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Native American Leaders Decry Increasingly Harsh Treatment of Dakota Access Protesters
View Date:2024-12-25 00:00:43
The tribe at the heart of the contested Dakota Access oil pipeline asked the Department of Justice to step in after law enforcement arrested 127 activists using what the tribe’s chairman called “military tactics.”
“Thousands of persons from around the country, and the world, have come to express their opposition to the pipeline in a peaceful way,” said Dave Archambault II, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, in an Oct 24 letter addressed to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch. “But state and local law enforcement have increasingly taken steps to militarize their presence, to intimidate participants who are lawfully expressing their views, and to escalate tensions and promote fear.”
Archambault’s letter cites the use of aerial surveillance, roadblocks and checkpoints, military vehicles and “strong-arm tactics” such as the “invasive and unlawful strip searches of men and women who have been arrested for misdemeanors.”
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