‘All-Out War’ in North Dakota as Police Arrest 141 Water Protectors

by Nadia Prupis, staff writer

Common Dreams | 28 October, 2016

Police descended on protest camps with pepper spray and armored tanks. (Photo: AP)

Police arrested 141 people in North Dakota on Thursday, moving in with pepper spray and armored tanks on Native American water protectors and other activists who for months have waged resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).Tara Houska, an Ojibwe attorney and director of the rights group Honor the Earth, toldDemocracy Now! on Friday that the raid was an act of “all-out war…waged on Indigenous protectors.”