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| Backwater Bridge, Standing Rock, North Dakota, Nov. 20, 2023. Photo Stephanie Keith/Reuters. |
Standing Rock -- Federal Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Violent Cops at Backwater Bridge
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, November 8, 2023
A federal appeals court ruled in favor of law enforcement who fired rubber bullets, bean bags and projectiles at Standing Rock water protectors, and blasted them with water hoses in freezing temperatures, at Backwater Bridge on November 20, 2016.
Water protectors suffered critical injuries while seeking to halt the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota. However, the federal appeals court ruled against them in the class action, civil rights lawsuit that revealed excessive force by law enforcement.