South Dakota: Don't Send Cops to #NoDAPL Protest at Standing Rock

On October 28, Senator Bernie Sanders sent a letter to President Obama requesting that he intervene to protect Native Americans peacefully protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline. [1] At least 140 people were arrested at the construction site in Cannon Ball, N.D., last Wednesday after police moved in with tanks and riot gear, using sound cannons, pepper spray and rubber bullets. Hundreds of Native American protectors have gathered at the site since April to protest the pipeline’s construction on land they claim is tribal under the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie.

States which have recently deployed personnel against the Standing Rock protests include Wisconsin, Indiana, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, and Nebraska, according to an October 23 press release from the Morton County Sheriff's Department. [2] Some Minnesota elected officials called on Minnesota authorities not to send police officers to the Dakota Access Pipeline protest at Standing Rock after it was revealed that the Hennepin County Sheriff had done so. [3]

Urge Governor Daugaard and South Dakota legislators to discourage South Dakota law enforcement agencies from sending police officers to the #NoDAPL protest at Standing Rock by signing our petition.

References:
1. http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/obama-protect-native?r_by=1135580
2. http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/10/27/emergency-assistance-law-dakota-access-pipeline-out-state-cops
3. http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/minnesota-dont-send-cops?r_by=1135580