The pair joined the ongoing protest against the controversial pipeline, known by the acronym DAPL, in North Dakota on Tuesday where their campaign admits they both spray-painted construction equipment alongside tribal activists and environmental allies.
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Her running mate, Ajamu Baraka, reportedly also spray painted equipment, painting “decolonization” on a Caterpillar.
As of late Tuesday, Stein was not arrested or charged in the incident.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe took notice of a decision from North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple to call in the state National Guard to assist state and county police in managing crowds protesting the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline. The tribe is also challenging the pipeline, which is expected to go through four states, in federal court.
Stein vows if she’s elected president, she’d create a new 9/11 Commission not “dominated by members with an interest in protecting the reputation and careers of foreign affairs and intelligence communities”.
“This is the new Keystone pipeline”, Stein said Wednesday. American Indian tribes worry a leak in the pipeline would taint their only source of water.
Dakota Access claims no historical sites were destroyed, and the sheriff’s office said private security workers were physically assaulted with fence posts and flagpoles. For Stein, who probably hopes that there’s no such thing as bad publicity, that required vandalism and being arrested on misdemeanor criminal charges.
The photo was captioned: “The Dakota Access Pipeline is vandalism on steroids”.
The tribe won some reprieve from construction work Tuesday, when U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered a stop for about 20 miles of the pipeline until he ruled on the tribe’s broader challenge.
The $3.8 billion pipeline is to carry oil from western North Dakota to IL. He said that around 25 law enforcement officials arrived to the protest site and found people on horses, wearing masks and goggles and carrying hatchets.
While a North Dakota judge seems to be taking Jill Stein’s alleged criminal behavior pretty seriously, the candidate herself doesn’t seem to believe she did anything worth having a warrant issued in her name.
Since April over 3,000 people have been protesting about the pipeline.
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In an 80-minute appearance, the second-time presidential candidate also courted environmentalists and political newcomers who opposed the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline before it was rejected a year ago.
