It is indefensible for all politicians to not condemn what is occurring here.
It is disgraceful for more people to not speak out and show up to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Pray for the water protectors, for justice, for our people and our world. # NoDAPL # StandWithStandingRock# WaterIsLife
Erin's second post, Sunday Nov 6:
The police now say I was not shot.
A grenade launcher fired a rubber bullet at me, according to multiple eyewitnesses, yet law enforcement officials are denying the very fact that I was shot.
Dozens witnessed it firsthand, including two legal observers, videographers and photographers captured the direct aftermath, a medic and a doctor treated my injury and provided a signed MD statement, and I came forward to file reports and give testimony to the ACLU and Standing Rock lawyer collective.
Plus I have inadvertent proof in realtime video of the interview I was conducting on my camera at the precise moment when I was shot: facebook.com/erinschrode/posts/10209534283008328.
I never feared the police. Now I do. Not only because I was shot by those I trusted to protect my safety and keep the peace, but because it demonstrates the ease with which truth can be erased and narratives warped.
The man on the right fired the rubber bullet at me out of that very grenade launcher, according to eyewitness accounts, in this photo taken moments after by Josh Fox.
Militarized police aboard the Game Warden boat wielded automatic assault weapons, dressed in full camouflage fatigues with helmet, goggles, and gas masks, and without any visible name or unit identification.
I refer to them as militarized police because I have only seen that level of armament in photographs from combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan -- and yes, Baltimore and Ferguson too.
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