Stein was part of a group protesting the Dakota Access pipeline and spray-painted construction equipment, the Morton County Sheriff’s Department said.
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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.
“The state of North Dakota may charge me with vandalism for painting a bulldozer”, she wrote in a follow-up post on Facebook.
Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein has been charged with trespassing and mischief linked to a protest over a North Dakota pipeline.
As well as damage to sacred sites, protesters are also concerned that the $3.8 billion pipeline could affect the drinking water of the nearby Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Reservation, according to NPR.
The possibility she’ll be charged with vandalism and trespassing comes after Stein, a physician, briefly joined in conspiracy theories on Twitter about Clinton’s health following a coughing fit Clinton had recently on the campaign trail. The DAPL is a $3.8 billion project, meant to transport crude oil from Montana and North Dakota’s Bakken Formation to oil refineries in the Gulf Coast.
Members of the tribe met outside the steps of the Washington, D.C., courthouse August 25 to protest the construction of the pipeline, which they say would wreak havoc on their native lands and cause widespread water contamination.
The pipeline, being built by a Texas-based company, is to carry oil from western North Dakota to IL.
“The incident is actually still ongoing as we speak”, Kirchmeier said Tuesday afternoon. At an altercation at the site on Saturday, three private guards were injured.
Stein has publicly opposed the pipeline in the past and Tuesday tweeted that the issue represents a “human-rights crisis”.
As protests have grown more heated in recent weeks, police and pipeline opponents also have disagreed over who has been provoking the clashes, which erupted in violence over the weekend.
With a court decision looming, and the National Guard on hand, a tribe protesting an oil pipeline from North Dakota said it was calling for peace. She said the bulldozer she painted was one of several that “were used to assault the ancestral grave sites of the Standing Rock Sioux nation”.
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Stein says the real outrage should be reserved for what she calls the big money corruption of the American political system, and says polls show she deserves a place at the upcoming presidential debates.
