PhotoLaw enforcement officials in North Dakota and protesters opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline clashed in below-freezing weather on Sunday night, as hundreds of demonstrators were pushed back from a bridge by water cannons. Rob Keller, a spokesman for the department, told The Bismark Tribune that water was being used for crowd control, adding that water cannons had also been used to douse the fires. Late last month, tensions boiled over at a protest camp near Backwater Bridge when law enforcement officials forced demonstrators out of the area. Reports coming out of the conflict have been highly contested, with law enforcement officials and protesters leveling substantive accusations of violence at each other. Advertisement Continue reading the main storySenator Sanders also reposted a tweet that said that law enforcement officials were spraying Native Americans with water cannons in 26-degree weather.

Source: New York Times November 21, 2016 17:10 UTC