Did the Dakota Access Pipeline Company Deliberately Destroy Sacred Sioux Burial Sites?

[G_j]

http://m.democracynow.org/stories/16591

Only hours after lawyers representing the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe filed evidence in federal court documenting how some of the Dakota Access pipeline’s proposed route would go through a sacred burial site, the company unexpectedly began working on that very site. As bulldozers cleared earth, hundreds of Native Americans from many different tribes rushed onto the construction site to protect the sacred site. In response, the company’s security forces attacked the Native Americans with dogs and pepper spray. Now the tribe’s lawyer is requesting an emergency temporary restraining order to halt construction on this area of the pipeline. For more, we speak with Jan Hasselman, staff attorney with Earthjustice, who is representing the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe at today’s hearing in federal court. And we speak with Dave Archambault, the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

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Filed under: Native American, Natural Gas & Oil Drilling

Watch: https://publish.dvlabs.com/democracynow/360/dn2016-0906.mp4?start=2210&end=2984

[Mike__M]

1. Where are they?

Thousands of natives, representing more than a hundred nations, including the highest-ranking elected officials from some of those nations, converge in a historic gathering that brings together longtime enemies in a common cause, and the media . . . is not there.
Organized acts of violence against American citizens . . . political candidates say nothing.

[HassleCat]

2. I guess they could be that stupid.

The penalties for disturbing cultural heritage sites are huge. But they might think they could go in and erase any evidence to make prosecution impossible. Stupid thinking, but it's been done before.

[WDIM]

3. where are the arrest of the dog handlers?

That was assault and battery with a deadly weapon. We the people should be outraged at this injustice. The M$M ignores it.

[G_j]

4. ignored also by both presidential candidates and

the POTUS apparently..

[geardaddy]

5. That's exactly what they are doing. They're trying to destroy evidence.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028147699

[annabanana]

6. They ABSOLUTELY did!

Their work site was not near the gravesites. As soon as they found out where they were, the bulldozers were moved to that very spot. We're talking a lot of land here.

[rdking647]

7. according to the local sheriff

the local sheriff doesnt agree they were peaceful
Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said in a statement that “individuals crossed onto private property and accosted private security officers with wooden posts and flag poles.”

“Any suggestion that today’s event was a peaceful protest, is false,” his statement said

[G_j]

8. the videos do not support this

the activists have been committed to nonviolence from day one! The sheriff is deliberately lying.

[Maru Kitteh]

9. Kicking!