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Red Warrior put out an all-call for “ALL water warriors around the world to come stand with us, inviting supporters to join us in prayer” during two Weeks of Global Solidarity Actions between September 3 and 17.
Why? Because this is what is happening in response to peaceful protesting:
Opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline, or “water protectors,” were attacked with dogs, pepper spray on Saturday near the site of the pipeline route.
Video streamed live over Facebook showed Dakota Access LLC–employed security guards handling lunging dogs.
Courtesy Red Warrior Camp
Water protectors reported a violent encounter between Dakota Access LLC security guards, who allegedly used attack dogs and pepper spray against them.
Dakota Access pipeline security personnel used dogs to try and stop the water protectors in an action that was streamed live on Facebook. (Photo: Courtesy Red Warrior Camp).
In a statement released in a live-stream on Facebook, Red Warrior Camp leaders said that at about 3pm on Saturday September 3, “water protectors successfully stopped pipeline construction as it reached Hwy. 1806 through nonviolent direct action and mass assembly.”
As they did so, private security guards working for Dakota Access LLC “deployed vicious attack dogs, pepper spray and physical assault against the water protectors,” Red Warrior said. “According to the most recent update, six water protectors were bitten by dogs, a dozen or more pepper sprayed, while others were physically assaulted, including women. A helicopter was photographed flying over the area.
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Sarah Sunshine Manning has an updated story about what is happening at the camps.
Harold Frazier, Cheyenne River Sioux Chair demands answers:
According to many witnesses at the scene, neither state nor county law enforcement officials were at the construction site during the incident. It is extremely suspicious to me that law enforcement became scarce at the exact time when DAPL’s hired guns were planning to attack the water defenders. A press release recently issued by the Morton County Sheriff’s Department insinuates that the peaceful protesters were the provokers of the incident because several individuals allegedly cut a fence and entered the work site. State and local law enforcement officials keep telling the media, without proof, that the protesters are committing unlawful acts. In my opinion unleashing vicious attack dogs on women and children, and spraying dozens of unarmed people simply because they are exercising their constitutional right to assemble, is unlawful.
I am calling on all members of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe to avoid traveling to or doing business in the Mandan-Bismarck area until this crisis is resolved. I fear for my people’s safety. Today’s act of terrorism shows us how desperate DAPL and the State of North Dakota government are to keep things at a status quo. I am concerned about the escalating violence against Natives in that area.
When will Governor Dalrymple step up and meet with Tribal leadership in an open, good faith effort to resolve this conflict? The key to settling this situation is in the hands of North Dakota leadership. I requested a meeting with Governor Dalrymple last week, but as of today has received no response.
Matika Wilbur caught much of this on video (complete story here):
So, how does this work? Are the DA owners able to just hire security and tell them “go beat the shit out of some people”?? At what point is this premeditated felony assault? How are the individuals that are performing the attack indemnified? Are they acting as agents of the police, or the company?
Given the name of the security company, it ought to be possible to identify the thugs and where they live. Is that red truck with the license plate GTK 5721 one of the security company’s trucks? What state is that plate?
Marcus:
Yes.
Betcha it isn’t.
No idea. There are no indemnification restrictions here, thanks to our Gov, and so far, oil companies have gotten out of shit by claiming no employees were doing shit, it was subcontractors. It’s a golden out, blessed by our Gov.
The company, although I don’t know which one. The cops, who are supposedly there to protect and serve all, were nowhere in sight. They were busy looking the other way.
The plate looks like ND, but I can’t really tell. I have no idea about the vehicles, but they look personal to me.
Nope, it seems at least some cops were watching:
That’s from Sarah Sunshine Manning’s article.
That guy in Dallas shot the wrong cops.
The cops were scared of the mercenaries.
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Marcus
No.
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How do slavering-psycho-dogs feel about a handful of finely-ground black pepper
right in the face?
Chigau, the dogs have no free will; they are weapons. It is the hand that wields them that deserves retaliation.
Marcus
Pepper in the doggy-face is to stop the attack, not to provoke a philosophical discussion.
The handlers are welcome to a dose of pepper, too.
The handlers themselves are just trained DOGS. it’s who hired them who deserve public humiliation.
Why would you make your doggies do that?
Are you a psychopath?
Perhaps a lost lawsuit or several, too.
There must be a special place in hell for people who take loving, gentle creatures and turn them into weapons to be used against peaceful people.
DG @ 8:
Yes, and a few lawsuits as well.
After seeing the video, and reading a few other accounts, I have to agree with the idea that the ‘security’ forces were brought in with the intent to incite the protestors.
The initial media reports played right into it, downplaying the wounded protectors and only noting the ‘security’ people who were injured. It didn’t take long for them to get egg on their face though as the video came out showing how wrong those press releases were…..
I admire and salute all the nations in their effort. I haven’t been paid in about six weeks now, but I will contribute what I can next paychek.
After seeing the video, and reading a few other accounts, I have to agree with the idea that the ‘security’ forces were brought in with the intent to incite the protectors.
The initial media reports played right into it, downplaying the wounded protectors and only noting the ‘security’ people who were injured. It didn’t take long for them to get egg on their face though as the video came out showing how wrong those press releases were…..
I admire and salute all the nations in their effort. I haven’t been paid in about six weeks now, but I will contribute what I can next paychek.