North Dakota pipeline protest prompts more than 80 arrests

[WhiteTara]

Source: washington post

MANDAN, N.D. — More than 80 people protesting the Dakota Access pipeline were arrested Saturday during a demonstration that gathered about 300 people at a construction site in North Dakota and prompted law enforcement officers to use pepper spray.

Morton County sheriff’s office spokesman Rob Keller said authorities were called at 5:20 a.m. Saturday to a pipeline construction site located about five miles from an area where protesters have been camping out for weeks near the confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball rivers. The confrontation between officers and protesters lasted five hours.

The sheriff’s office released a statement, saying officers used pepper spray when some protesters attempted to breach a line that law enforcement officers had formed between demonstrators and construction equipment. The statement said one protester attempted to grab an officer’s pepper spray canister, spraying the officer in the face and blinding him for five minutes.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/north-dakota-pipeline-protest-prompts-more-than-80-arrests/2016/10/22/f76e81d2-98a1-11e6-9cae-2a3574e296a6_story.html

[Bette]

1. This is sick

and I'm sick of this kind of harrassment from the cops. There is such a thing in this country as the first amendment, which guarantees the right to protest. It would be peaceful if the cops didn't lose their tempers and start with the pepper spray. It has always been the cops who break up the "peace" - they cannot stand by and allow people to just 'be'.

[The Sushi Bandit]

2. Where is the MSM???

[Judi Lynn]

3. They are missing their obligation to illuminate this insane treachery against Native Americans. n/t