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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmy Goodman arrest warranted issue: Reporter who filmed dog attacks on Dakota pipeline protesters
http://www.wdaz.com/news/north-dakota/4112656-reporter-who-documented-guard-dogs-charged-trespassing-pipeline-protestOutrageous. Is there a legal, constitutional or journalism rights expert here? Are these charges a violation of 1st amendment freedom of press rights?
Has any other journalist been arrested for trespassing to cover a breaking story where coverage could not be obtained any other way? Her footage was important proof of the brutality of the security guards' attacks on Native Americans.
<A reporter from Democracy Now! who documented security personnel with guard dogs working for Dakota Access Pipeline is facing criminal trespassing charges in Morton County.
Authorities have issued an arrest warrant for Amy Goodman of New York for a Class B misdemeanor, according to court documents.
Goodman, a reporter for the independent news program, can be seen on news footage from Sept. 3 documenting the clash between protesters and private security personnel with guard dogs at a Dakota Access construction site, including footage showing people with bite injuries and a dog with blood on its mouth. >
Rex
(65,616 posts)Sounds like a bogus charge thrown out there to distract from the real issue.
malaise
(269,157 posts)We've got your back
womanofthehills
(8,764 posts)The oil, gas and pipeline taxes are always for the schools - somehow they think it makes it better.
The pipeline will translate into millions in state and local revenues during the construction phase and an estimated $129 million annually in property and income taxes.
The pipeline will generate an estimated $50 million annually in property taxes and nearly $74 million in sales taxes to the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois for services to support schools, roads, emergency services and more.
This is from Energy Transfer's web page
http://www.daplpipelinefacts.com/
Red Mountain
(1,737 posts)They'll use this source to cut taxes elsewhere.
The schools never see the windfall.
womanofthehills
(8,764 posts)Pipeline owners sue protesters -
The protesters have created and will continue to create a risk of bodily injury and harm to Dakota Access employees and contractors, as well as to law enforcement personnel and other individuals at the construction site, the company wrote in court papers.
Archambault was among several protesters charged last week with disorderly conduct or criminal trespass at the construction site near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation that straddles the North Dakota-South Dakota border.
http://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2016/08/15/pipeline-owners-sue-protesters/88808264/
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,473 posts)Liberty Belle
(9,535 posts)He was sitting in a McDonald's restaurant at the time:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/08/10/washington-post-reporter-charged-with-trespassing-interfering-with-a-police-officer/?utm_term=.4a200892d48d
I checked elsewhere and the charges are still pending. This seems like a pattern of press intimidation. The Justice Dept. should step in both places.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)I think this will not turn out the way they planned.
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)http://www.legis.nd.gov/cencode/t12-1c32.pdf#nameddest=12p1-32-01
It's a bogus charge.
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)She knew the charge was coming long before she got out of the vehicle. It is just a business expense for her.