North Dakota law enforcement deployed tear gas and water hoses against hundreds of activists on Sunday night, during a tense bridge standoff amid ongoing protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Dakota Access pipeline: the who, what and why of the Standing Rock protests Read more“They were attacked with water cannons,” said LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, a Standing Rock Sioux tribe member and founder of the Sacred Stone camp. A spokesman for the sheriffs department said that law enforcement was spraying water because protesters were lighting fires on and around the bridge. Members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe established the first of several “spiritual camps” on the banks of the Missouri River in April. Pipeline construction is almost completed in North Dakota, but the company building it, Energy Transfer Partners, still lacks a final permit to drill under the river.

Source: The Guardian November 21, 2016 05:08 UTC