PROTESTERS AT THE DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE CONTINUE TO BE MET
WITH INSANE VIOLENCE AND OUR VERY OWN JORDAN SHERIDAN
REPORTS AND SHOWS US EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE DEALING WITH.
TAKE A LOOK.
SO WHERE YOU ARE SEEING THE POLICE, WHETHER IT IS STATE
POLICE OR DOUBLE SECURITY, THEY ARE ON TOP OF THE GIANT
MOUNTAIN.
THAT IS WHERE THEIR ANCESTORS ARE VERY.
THE NATIVE AMERICANS.
THE NATIVES WANT TO PEACEFULLY HOLD A PRAYER CIRCLE
ON THE OTHER BANK.
THIS IS LAND THAT IS THEIRS PER THE LARAMIE
TREATY.
THIS IS A SACRED BURIAL SITE.
ON MULTIPLE LEVELS, WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE IS A LEGAL.
THIS IS A MILITARIZED POLICE FORCE UP AGAINST A
NON-ARMED PEACEFUL PRAYERFUL PEOPLE.
I WAS ONE OF THE FIRST ONES IN THE WATER.
THEY MACED US AND
IT HURTS.
SHAME ON YOU.
I FEEL LIKE I'M WATCHING THE SALT MINE PROCESS WITH GANDHI.
THESE PEOPLE ARE IN THE WATER, THEY ARE FREEZING TO DEATH.
THIS WATER IS NOT WARM.
I CAN FILL MY LEGS I HAD TO GET OUT.
SAVE OUR WATER.
THEY ARE TRYING TO DISPERSE WOMEN AND CHILDREN BECAUSE
THERE IS A FEAR THAT THE COPS THAT ARE COMING IN ON THOSE
BOATS OVER THERE HAVE ACTUAL BULLETS.
THE POLICE ARE COMMITTING GENOCIDE.
I SEE A SNIPER LAYING RIGHT THERE ON THE REGISTRAR YOU
CAN SEE HIS RIFLE.
THE SNIPER IS NOT HOLDING RUBBER BULLETS.
I GUARANTEE YOU.
THESE PEOPLE FROM THE NORTH DAKOTA POLICE FORCE IN THE
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT HAS LOST LEGITIMACY IN EVERY
RESPECT TODAY.
PRESIDENT OBAMA NEEDS TO STEP IN AND INTERVENE BEFORE WE
HAVE LOSS OF LIFE ON EITHER SIDE.
YOU GUYS EVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS?
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY INSANE.
THESE PEOPLE ARE JUST TRYING TO PROTECT THEIR FAMILIES AND
THEIR WATER.
IS LIKE A ROW OF DOMINOES.
YOU HAVE ONE MACED OVER HERE AND ONE OVER HERE AND ONE OVER HERE.
ARE YOU ALL RIGHT?
WE NEED A MEDIC.
DID THEY GIVE YOU WARNING THAT THEY WERE GOING TO MACEO?
NOT AT ALL.
I HAD MY HANDS UP.
THE GUY CAME AND SPRAYED US.
THEY SPREAD ME IN THE FACE FOR SIX OR SEVEN SECONDS AND I
JUST DID THERE UNTIL THEY WERE DONE.
WHEN SHE FEEL THE POWER OF THESE PEOPLE, IT BRINGS TEARS TO
YOUR EYES.
THESE PEOPLE ARE FIGHTING FOR HUMAN RIGHT.
A VIDEO LIKE THAT IS OBVIOUSLY INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT
BECAUSE IT SHOWS YOU EXACTLY WHAT IS HAPPENING.
THEY ARE IN
THE WATER.
THEY POSE NO THREAT THAT THEY ARE PRACTICING THEIR
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND PROTESTING AND THEY ARE MET WITH
THAT TYPE OF VIOLENCE.
PEPPER SPRAY, RUBBER BULLETS ñ.
EVERY ARTICLE I'VE SEEN IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA, WHAT
LITTLE ARTICLES IíVE SEEN START WITH THE IDEA THAT THERE
MIGHT HAVE BEEN VIOLENCE FROM THE PROTESTERS AND HENCE THE
COPS HAD TO REACT.
BUT WHEN THERE IS VIOLENCE FROM THE COPS,
THERE IS NEVER AN ARTICLE ABOUT IT.
THE ARTICLES NEVER START
WITH THE COPS CAME IN HEAVILY MILITARIZED AND STARTED FIRING
BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE HAPPENED.
WE HAVE IT ON TAPE RIGHT THERE.
THERE IS NO THREAT FROM THE PROTESTERS AT ALT.
WHAT POSSIBLE
HARM IS THERE OF THEM BEING IN THE WATER?
THE COPS ARE NOT
TRYING TO REMOVE THEM FROM THE WATER.
THEY DON'T HAVE TO DO THEY ARE NOT GOING ON THE LAND, SO
WHY DO YOU HAVE TO FIRE MAY SET THEM?
BECAUSE THEY ARE AN INCONVENIENCE.
YOU KNOW WHY?
BECAUSE THEY WANT TO.
THEY ARE LIKE I GOT
DRESSED UP TODAY AS A STUDENT STORM TROOPER, IT WOULD BE SUCH
A BUZZ KILL IF I DON'T GET TO STORM TROOP.
IF THEY WERE
PROTECTING SOMETHING IMPORTANT THAT WAS CENTRAL TO ALL
AMERICANS AND WHAT YOU GUYS DOING?
YOU ARE GOING TO TAKE
OVER FEDERAL IN IS IT YOURS?
ALL RIGHT, THAT IS THE BUNDY
MILITIA.
THEN YOU SAY WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO?
THIS IS ALL IN
SERVICE FOR PRIVATE PROFITS FOR PRIVATE CORPORATION.
ONE THAT
IS A HALF A MILE FROM THE RIVER THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS TOLD
THEM THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DRILL IN YET, BUT THE POLICE ARE
FACING TOWARD THE CORPORATION SAYING WAIT A MINUTE, WE HAVE TO
MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE NOT IN VIOLATION OF A GOVERNMENT ORDER
HERE.
THEY FACE THE CITIZENS AND FIRE 1ST.
IT'S ALSO REALLY INTERESTING HOW POWER CAN COMPLETELY SKEW
YOUR MIND IN TERMS OF WHAT YOU SHOULD AND SHOULDN'T FIGHT FOR.
THOSE COPS THAT ARE FIRING AT THESE PROTESTERS THAT ARE
FIGHTING BACK AGAINST THESE PROTESTERS IN SUCH A VICIOUS WAY
ARE NOT PART OF THE CORPORATION.
THEY ARE PART OF THE SAME
SOCIOECONOMIC GROUP THAT IS BEING SCREWED OVER BY THE SAME
SYSTEM.
WHEN DO WE GET THE PROFITS?
WHEN YOU BUILD THE DAKOTA ACCESS
PIPELINE IF YOU BUILD IT ARE YOU GOING TO SHARE ALL THE PROFITS
WITH THE COPS LET ALONE US THE CITIZENS?
NO YOU AREN'T EVEN
THOUGH YOU DID EMINENT DOMAIN TO GET SOME OF THAT LAND, EVEN
THOUGH YOU ARE GOING TO JOHN TO THAT RIVER.
YOU ARE NOT GOING
TO SHARE WITH US.
YOU'RE NOT GOING TO SHARE WITH THE COPS.
AUGUSTINE THAN THAT.
ARE YOU EVEN GOING TO PAY YOUR FAIR
SHARE OF TAXES FROM THE PROFITS YOU MAKE FROM THAT PIPELINE?
OF
COURSE NOT.
THIS IS THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF A SYSTEM THAT DOESN'T
WORK FOR US, IT WORKS FOR CORPORATIONS.
YOU SEE SOMETHING
LIKE THAT WE HAVE ACTUAL PROPERTY OWNERS HAVING THEIR
PROPERTY MESSED WITH REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT THEY OWN IT.
THAT IS THE CRAZY PART.
WE TALK ABOUT THE MILITIA MEN AND HOW
THEY ARE PROTESTING THE USE OF FEDERAL LAND THAT BELONGS TO
EVERYONE.
THEY ARE NOT MET WITH VIOLENCE.
THEY ARE ACTUALLY
ARMED AND THEY ARE NOT MET WITH VIOLENCE.
THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE
NOT ARMED, THEY ARE PEACEFUL, AND SOME OF THEM ACTUALLY OWN
THE LAND AND THEY HAVE THEIR RELATIVES BURIED IN THIS LAND.
I WOULD ARGUE THAT THEY HAVE A BETTER CASE IN THE MILITIAMEN
BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER.
ONCE A CORPORATION GETS INVOLVED, THEY WILL HAVE
THEIR WAY AND THAT IS IT.
THE MILITIAMEN HAD WEAPONS AND ON VIDEO WERE SAYING WE WILL
KILL ANY GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL THAT WILL COME HERE.
CAN YOU
IMAGINE THE WATER PROTECTOR SAID THAT?
THAT HEAVILY MILITARIZED
POLICE HAD AN AMERICAN ñ A NATIVE AMERICAN ON POLICE ON
TAPE SAYING THAT WOULD KILL POLICE?
SEND IN THE BULLDOZERS,
THE HUMVEES, THEY WOULD ROLL OVER THEM.
IN OREGON WHEN THE
BUNDY GUYS TOOK OVER THE FEDERAL PROPERTY, 41 DAYS UNTIL THE COPS
DID SOMETHING.
THESE GUYS ARE TRYING TO PROTECT WATER FOR ALL
OF US.
ROLL THEM OVER.
WHERE IS THE MACE?
THE RUBBER BULLETS?
LET'S START FIRING.
THE CORPORATIONS HAVE TO GET PAID.
PRIVATIZE THE GAINS, SOCIALIZE THE LOSSES.
IF THE PIPELINE
LINKS AND GETS AND ALL THE WATER, THAT IS YOUR LOSS.
THAT
IS ALL THE CITIZENS LOST.
I JUST SOCIALIZED ALL MY LOSSES BUT I PRIVATIZE THE GAINS.
I KEEP ALL THOSE.
I PHILLY 2016 MADE IT CRYSTAL CLEAR THAT THE GOVERNMENT
DOESN'T REALLY CARE TOO MUCH ABOUT HER DRINKING WATER.
INDEED.
BY THE WAY THE NEXT TIME YOU GET AN INTERVIEW WITH OBAMA, I
HATE TO KEEP COMING BACK TO THIS, BUT WHEN HE SAYS IT'LL BE
PEACEFUL AS LONG AS THE WATER PROTECTORS DON'T GET VIOLENT AND
AS LONG AS THE AUTHORITIES DON'T OVERSTEP THEIR BOUNDS.
AS SOON
AS HE SAYS IT GO LET ME SHOW YOU THIS VIDEO.
SHOW HIM THREE OR
FOUR OR FIVE OF THEM AND SAY WHAT YOU THINK IS GOING ON?
YOU
THINK THIS IS A PROBLEM?
WHERE DO YOU SEE THE VIOLENCE?
WHEN
YOU SEE IT, LET ME KNOW.
TELL ME IF YOU SEE ONE SIDE IS OVERSTEPPING THE LINE AND
ONE SIDE IS SAYING I LOVE YOU BEFORE GETTING SPRAYED IN
THE FACE FOR SIX OR SEVEN SECONDS.
THE GHOST OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POINT.
FOR ALL THE
PEOPLE WHO ARE IN POWER, STATE VIOLENCE NEVER COUNTS.
WHEN THE
STATE SAYS I'M GOING TO STEAMROLL YOU, RESCUE, MACEO,
FIRE UPON YOU, IT DOESN'T COUNT.
THAT IS NONVIOLENCE.
IF YOU
SAY HEY, DON'T GET VIOLENT.
YOU HAVE A PRAYER STICK, DON'T GET
VIOLENT.
YOUR PROTEST ITEM, DON'T GET VIOLENT DIPOLE THAT
DOESN'T WORK AS WE SAW YESTERDAY, THERE IS A GUY WITH A
BANDANNA WHO WORKED FOR THAT TO COULD ACCESS PIPELINE, THE
CORPORATION INVOLVED, WITH A RIFLE.
HE WENT INSIDE WITH THE
PROTESTERS.
LOOKS LIKE AN INSTIGATOR LOOKING TO SAY HEY
THERE IS VIOLENCE COMING OVER HERE FROM THE PROTESTERS THOUGHT
THEY CAUGHT HIM.
THEY HAD AN ID THAT WE HAVE IT ON VIDEO.
HE
HAS ID FROM THE CORPORATION AND HIS CAR IS REGISTERED TO THE
CORPORATION.
WHEN THEY DO THE VIOLENCE, IT DOES NOT COUNT.
WHEN THE STATE DOES THE VIOLENCE IT DOESN'T COUNT, BUT IF YOU
PROTEST, THAT LOOKS LIKE VIOLENCE TO ME.
BECAUSE IT IS
VIOLENCE TO THEIR BOTTOM LINE.
YOU MIGHT HAVE DELAYED THE
PIPELINE FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS IN OUR INTEREST COSTS ARE RUNNING.
YOU'VE CAUSED US A COUPLE OF DOLLARS.
WE HAVE TO CALL YOU
VIOLENT.
LET'S TALK ABOUT ALL THE VIOLENCE INCLUDING THE ONES
OF THE GOVERNMENT IN THIS CASE IS STARTED.
WHAT HAPPENED TO
DON'T TREAD ON ME?