Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

February 14, 2022

Temporary State Supreme Court order puts brakes on TigerSwan spy documents release


Paiute Shoshone journalist Myron Dewey posted this video of the militarized attack on Water Protectors at Standing Rock as they were hit with water cannons and projectiles on Nov. 20, 2016. Water Protectors suffered critical injuries from the attack by firemen and militarized law enforcement. Myron, a drone activist, documented the stalking and surveillance by TigerSwan mercenaries, and other private security contractors, employed by Dakota Access Pipeline. Myron was killed in September when a truck pulled into his lane and hit him head-on near his family's home, on an isolated dirt road in Yomba, Nevada.

Temporary North Dakota Supreme Court order puts brakes on TigerSwan spy documents release

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

TigerSwan and the Dakota Access Pipeline owners found a way to suddenly halt people from seeing how they were stalking and spying on Water Protectors at Standing Rock.

They also stalked and spied on journalists like Myron Dewey, killed in September when a driver pulled into his lane and hit Myron in a fatal head-on collision. The other driver, John Walsh of Reno, survived and was found at fault, but charges have not yet been filed.

Now a temporary North Dakota Supreme Court order has put the brakes on the release of thousands of TigerSwan spy documents, which a state judge said earlier are public records and were scheduled for release.

"The temporary Supreme Court order means that the 62,000 pages of documents deemed by the judge late last year to be public will remain off-limits for now to anyone, including several news organizations that have requested them," Bismarck Tribune reports
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Earlier, Morton County Sheriff's Office said TigerSwan directed the law enforcement at the secret fusion center in North Dakota, responsible for the militarized attacks on Water Protectors at Standing Rock 2016 -- 2017.

Those attacks resulted in critical injuries for Water Protectors. Further, the North Dakota regulatory board ruled TigerSwan worked without a license in North Dakota.

The Intercept media has been waging a costly court battle against the pipeline owners, Energy Transfer, for the release of the documents.


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Temporary Supreme Court order halts release of TigerSwan spy documents at Standing Rock

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