Police shoot rubber bullets at Dakota Access Pipeline protesters

  http://www.rt.com/usa/365133-dakota-access-pipeline-standoff/











"Pepper Spray And Tear Gas Used On North Dakota Protesters"

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59 seconds - wochit news

Activists and law enforcement clashed again on Wednesday at a site near the Dakota Access pipeline. While dozens of activists waded through waist-deep water, attempting to reach land owned by the pipeline's developer, they were met by police officers using pepper spray and tear gas. According to law enforcement the demonstrators "were building an illegal, man-made, wooden bridge across the Cantapeta Creek" in order to gain access to property owned by The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The bridge was dismantled but activists continued across the water by swimming and using boats and canoes. Some were treated for hypothermia by volunteer medics. A day earlier President Obama "raised the possibility of future reroutes to alleviate tribal concerns." As it stands, the pipeline would destroy sacred sites of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and potentially harm the tribe's drinking .

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Be the change you wish to see in this world.

The oil can be transported by truck, rail, or pipeline. Pipeline is the most efficient, and the safest route to move the volume of oil that they want. The oil fields are great for the economy of North Dakota and have created a bunch of good paying jobs that attract people from all over. The only reason America has gotten to where they are is by building infrastructure over the last 250 years. The Indians have many more rights than the average Americans due to the treaties that have been written over the past 250 years. They can hunt, fish, gather rice,etc. whenever they want. They can live on a reservation that is a sovereign Nation, or they can choose to blend in with the rest of society. It doesn't matter to me which way they choose to live their lives, but remember a lot has changed in the last 200 years and they now have firearms, motor vehicles, power boats, health care, and CASINO'S. Thing have changed for everyone over the last 200 years. Some Indians choose only the changes they want and fight all the rest. The Indians had conflict with other tribes and bands long before white man ever showed up, and only a small number of people where really out to wipe them all out. The pipeline would not go across a reservation because they is a sovereign nation and the Indians would tap into it. The land the are fighting about is "Sacred Land" where they may have ancestors buried, or for other reasons. But is this truly the reason they are fighting about this? Are the roads built around this area disturbing these areas too? Is it a money issue? Like they think they should be reimbursed because they see the money involved? Or is it just a reason to get noticed? They can say all land is sacred to them, but at some point the must also understand that the money they receive depends on the growth of the Country. The Corporation building the pipeline has been cleared to do so by the Government.The government has to do what it can to keep this promise other wise the corporation could go after the government, or Indians for loses incurred. Back in the day the Rail Roads were privately owned and came across things like this, but now the government has to do years of paperwork to make things happen.

Well, if you really want to know, then you have a lot of reading/ catching up to do.

Protesters, Including Children, Mauled As Private Mercenaries Attack Native American Pipeline Protest

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/mercenaries-attack-protesters-dogs/
* 4 Video & 14 embedded links*

Protesters, Including Children, Mauled As Private Mercenaries Attack Native American Pipeline Protest
Claire Bernish

A private security firm guarding the highly controversial construction of $3.8 billion oil pipeline turned mercenary on Saturday, unleashing vicious attack dogs against a sizable crowd of peaceful protesters — including women and children.

Members of the Standing Rock Sioux and at least 100 other Native American nations as well as activists and advocates peacefully chanted “water is life” while guards held dogs nearby to intimidate the crowd. Without warning, these security henchmen showered the demonstrators with pepper spray and released the dogs — at least six people were bitten, including a young child.

Called the Dakota Access Pipeline by those responsible for its construction — and an evil, immoral usurpation and exploitation by those who know better — the project is slated to span four states, stretching 1,172 miles, but threatens the reservation’s water supply and would invade sacred land.

For months, the Standing Rock Sioux have camped in the pipeline’s proposed path, halting construction at least temporarily as Energy Transfer Partners, the firm responsible, continues to intimidate, harass, and now attack protesters attempting to protect their own land.

Although tribe spokesman Steve Sitting Bear said 30 people had been pepper-sprayed and six suffered dog bites, Morton County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Donnell Preskey claimed law enforcement had received no reports of protesters being injured, according to the Wall Street Journal.

More photos & video: Native American pipeline protesters attacked by dogs in North Dakota. https://t.co/opaGFmyLxj pic.twitter.com/k6QXYUGtts

— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) September 4, 2016

Preskey also claimed no law enforcement personnel were present when the attack occurred, but video shows a North Dakota State Patrol helicopter hovering overhead while dogs attacked.

Video of the moment of attack has, in fact, been difficult to obtain, since cell reception at the site frequently cuts off in what many suspect is a law enforcement attempt to cover up the company’s vicious quashing of the protest.

Immediately before video of the skirmish cuts out, a panicked protester can be heard screaming, “They’ve got trucks behind us, too!”

Sacred Stone Camp, the water protectors’ defensive encampment, posted a picture of a female security guard holding a choke-chain wearing dog to Facebook with the alarming description, “Yes, that is the blood of peaceful protestors on this dog’s mouth.”

Dogs indiscriminately bit anyone and anything in their path — including a horse — and at one point, in seeming karmic retribution, even turned on their handlers.

One day prior to the violent incident, the Standing Rock Sioux filed court documents stating they found several sites of “significant cultural and historic value” directly in the proposed path of the pipeline — a discovery made only recently when the tribe was finally allowed to survey the area.

According to tribal preservation officer Tim Mentz in court documents cited by the WSJ, burial rock piles and other significant discoveries were found by researchers.

Tragically, Standing Rock Sioux Chairman David Archambault II described in a statement that construction crews had callously removed topsoil in a 150-foot wide area stretching for two miles.

“This demolition is devastating,” Archambault said, as quoted by the WSJ. “These grounds are the resting places of our ancestors. The ancient cairns and stone prayer rings there cannot be replaced. In one day, our sacred land has been turned into hollow ground.”

By the end of August, at least 4,000 protesters had converged on the site to help defend the land from pillaging by construction crews — who, incidentally, were recently revealed by the Army Corps of Engineers not to have obtained the mandatory easement necessary to proceed.

Also in late August, at the behest of North Dakota homeland security Greg Wiltz, state officials removed the demonstrators’ water supply — despite sweltering late summer heat — due to alleged disorderly conduct, including a laser aimed at a surveillance aircraft.

“The gathering here remains 100 percent peaceful and ceremonial as it has from day one,” LaDonna Allard, director of one of the prayer camps said after the removal of water. “We are standing together in prayer … Why is a gathering of Indians so inherently threatening and frightening to some people?”

Indeed, as video from the protest repeatedly proves, demonstrators have remained peaceful, only protecting themselves from brutal force and intimidation by the security firm and law enforcement when no other option but self-defense exists — as in the case of Saturday’s attack.

Despite this evidence, Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier claimed in a statement cited by the WSJ that “individuals crossed onto private property and accosted private security officers with wooden posts and flagpoles […] Any suggestion that today’s event was a peaceful protest, is false.”

Viral video of the violent confrontation — which clearly shows protesters forced to defend themselves from the vicious animals and callous guards — was, of course, glaringly omitted from the Wall Street Journal’s report.

Mainstream media has all but ignored the ongoing protest, despite both its ballooning size and pertinence in the continuing struggle for Native Americans fighting naked government and corporate exploitation.

Challenges to construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline will be ruled upon by a federal judge sometime before September 9.

“This is nothing but repression of our growing movement to protect our water and future generations,” Tara Houska, national campaigns director for Honor the Earth, aptly summarized in August.

As one tribe member described, in a sentiment shared by most protesters, of Saturday’s mercenary attack in a post to Facebook:

“My daughter was bitten by one of the contractor’s vicious dogs today in direct action that once again stopped construction of their evil and immoral pipeline.

“No father has ever been prouder of one of his children then I am tonight for her being wounded battling for the future of her son and my grandson and for your children and your grandchildren.

“She is strong and as determined as ever to be remembered as one of her generation who courageously took a stand to kill their black snakes.”













More photos & video: Native American pipeline protesters attacked by dogs in North Dakota.  http://ow.ly/s0M2303Sjig

And LOTS of videos out there.
I am NOT a fan of " Anonymous", but they have been echoing one of my favorite sayings.... " HISTORY IS REPEATING ITSELF"

Journalist hit with rubber bullet at DAPL protest (VIDEO)

 http://www.rt.com/usa/365400-journalist-dapl-protest-schrode/

A journalist and activist at Standing Rock captured the moment she was shot with a rubber bullet. Protesters of the Dakota Access pipeline had attempted to cross a river for a prayer but were blocked by police.

While filming an interview with a Native American man, Erin Schrode allegedly became a victim of excessive force by police Wednesday. She was interviewing activists protesting the Dakotas Access Pipeline, which they say threatens water used by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

She explained that protesters had tried to cross a river to commence a prayer ceremony when they were blocked off by police in riot gear and a standoff began, the New York Daily News reported. The 25-year-old began talking to a protester who explained the situation.

“Basically what we’re doing is protecting the water. Water protectors, that’s what we’re doing here. All this you see right here, we need to stop it. They’re basically on ACE property, which is the Army Corps of Engineers’ land and they shouldn’t even be there. We have every right, this is a sovereign nation. This is Sovereign people’s land right here,” the activist explained to Schrode on the video.

Suddenly, a bang rings out. Schrode is heard exclaiming, “Ow!”

“I felt a blow of maximum force to my lower back and I had no clue what just happened,” Schrode told the Daily News. She claimed that when she turned around, she saw an officer pointing his rubber bullet gun at her from a boat.

In a Facebook post, Schrode wrote, “I was standing innocently onshore, not making any aggressive gestures, never exchanging a single word with the police who fired at my lower back from their boat.”

She is one of many who have reported being injured in the increasingly contentious face-off between police and protesters at Standing Rock. On Tuesday, protesters reported being hit with mace, pepper spray and rubber bullets.


SEE IT: Journalist shot while on-air at Standing Rock protests -

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/journalist-shot-on-air-standing-rock-protests-article-1.2857929/


Erin Schrode claims she was shot with a rubber bullet while conducting an interview during the Standing Rock protests



Police officers fired rubber bullets and used tear gas as they attempted to disperse protesters against the Dakota Access Pipeline, who gathered on the banks of the Cannonball River on Wednesday. Activists claim that the project threatens drinking water supplies and sacred sites.

"Lakota/Dakota Prayer Song"

http://youtu.be/xflJeA4tVW4/
5:42

"Lakota/Dakota Prayer Song 2"

http://youtu.be/9GPlhvR-OEs/
3:55

 "Amazing Grace Cherokee - PRAYER"
http://youtu.be/hA0b4eZTlrA/
9:33

Oh Great Spirit,
Whose voice I hear in the winds,
And whose breath gives life to all the world,
hear me!
I am small and weak,
I need your strength and wisdom.
Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes
ever behold the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things you have made
and my ears sharp to hear your voice.
Make me wise so that I may understand the
things you have taught my people.
Let me learn the lessons you have hidden
in every leaf and rock.
I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother,
but to fight my greatest enemy – myself.
Make me always ready to come to you with
clean hands and straight eyes.
So when life fades, as the fading sunset
my spirit may come to you
without shame.

Well, have read and I stand by what I said. Maybe others need to know more back ground too. I'm not out to bash the Indians, I understand that their are bad people in any race, but most are good. I just want to point out to the people that think they are all peaceful tree huggers ( as they burn tires ironically made of petroleum) that there is probably more to this than just protecting their water. The oil crosses the river everyday even without a pipeline, and will continue to cross the river no mater what happens. Its just a pipeline is safer than trains ( which have had issues) and trucks that come with their own danger an expense. The Indians are known as warriors. They have a history of fighting, in fact North Dakota State University team was "The Fighting Sioux" til a couple years ago. When you say "History repeating its self" maybe you are talking about the 1975 assassination of 2 FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation by AIM ( American Indian Movement), the alsokilled a female that they thought was an informant. I'm not even going to get into the cases where Indians shoved fish up peoples *****, but you are free to look into it. I do understand the " Indian Givers" The Government that took their land, gave some back, and then took some of that back. Treaties are contracts and can be changed, and yes they have changed, and some new ones have been made. If people are trespassing than can be removed by various ways, and when its a mob it can be vary dangerous. They have known about the pipeline for over two years and had their chance to fight it. Why the Government is now back peddling is beyond me. The Indians are getting some publicity, but for the most part this has not been a big story, but I'm sure they will keep pushing it to get their attention.

 "US VETERANS MAKE A STAND!!" on YouTube

http://youtu.be/LPg9fzuD-MM/
3:53 BpEarthwatch

They began arriving by the hundreds on Friday. As human shields. Some protesting to protect the water and some are protesting 'militarized police', abusing the original people,at tax payers expense, which they claim is unconstitutional.

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" I bled in Iraq, and you are going to  threatening me to shoot me on a bridge in North Dakota?"

___ Mark Sanderson- former Special Forces, solider, out of Texas told CBC (Canada -who was also on there ).

the last I heard the veterans are there to stand with the Indians ... and others against the pipeline ... and the best way to stop all of this is if... President Obama decides to make this a monument ... the pipeline will stop dead in its tracks ... for the good of all ... an those bad climate changers... will go away

The pipeline is already 90% complete,
so I would think they would just reroute it a few miles up the river. President Obama only has a month and a half left, and we know how Trump is going to react to this issue And for the 100% of the population that are climate changers, that's right, every living person has an affect on the "bad climate", good luck having all of them change their ways You understand this pipeline crosses the Mississippi River too? And that affects 100's of thousands of peoples water supply and environment, and I don't hear much coming from that. Just the 8,000 Indians in North Dakota cuz its all about them, looking for attention.

As dollars and donations poured into Standing Rock, beleaguered law enforcement officers shivering on the other side of the line put out a call for support as well, asking for warm hats and gloves, granola bars, energy drinks and soda pop.

Standing Rock activists saw the request on the Morton County Sheriff’s Department, and responded, ferrying crates of supplies north to the sheriff’s office in Mandan on Friday. An officer, clad in riot gear, opened the door and accepted the donation.

“Thanks, guys,” he said.

“We’re going to give them everything they want, except the soda, except the energy drink, because it’s not healthy for them,” said Andre Perez, who traveled from Hawaii to come to Standing Rock. “We’re going to give them water instead, because water is life,”


Standing Rock camp grows ahead of Monday's evacuation deadline


How ironic is this......

"Cuba-Trained Doctors Travel to Standing Rock"

http://youtu.be/34FCMFSGU0k/
1:18

"This is true solidarity"

Standing Rock protesters celebrated Sunday as news broke that construction of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline near their territory has been halted.

Moira Kelley, a spokeswoman for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a federal agency, said in a news release Sunday that the administration will not allow the four-state, $3.8-billion pipeline to be built under Lake Oahe, a Missouri River reservoir near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.

The decision came a day before the government's deadline for the several hundred people at the Oceti Sakowin, or Seven Council Fires, encampment to leave the federal land. But demonstrators say they're prepared to stay, and authorities say they won't forcibly remove them.

Standing Rock protesters celebrate 'big victory' as pipeline construction halted



CANNON BALL, N.D. -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Sunday that it won't grant an easement for the Dakota Access oil pipeline in southern North Dakota, handing a victory to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and its supporters, who argued the project would threaten a water source and cultural sites.

North Dakota's leaders criticized the decision, with Gov. Jack Dalrymple calling it a "serious mistake" that "prolongs the dangerous situation" of having several hundred protesters who are camped out on federal land during cold, wintry weather. U.S. Rep. Kevin Cramer said it's a "very chilling signal" for the future of infrastructure in the United States.

U.S. Army Corps blocks Dakota Access pipeline route