Republican candidate Donald Trump holds 39.2 percent while his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton is at 41.3.
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Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein is accused of committing a criminal act Tuesday after she spray-painted a bulldozer at a construction site for the Dakota Access Pipeline.
On Wednesday, following through on an earlier threat, Morton County sheriff’s department charged both Stein and Baraka with misdemeanor criminal trespass and criminal mischief.
Stein joined the almost 100 protesters stationed at the planned construction site and participated in the spray-painting of construction equipment.
On Twitter, Stein mused, “State of ND may charge me with vandalism”.
If completed, the 1,172-mile pipeline would carry 470,000 barrels of crude oil a day from North Dakota to IL. Angry protesters faced off with construction workers at the site on Saturday.
President John Yellow Bird Steele sent a letter to Lynch on Thursday saying protesters have been attacked by private security with guard dogs and that racial profiling is occurring.
Some machinery was vandalized and two protesters tied themselves to construction equipment during Tuesday’s demonstration, according to officials. The doctor writes, “I approve this message”.
The pipeline site has become a hotbed for protests from Native American tribes and environmental activists. These are things, everything you’ve been hearing on social media that this is, that this has been peaceful, that they want to do it by prayer; this is not the way to do this. “Will they charge the oil company that razed sacred burial grounds?”
It was go, then stop, for the Dakota Access Pipeline on Friday.
Dave Archambault II, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, told CNN affiliate KFYR that it will appeal. Authorities also said they pulled back Tuesday from responding to a report of 150 to 200 protesters, some with hatchets and knives, gathered at a building area on private land because they determined it wasn’t safe to respond.
Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said that he is seeking to file charges against Stein for spray painting the construction vehicle, though the 2016 long-shot was not arrested during the protest.
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Morton County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Rob Keller said the warrant has been filed and if authorities were to come across Stein, “they would arrest her”, per NBC News.
