The American Civil Liberties Union sent its members a message about the Standing Rock protest. Here is what ACLU said:
On a North Dakota prairie, nonviolent protesters are being confronted by police in riot gear with armored military vehicles, automatic rifles, sonic weapons, concussion grenades, attack dogs, pepper spray, and beanbag bullets.
The NoDAPL water protectors at Standing Rock are being treated like prisoners of war simply for protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline. Some are being strip-searched and detained in structures resembling dog kennels. Police are even hooding detainees and forcing them to remain in jail cells.
I’ve read that the reason the pipeline was routed through Sioux land in the first place was to protect the water supply of Bismarck.
Will this country will ever stop mistreating its indigenous people?
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