Armed With Riot Gear, Militarized Police Begin Forcibly Clearing DAPL Protest Camp

‘We will be peaceful, we will be prayerful, we will not retreat’

By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
Common Dreams
October 27, 2016

Arrests have begun at the recently erected frontline camp in the path of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), as police and military move in on Indigenous water protectors and their allies in North Dakota.

With law enforcement seemingly interfering with cell signal, it is difficult to get a live feed from the ground. Some social media users were able to post video and updates from the scene: