Prior to charges being filed, per NBC News, Stein had said she hoped North Dakota authorities “press charges against the real vandalism taking place at the Standing Rock Sioux reservation: the bulldozing of sacred burial sites and the unleashing of vicious attack dogs”.
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein says she’s working with North Dakota authorities to arrange a court date on charges related to her participation in a protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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 is set to deliver a key ruling on the four-state Dakota Access pipeline that has drawn thousands of protesters to a construction site in North Dakota in recent weeks.
On Wednesday, following through on an earlier threat, Morton County sheriff’s department charged both Stein and Baraka with misdemeanor criminal trespass and criminal mischief.
Stein, a Chicago native who grew up in Highland Park, is in Chicago on Thursday for what her campaign billed a “reality tour” on the West Side and a rally in Uptown on Thursday night.
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The Standing Rock Sioux tribe has been protesting the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline, which would carry crude oil from North Dakota to IL. American Indian tribes worry a leak in the pipeline would taint their only source of water. The $3.8 billion pipeline will run from North Dakota to IL, and part of its path will cross the Missouri River. The developer, Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners, says modern technology allows quick detection of leaks.
