Things just got serious in North Dakota, and if they continue at the rate they’re going, they may get very, very ugly as well.
For the past month or so, the nation’s attention has been captured by the bands of protestors gathering near the Standing Rock Indian reservation. Claiming that a planned pipeline would contaminate the water the resident Native Americans drink, the demonstrators have gathered in support of them and urged construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline to cease. Supporters of the pipeline, however, maintain that it doesn’t actually run through the reservation and that a number of similar lines already exist in the area.
Regardless of where one stands on the issue, the possibility for escalation between the protestors and law enforcement should give anyone who considers themselves concerned with justice pause and make them pray for a peaceful resolution.
Learn more about law enforcement’s response to the Standing Rock protests on the next page:
Ass holes
Like the old days, Federal government killed and starved the Native Americans then, now they are repeating history. They just never change, do they ?
Mike Thornton please !! That’s HISTORY!! How come so many have left the REZ !!! I have a friend who is Native American. He doesn’t live there anymore !
It couldn’t be that it’s called dumbing down the tribe ? He worked for the railroad and retired from it !! They cannot do the same ? Here are no locks on the teepee. So you don’t believe they’re capable of living in today’s world ?
Man take about low expectations!!!
Jacob Roy …they were lucky they got anything.
Not on sacred or Indian land.
They didn’t choose to live there. After the government took all their land that’s what they got stuck with.
Blockade? This is ridiculous. Stand down on these poor people, let Obama re-route the pipeline and go home to your families and celebrate Christmas. Stand down and go home today!
Terry Howard-Prince they choose to live there. They lost the war !! Plain and simple !! Get over it !!!
POLICE THERE ARE TURNING INTO PURE EVIL!
It’s really sad that “We the People” never figured out what “Ruby Ridge” and Waco was about. It was the first two assaults on the american people by our government who wanted to see what “We the People” would do if attacked. Just like they figured and counted on, “We the People” did nothing.