Media Silence After DAPL Police Blew Woman's Arm up with Grenade
(ANTIMEDIA) North Dakota — An unprecedented militarized crackdown took place Sunday night
at the construction site of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), located
just outside the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota.
The month-long standoff between Native American “water protectors”
and militarized law enforcement saw a dramatic escalation as water
cannons, tear gas, rubber bullets, concussion grenades, armored
vehicles, and other “less than lethal” weapons were used against the
protesters after they cleared an abandoned vehicle that acted as a
roadblock on a nearby bridge.
This unprecedented crackdown left hundreds of protesters wounded. According to an official statement from the Standing Rock Medic & Healer Council:
“Approximately 300 injuries were identified, triaged, assessed and
treated by our physicians, nurses, paramedics and integrative healers
working in collaboration with local emergency response. These 300
injuries were the direct result of excessive force by police over the
course of 10 hours. At least 26 seriously injured people had to be
evacuated by ambulance to 3 area hospitals.”
