Less than 20 hours after an interview with the Los Angeles Times editorial board, then tweeting (and deleting) some snark about Hillary Clinton’s health, Stein now is facing charges for allegedly trespassing and vandalizing a bulldozer Tuesday during a protest over a controversial oil pipeline under construction in North Dakota. As a result, according to AOL News, the Morton County Sheriff’s Department has issued a warrant for her arrest for trespassing and vandalism.
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“I approve this message”, she is accused of writing on the blade of an earth-moving machine.
A woman and a man attached themselves to equipment east of State Highway 6 using the same type of casting material used by demonstrators last week.
For more on the pipeline and what’s being done to stop it, check out Democracy Now’s interview with Standing Rock Sioux Tribe chairman Dave Archambault and Earth Justice lawyer Jan Hasselman.
An arrest warrant was issued for Stein, who polls in the low single digits in national surveys, stemming from her actions a day earlier against the 1,200-mile (1,931-kilometer) pipeline project contested by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
Over the past week, protests have escalated against a 1,772-mile long oil pipeline, worth several million dollars, that is planned to stretch across North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and IL.
The photo was captioned: “The Dakota Access Pipeline is vandalism on steroids”.
Displaying her activist credentials, Stein spoke to some of the protesters about the pipeline and did some campaigning as well. The developer, Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners, says modern technology allows quick detection of leaks. Angry protesters faced off with construction workers at the site on Saturday. The government responded by hiring a private security firm, who sicced their dogs on the protesters and pepper-sprayed at least 30 of them, some of them children.
Stein, and running mate Ajamu Baraka, now sit at 3.2 percent in the Real Clear Politics national average. Her campaign, she added, “supports the courageous Indigenous leaders who are taking a stand to protect future generations from the deadly greed of the fossil fuel industry”.
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U.S. District Judge James Boasberg says he’ll rule by the end of Friday on the tribe’s challenge to the pipeline, which will carry oil from North Dakota to IL. She said Friday that it’s an historic coming together of tribes – probably the largest such gathering of Native Americans in a century.
