Sentences with phrase «peaceful water protectors»
2,000 veterans are scheduled to arrive in North Dakota to establish what they call a «human shield» to protect the thousands of peaceful Water Protectors from police brutality.
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On a GoFundMe page, organizers say they are «calling for [their] fellow veterans to assemble as a peaceful, unarmed militia at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation... and defend the water protectors from assault and intimidation at the hands of the militarized police force and DAPL security.»
Law enforcement and private security officers armed with rubber bullets, water cannons, and dogs have clashed with peaceful protesters at the reservation in North Dakota, where Native demonstrators known as water protectors have sought to delay, and ultimately redirect or derail, construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline, which is currently slated to run near the reservation.
New evidence leaked over the weekend proved what many water protectors already suspected: private security and local police used surveillance and other counter-terrorism measures against their peaceful resistance of the Dakota Access Pipeline on Standing Rock Sioux land.