federal offices of federal property, where's was the pepper spray and arrests at the Bundy debacle.


If it were possible for me to get our there and stand with the rightful owners of these illegal real and grabs. This makes me lose my shit.

lpbk2713

(42,759 posts)
2. It was bound to happen.
Fri Oct 28, 2016, 10:34 AM
Oct 2016




They were standing in the way of a multi-Billion dollar project.

The police know who their masters are.

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