Anti-pipeline protesters arrested at North Dakota shopping mall
Source: Reuters
Sat Nov 26, 2016 | 2:22am EST
By Terray Sylvester | BISMARCK, N.D.
More than 30 activists protesting plans to run an oil pipeline beneath a lake near a North Dakota Indian reservation were arrested on Friday at a retail mall during a rally timed to coincide with the busiest shopping day of the year.
The rally was held at the main shopping center of North Dakota's capital city on "Black Friday" in a bid to draw more attention to a pipeline project that critics say poses a threat to water resources and sacred Native American sites.
The demonstrators, including members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, walked into the Kirkwood Mall in downtown Bismarck and formed a prayer circle just inside the entrance, defying demands by mall management that they leave the premises.
About 100 protesters gathered at the mall at shortly before 1 p.m. and at least 33 people were taken into custody for trespassing on private property after they disregarded repeated orders to disperse, police said.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-north-dakota-pipeline-idUSKBN13L00C
Ya think the mall and cops would have treated a white Christian prayer circle the same way? If you do, then there's something I haven't mentioned here before: I'm a rich Nigerian princess, and.....
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