Standing Rock Medics Attacked by Police and Arrested

Medic treats victim of police attack at Standing Rock on Oct. 27, 2016. Photo by Rob Wilson.

Victim of police attack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQql9pbwKAQ

While the bizarre court case continues in Mandan, North Dakota, Energy Transfer v Greenpeace, our most viewed articles include this one from the medics at Standing Rock, who were targeted and attacked as the medics were treating water protectors on Oct. 27, 2016 -- a tactic that was used in Palestine when medics were targeted and assassinated during the past two years. At Standing Rock, law enforcement had silencers on their weapons. "Why do they have silencers if they are here for peace," a medic said, who was fired on by law enforcement using shotguns loaded with lead-filled bean bags. According to the Geneva Convention, knowingly firing at a medic wearing clear insignia is a war crime. - Censored News, March 11, 2025

Morton County Sheriff and the Violent Gang of Police Targeted and Arrested Medics while they were Treating Patients

Paiute and Shoshone Elders Evicted from their Homes in Winnemucca Indian Colony, Nevada

Photo courtesy Neweneen Sokopa Camp

Police blocking entrance to Paiute
and Shoshone to return home at Winnemucca
Indian Colony.

Paiute and Shoshone were evicted from their homes in winter by a disputed tribal council and banished, many with no place to go. Kyle Missouri was tasered, arrested, and now jailed while attempting to return home.

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News

Updated Dec. 17, 2022

Translated to French by Christine Prat

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=7571

WINNEMUCCA INDIAN COLONY, Nevada -- In a cruel action during winter, the Winnemucca Tribal Court evicted Paiute and Shoshone elders without a trial, and banished people from their homes with no place to go in northern Nevada. Elders' homes and possessions have been burned and demolished, and utility lines cut, attorneys said.

"They are living in motels right before Christmas, and it is heartbreaking," said Kyle Missourii, who was arrested and tasered as he returned to his home, where he grew up, which is owned by his 88-year-old grandmother. Kyle is now in jail.

The Winnemucca Tribal Court ruled for the disputed Tribal Council without giving elders and residents the benefit of a trial. The tribal court ordered most elders and residents out of the homes they have lived in for decades by Friday, December 9, attorneys said.

Paiute Elder Resident JJ Ayer said, “I am of seven generations of Native people that have lived on the Winnemucca Indian Colony. This is wrong in every way, most of us are disabled and old with no other home but here and now we are banished from our land.”

Paiute and Shoshone elders said the tribal council, led by a chairwoman who does not live here, and provides inconsistent claims of being Native American, have brought in a demolition business from Kingman, Arizona, to destory their homes.

MINNESOTA -- Water Protectors Denied Medications and Phone Calls After Arrests

Camp near the Headwaters of Mississippi Established 

New Camp to Stop Enbridge Line 3 Established, as More Than 150 Water Protectors Arrested

Statement by GINIW Collective

Censored News, June 8, 2021

English and French 

UPDATE: 150+ #StopLine3 Water Protectors Arrested Denied Medications, Denied Phone Calls, Sent Throughout State in Minnesota

After a mass action shutting down a Line 3 pump station, over 150 water protectors were arrested. Arrestees have since been transferred to Aitkin County, Kandiyohi County, Douglas County, Pine County, Todd County & Becker County. The counties are part of the 16-county Northern Lights Task Force, which has received significant funding from the Enbridge Corporation. To date, sheriffs have billed hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Enbridge-funded and state-overseen Public Safety Escrow Account. 

Police Now Arresting Elder Protectors on Mauna Kea in Hawaii

Aunty Maxine, posted by Tammy.

TAOS Buck Johnston descends drill rig in ceremony, arrested

Update Monday: Buck was released from jail.

Taos Water Guardian Buck Johnston descended from atop a drilling rig on Sunday and completed his Four Day Ceremony in Prayer. In handcuffs, Buck smoked the Sacred Pipe.

Buck's sister Lyla June Johnston describes how his courageous action was done with love. A crowd cheered as he came down the drilling rig, after he spent four days and nights strapped atop the rig in the cold.

Watch Lyla's video report which includes how Taos aquifers are now threatened:

.https://m.facebook.com/lylaj?fref=nf&pn_ref=story&ref=bookmarks

Lyla writes:

U.S. Border Patrol Continues Destroying Life Saving Water for Migrants -- New Report 2018

Updates: The Intercept reports 9 volunteers have been arrested for giving humanitarian aid to migrants on southern Arizona border.
.https://static.theintercept.com/amp/no-more-deaths-arizona-border-littering-charges-immigration.html

Volunteer at No More Deaths arrested hours after the group released this report. Read article in The Guardian.

.https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/22/arrest-no-more-deaths-border-patrol-water-sabotage-migrants?__twitter_impression=true

U.S. Border Patrol has been accused of destroying food and water left in the Arizona desert for migrants. Above, a still from a video of an agent pouring water bottles out 

French translation by Christine Prat
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2018/01/us-border-patrol-continues-destroying.html

By No More Deaths

Dear friend of No More Deaths,

Today, No More Deaths, in collaboration with La Coalición de Derechos Humanos, is releasing Interference with Humanitarian Aid: Death and Disappearance on the US–Mexico Border. This report is the second installment of a three-part report series entitled Disappeared: How US Border-Enforcement Agencies Are Fueling a Missing-Persons Crisis. In part 2, we detail the intentional destruction of over 3,000 gallons of water left out for border crossers, implicating the US Border Patrol in the majority of this destruction.