A warrant is out for Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s arrest.
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Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein at a protest in North Dakota Tuesday.
The Morton County Sheriff’s Department opened a criminal investigation and charged Stein and Baraka with criminal trespassing and criminal mischief – both are misdemeanors.
A judge has issued a warrant for her arrest but it is not known whether she intends to turn herself in. But Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier made it clear he was “working up the information through the state’s attorney’s office to pursue charges” against the Green Party candidate. The issue is being heard in a U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, which granted the Standing Rock Sioux tribe a partial restraining order against construction on tribal ground.
She later called her actions “civil disobedience”, tweeting, “I hope ND presses charges against the real vandals who bulldoze sacred burial sites”. 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.
Native American protestors are confronted by security during a demonstration against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. “It does not prevent Dakota Access Pipeline from destroying sacred sites as we await a ruling on our original motion to stop construction altogether”, Sioux chairman Dave Archambault said.
For weeks, the Standing Rock Sioux tribe has led demonstrations against the massive oil pipeline, which will span at least 1,168 miles, from North Dakota to IL. “It can not be allowed to go forward”, she added.
“Our campaign supports the courageous Indigenous leaders who are taking a stand to protect future generations from the deadly greed of the fossil fuel industry”, the statement added. “We approve of their vision and courage”. She was charged in 2012 for protesting outside of a debate to which she hadn’t been invited.
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According to the Morton County Sheriff’s Department, the protest took place at around 10:30 a.m., and protesters gathered at a building area at County Road 35 and Highway 6, 2 miles east of Highway 1806.
