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More Than 140 #NoDAPL Water Protectors Arrested Overnight
Police and National Guard troops arrested more than 140 water protectors near a Dakota Access Pipeline construction site in Cannon Ball, N.D., on Thursday. The Morton County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement that authorities had arrested 141 protesters by midnight local time after a more than six-hour standoff, NBC News reports. As previously reported…
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Report: More Than 100 Militarized Police Raid #NoDAPL Resistance Camp
Hundreds of militarized police were deployed Thursday to a resistance camp built by Native American water protectors in the path of the proposed $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline in Cannonball, N.D. Democracy Now! reports that photos and multiple videos posted to Facebook Live show over 100 officers in riot gear—flanked by multiple mine-resistant ambush-protected military…