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Federal Appeals Court Schedule for Standing Rock Cases in December
The Back Story at Backwater Bridge: The Facts that the Pipeline and Courts Don't Want You to Know
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Dec. 10, 2025
The cases of Marcus Mitchell, Dine'/Navajo, and Sophia Wilansky, both critically injured at Backwater Bridge in Standing Rock, will be heard before the federal Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Paul, Minnesota in December.
During the peaceful protests, Mitchell was shot and blinded in his left eye by officers firing 12-gauge shotguns loaded with lead-filled bean bags on the night of Jan. 18, 2017. Wilansky's left forearm was blown apart by an explosive projectile on the night of Nov. 20, 2016. The federal lawsuits aim to hold the officers, and those who gave the orders, responsible for excessive force. Mitchell and Wilansky were defending the water from the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, owned by Energy Transfer.
The federal court schedule and location are shown below.
PHONE: (651) 848-1300
Federal Court Building
316 North Robert Street
Room 500
St. Paul, MN. 55101
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Denied Justice in North Dakota courts, the cases of Marcus Mitchell and Sophia Wilansky will be heard in federal appeals court.
The extreme cruelty of law enforcement and federal agents, after they were critically injured, is revealed in the lawsuits.
The Back Story of Backwater Bridge
The back story at Backwater Bridge is not always allowed during the testimony in the court cases. Standing Rock water protectors were attacked with vicious dogs, brought in by Energy Transfer, as they defended Lakota burial places from bulldozers on Sept. 3, 2016.
TigerSwan, hired by Energy Transfer, then advised and directed law enforcement. TigerSwan was found to be working without a license at Standing Rock. As a result, TigerSwan's information was made public by North Dakota's regulatory board. Energy Transfer sued in a failed attempt to keep it secret.
Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said he worked with the National Sheriff's Association to bring in law enforcement from throughout the country, according to Kirchmeier's previous depositions. Congress was lobbied for militarized tanks and weapons. The head of the National Sheriff's Association had much to gain in his home region, at the end of the Dakota Access Pipeline on the Louisiana Gulf Coast.
The FBI hired an undercover operative, Heath Harmond, a Native from Fort Berthold, who brought in the gun in the case of Red Fawn. Undercover operatives, former military special ops, were in the camp, and urged water protectors to go to Backwater Bridge.
Retired Delta Force Sgt. John Porter was one of those. Porter's role on Nov. 20th at the bridge is described in the article in a special ops publication. Porter was TigerSwan’s program manager.
"Porter was known to drive his pickup truck to a position over watching the North Bridge that crossed Cannon Ball River, the body of water that separated the protesters from the ETP oil pipeline construction site. From here, he would get on the radio and mimic the calls made by the protesters themselves in the early days of the protest before they got wise to the fact that the contractors were monitoring them. 'All warriors to the bridge!” Porter would order over the radio, pretending to be a protester. 'Everyone to the bridge, all warriors to the bridge!” (Read more at 'TigerSwan Spy Documents, What Energy Transfer Doesn't Want You to :now, at Censored News https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2022/03/tigerswan-spy-documents-at-standing.html )
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Sophia Wilansky was critically injured at Backwater Bridge, Standing Rock, Nov. 20, 2016
 | | Marcus Mitchell was critically injured at Backwater Bridge, Standing Rock, Jan. 18, 2017. Courtesy photo Censored News. May not be reused. |
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