Sheriff’s Office Removes Protesters From Dakota Access Pipeline Site [View all]
Source: Huff Post.
Authorities in North Dakota began removing Dakota Access Pipeline opponents on Thursday morning from a protest camp they’d built on private land.
The police action escalated into conflict as the Morton County Sheriff’s Department claimed that protesters set fire to a bridge and to tires left on the highway.
The group of about 200 people had been occupying land slated for the controversial pipeline since Sunday.
The sheriff’s department announced it was also dismantling a roadblock set up by the group of Native Americans and environmental activists. Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said in a statement that he was compelled to act because the protesters had refused to leave the site, known as “Cannonball Ranch,” on Wednesday.
Officers were dressed in riot gear and some carried arms, The Associated Press reported. Authorities moved in with trucks, police cars, Humvees and buses, the AP said, while helicopters and a fixed-wing airplane monitored from above.
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