UNL student presents 29,000 signatures to Ricketts demanding that he bring home state troopers...
Source: Omaha World Herald
By Joe Duggan
LINCOLN — Hours after protesters and authorities clashed over an oil pipeline in North Dakota, activists on Monday demanded that Nebraska’s governor pull state troopers out of a mutual aid deployment.
A reported 29,000 people signed two online petitions calling for the return of 11 Nebraska State Patrol troopers assigned to help quell an organized protest over the Dakota Access pipeline. Gov. Pete Ricketts authorized the mission to assist North Dakota under a multistate emergency management compact.
The governor refused to back away from his commitment Monday, saying Nebraska will continue to support “law and order.”
“I recognize the concerns of the Standing Rock Sioux and environmental activists, but they are trespassing and attempting to forcibly stop construction of a permitted pipeline,” Ricketts said Monday in a prepared statement.
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