State court records Tuesday evening didn’t yet list any formal counts against Stein.
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She says protesters did cross the fence onto the construction site, but private security got aggressive.
Stein leaned on the blade of a bulldozer as she talked to those gathered at the site.
Stein, who is anti-war and advocates for clean energy, camped out with protesters Monday evening.
Stein was part of a group of about 175 people who protested the pipeline at the construction site on Tuesday morning.
A federal judge called a Tuesday afternoon hearing on the restraining order request.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg partially halted construction until he reached a more complete decision on Friday. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is concerned the pipeline could jeopardize its reserve’s drinking water and destroy sacred sites.
Standing Rock Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II said in a statement: “The desecration of these ancient places has already caused the Standing Rock Sioux irreparable harm”. However, work will continue west of the highway because the judge believes that the US Army Corps of Engineers lacks jurisdiction on private land.
Over the weekend, workers allegedly bulldozed sites on private land that Hasselman said in court documents was “of great historic and cultural significance to the tribe”.
The attack, which occurred on the 153rd anniversary of the White Stone Hill Massacre, which took the lives of more than 3000 Dakota men, women, and children, also recalls horrific images of the Civil Rights Movement, when police unleashed dogs on protesters in Birmingham and Selma, Alabama. “According to numerous witnesses within five minutes the crowd of protestors, estimated to be a few hundred people became violent”.
The pipeline will cross North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and IL and is due to be finished this year. She also said the Energy Transfer Partner’s helicopter filmed the protests and handed the footage over to the police.
Jon Don Ilone Reed, an Army veteran and member of South Dakota’s Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, at an oil pipeline protest near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in southern North Dakota, Aug. 25, 2016.
The protest Saturday came one day after the tribe filed court papers saying it found several sites of “significant cultural and historic value” along the pipeline’s path. He has said he will rule on a tribe’s request for a long-term injunction against the pipeline’s construction by the end of this week. Boasberg said he expected to issue a full opinion on that lawsuit on September 9.
The tribe had asked for a restraining order against new construction, alleging the pipeline developers destroyed culturally important artifacts during clearing work over the weekend.
Proceedings in D.C. District Court today really showcased the complexity of this case… and tensions were high here today.
The Corps recently announced that it would not oppose the tribe’s temporary work stoppage request in order to prevent further clashes and keep the peace near Lake Oahe. ETP – the largest American pipeline company by volume of goods transported – says the line will be an environmentally-friendly way to transport crude to refineries in the Midwest, East Coast and Gulf Coast.
The incident occurred within half a mile of an encampment where hundreds of people have gathered to join the tribe’s protest of the oil pipeline, which is slated to cross the Dakotas and Iowa to IL.
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A spokeswoman for Energy Transfer Partners couldn’t immediately be reached to comment. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) issued the initial permitting for the pipeline.
