According to the Bismarck Tribune, Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier says that Stein could face charges for vandalism and possibly trespassing.
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“This is not the way to protest”, Kirchmeier added. Stein sprayed “I approve this message” in red paint on the blade of a bulldozer. The Morton County Sheriff’s department has issued warrants of arrest. A court document shows Baraka painted the word “decolonization” on a piece of construction equipment.
Jill Stein, who is now polling around 5%, was protesting with Native Americans in North Dakota to stop the Dakota Access pipeline. American Indian tribes worry a leak in the pipeline would taint their only source of water. We are greatly saddened and extremely bothered to confirm that today, unwarranted violence occurred on private property under easement to Dakota Access Pipeline, resulting in injury to multiple members of our security personnel and several dogs.
Stein has publicly opposed the pipeline in the past and Tuesday tweeted that the issue represents a “human-rights crisis”.
To be sure, Jill Stein has been arrested before during the 2012 campaign, showing that she had an addiction for such things.
In a statement released before charges were filed, Stein said she hoped authorities would “press charges against the real vandalism taking place at the Standing Rock Sioux reservation: the bulldozing of sacred burial sites and the unleashing of vicious attack dogs”. A number of polls have put Stein’s support in the low single digits, positioning her behind Libertarian Gary Johnson and “undecided”. At the Democratic convention in Philadelphia, she repeatedly (and successfully) pitched her candidacy to hundreds of disillusions Bernie Sanders supporters. “It can not be allowed to go forward”.
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The Jill Stein rally will take place September 17 at the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue Campus of Rutgers University – New Brunswick.
