Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

August 21, 2026

Anonymous Gives Officers 48 Hours to Turn Themselves In -- Operation Morton County Engaged 2016 Updated

Anonymous Message to Morton County Sheriff Removed at YouTube

Censored News, Aug. 22, 2026

STANDING ROCK, North Dakota -- One of Censored News most viewed articles this week is the Anonymous video concerning Morton County and violent law enforcement, during the defense of the water at Standing Rock.

The rest of the story came later from Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier in a separate case, North Dakota v US.

The 'good ole boy' was hacked.

Kirchmeier said that he lost control of his e-mail account at the sheriff's department, when it was somehow taken over, and he had to use his personal e-mail account for a while.



Anonymous gave officers 48 hours to turn themselves in.

These two officers wearing masks have been identified as terrifying water protectors at a hotel parking lot.

Morton County was also told to arrest the officers who brutalized water protectors and shot concussion grenades, in three days, causing serious injury, or they will be exposed.

Anonymous said: Watch before it is removed again!
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The video is available to those over 18.

"Hello we are Anonymous this is a message to the Morton County Sheriff's Department. Your acts of violence threats and torture upon the protesters and water protectors of North Dakota," the voice of Anonymous said on Dec. 6, 2016.

"The two officers who threatened the protesters in the parking lot now have 48 hours to turn themselves in or we will expose all their information publicly. We have the license plate of both vehicles and pictures of both officers at the pipeline prior to their threats with the protesters at the hotel."

"We have run your plates and we know who you are. Turn yourselves in or be exposed."

"You have 3 days to arrest and charge the officers from this for terroristic threats and we further want the officers who fired concussion grenades to face charges and the injuries of protesters whereas one even lost her arm your treasonous acts against the constitutional rights of the people are no longer tolerated."

"You are civil servants and are to protect the people not oil."

"This is not a threat, it's a promise."

"We are Anonymous, we do not forgive, we do not forget."

"Morton County Sheriff's Department expect us."

"Operation Morton County engaged."


Read more:

The Kirchmeier File: 'The Perfect Storm' was the Perfect Human Rights Disaster
Censored News (2024)

In the case of North Dakota v US, the federal government agreed to pay the state $27.8 million in June of 2026. The state claimed it was owed money for the resistance at Standing Rock, for law enforcement and emergency costs. https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/LSB11241

August 19, 2026

Tohono O'odham Nation Denied Injunction to Halt Border Wall

Tohono O'odham Nation Denied Injunction to Halt Border Wall
Border Wall construction near Yuma, Arizona. Photo US Army Corps of Engineers.

A federal judge's rejection of the Tohono O'odham Nation's lawsuit to stop construction of the border wall means the blowing up of six mountain peaks and a heavy construction staging area on tribal land to be chosen by contractors. The Nation is now considering its options.
Photo courtesy tree sitters in Lochiel, Arizona

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 15, 2026, Updated

WASHINGTON -- The Tohono O'odham Nation was denied an injunction to halt construction of the border wall on Friday by a federal judge who ruled the government's interests outweigh other possible harms. The judge failed to uphold the tribe's right to their land and to protect it from being diminished by the border wall. Further, the judge ruled that the border wall would not be illegal trespass.

"We strongly disagree with this ruling and are considering all possible options for moving forward," Chairman Verlon Jose and Vice Chairwoman Carla Johnson said in a statement.

O'odham Ancestral Land Being Stripped Bare at Sacred Quitobaquito Springs for Second Border Wall

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Bulldozers scrape the sweet earth bare today near O'odham's Sacred Quitobaquito Springs. Video by Russ McSpadden.

O'odham Ancestral Land Being Stripped Bare at Sacred Quitobaquito Springs for Second Border Wall

Article by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 18, 2026

QUITOBAQUITO SPRINGS, Arizona -- The ancestral land of O'odham is being stripped bare near Sacred Quitobaquito Springs, home to pupfish, snails and turtles found nowhere else in the world, except here in the fragile Sonoran Desert. 

Quitobaquito Springs is a place of prayer and ceremony for O'odham. The federal government is destroying this land for a second border wall, that is being protested here on the Arizona border, and from California to Texas.

The roads are closed, but Russ McSpadden hiked into the area Monday and found the destruction underway at Organ Pipe National Monument.

NO BORDER WALL: Grandmother Camp in Lochiel, Arizona, Expanded to Tree Sit on the Mexico Side

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NO BORDER WALL
Tree Sit in Lochiel, Ariz., Today, Wed., August 19, 2026

At Grandmother Camp, saving an ancient cottonwood, defenders stand in front of construction trucks at sunrise today. See the new video reports