Stein was charged Wednesday in Morton County with misdemeanor counts of criminal trespass and criminal mischief.
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When Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein joined in protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, she may have gone too far. Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier was originally going to also charge Stein with vandalism.
“This is not the way to protest”, Kirchmeier added. The Morton County Sheriff’s department has issued warrants of arrest. Baraka is accused of painting the word “decolonization” on another piece of construction equipment, the Associated Press reported.
Jill Stein, who is now polling around 5%, was protesting with Native Americans in North Dakota to stop the Dakota Access pipeline. A federal judge subsequently temporarily delayed construction on portions of the pipeline on Tuesday.
Over the weekend, the protests turned violent as private security guards clashed with demonstrators.
Stein defended her actions to the Chicago Tribune (http://trib.in/2cfvzAg ) Thursday during a campaign stop in Chicago.
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A spokeswoman for Ms. Stein’s campaign said she spray-painted the message onto a bulldozer that she alleged had been used days earlier to damage ancestral gravesites of the Sioux tribe. A number of polls have put Stein’s support in the low single digits, positioning her behind Libertarian Gary Johnson and “undecided”. At the Democratic convention in Philadelphia, she repeatedly (and successfully) pitched her candidacy to hundreds of disillusions Bernie Sanders supporters. That university is hosting the first presidential debate in 2016 and Stein vows to show up regardless of if she receives an invite. “It can not be allowed to go forward”, she added.
