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Ball, N.D. and Lohrville, IA – Children participating in
anti-Bakken Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) actions in Iowa and North
Dakota were targets of similar disturbing attacks this week when men
asked the price to buy the children.
Water
Protectors, the name of a loose collection of groups lead by Native
Americans and their allies, is attempting to halt construction of the
Bakken DAPL which will run from North Dakota to Illinois. It has
fronts in North Dakota and Iowa.
Water
Protectors in Iowa were heading to an action site outside Lohrville
on October 15. Water Protector Marissa Cummings was walking with her
young daughter. The workers fled when they saw the Protectors coming.
Cummings and her daughter encountered a fleeing Bakken DAPL worker in
a truck. As he fled the area, he shouted out the window at Marissa
Cummings, “How much for the little girl?”
The
entire exchange was caught on video and shared on Facebook.
The
next day, a Standing Rock Water Protector camp in North Dakota was
targeted for a similar attack.
On
the Standing Rock Rising Facebook page, a Water Protector identified
as Redhawk described a similar incident.
“Yesterday at Standing
Rock, a suspicious truck was spotted driving around camp. The driver
stated that a DAPL worker had contacted him on facebook and asked him
for a price for a child. I was told he was warning protectors. This
information was reported directly to me by a native protector,”
writes Redhawk.
Water Protectors have
complained that tactics by Energy Transfer Partners’ contracted
security company is dangerous. On September 2 private securety
protecting a Bakken DAPL site in North Dakota used attack dogs and
pepper spray on Water Protectors.
The man soliciting the price of the child in Iowa is described as in his 50’s or 60’s, driving a silver Ford truck.
The man soliciting the price of the child in Iowa is described as in his 50’s or 60’s, driving a silver Ford truck.
In North Dakota he is
described as driving a blue extended cab pickup truck with a camper
shell.
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