Let's remember to pray for not only the safety of our sisters and brothers at the camps and on the front lines, but also for the police and politicians involved in this, that their hearts and minds open to the awareness of what they are really doing, and that they be filled with understanding and compassion. -
Two Eagles
CENSORED NEWS: NOW! Standing Rock: Water Protectors Running, Surrounded, Arrests Underway Sat. Oct. 22, 2016
North Dakota Police ‘Out Of Control’ In Crackdown On Dakota Access Pipeline Protests
STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION, North Dakota — As reports of police abuse at Dakota Access Pipeline protests accumulate, a civil liberties NGO warns that activists’ constitutional rights are under attack.
“In Standing Rock, the cops are out of control,” warned
Cooper Brinson, staff attorney at Civil Liberties Defense Center, in a report published on Thursday.
Citing reports of humiliation, beatings by police, and unnecessary strip-searches of arrestees, Brinson wrote:
“The actions of police against the land and water protectors at Standing Rock are depraved, abusive, and disgraceful. They are exceedingly disrespectful and radically humiliating to the people who have occupied this land since time immemorial.”
Brinson reported that police have confiscated sacred tribal drums and tools used by Native American journalists.
On Oct. 17, a North Dakota judge dismissed criminal
charges against Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman, but several journalists still face charges for
reporting on Dakota Access Pipeline protests. Four members of the
Unicorn Riot media collective are charged with misdemeanors, and three other journalists are facing felony charges, including
Emmy-winning documentarian Deia Schlosberg, who could receive a maximum penalty of 45 years behind bars on three felony charges.
North Dakota Police ‘Out Of Control’ In Crackdown On Dakota Access Pipeline Protests