The Green Party candidate for president has been charged with criminal trespass after being accused of vandalism at an oil pipeline protest in North Dakota.
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Stein was part of a group protesting the Dakota Access pipeline and spray-painted construction equipment, the Morton County Sheriff’s Department said. A court document shows Baraka painted the word “decolonization” on a piece of construction equipment.
As of late Tuesday, Stein was not arrested or charged in the incident.
The Standing Rock Sioux tribe also said the Dakota Access Pipeline developer “desecrated and destroyed” some of its “historically, culturally, and religiously important” sites.
On Wednesday, the retired physician and Highland Park native tweeted out a picture of herself spray painting a bulldozer at an oil pipeline protest in North Dakota.
Stein said Friday in Chicago that scheduling is the issue.
Scoring national airtime has been a focus for Stein’s campaign as well as that of Libertarian Gary Johnson, who will also appear on Nebraskans’ ballots in the November 8 general election.
The charges could be either trespassing or vandalism, though its not certain whether it’d be a felony or misdemeanor charge. First the Commission on Presidential Debates refused to let her participate in the presidential debates; now a warrant has been issued for her arrest.
The Standing Rock Tribe’s lawyers are working to persuade a federal judge to withdraw permits for the 1,100-mile pipeline, which could shuttle almost 500,000 barrels of Bakken shale oil throughout the Southwest.
Both of the charges filed against Stein in North Dakota were misdemeanors. On 6 September 2016, a federal judge sided with the Sioux, at least preliminarily, and granted their emergency request to halt construction on a segment of the pipeline in North Dakota.
The pipeline site has become a hotbed for protests from Native American tribes and environmental activists.
According to the Morton County Sheriff’s Department, the protest took place at around 10:30 a.m., and protesters gathered at a construction site at County Road 35 and Highway 6, 2 miles east of Highway 1806.
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