Native Attorney Tara Houska Shot with Rubber Bullets and Jailed by Enbridge's Sheriffs' Deputies

Photo Tara Houska

Native Attorney Tara Houska Shot with Rubber Bullets and Jailed by Enbridge's Sheriffs' Deputies

Brenda Norrell

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Updated Aug. 6, 2021

THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minnesota -- Native attorney Tara Houska was shot with rubber bullets and jailed by Sheriffs deputies, bought and paid for by Enbridge and its dirty crude oil.

Tara has just been released from jail after brutal attacks on Water Protectors near Red Lake in northern Minnesota. Water Protectors are defending the rivers from pipeline construction by the Canadian corporation Enbridge and its dangerous tar sands crude oil on Line 3.

"People were shot in their faces. I saw a young woman's head get split open right in front of me," Houska told Democracy Now.

During the brutal arrests, Sheriffs deputies shoved and smashed Water Protectors faces down into the dirt. At least 20 Indigenous water protectors were arrested in Minnesota over the weekend during protests against the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline.

"The level of brutality that was unleashed on us was very extreme," Houska said.

Pennington County Sheriff's deputies based in Thief River Falls, with Sheriffs deputies from throughout the state of Minnesota, have targeted, abused and jailed Native Water Protectors -- grandmothers, women and youth -- during the past week.

Watch Tara Houska's interview -- Democracy Now!

https://www.democracynow.org/2021/8/4/tara_houska_line_3_pipeline_resistance

Photos of brutal arrests by Sheriffs deputies -- Censored News

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2021/08/brutal-arrests-pepper-spray-rubber.html

Minnesota police have billed over $1.7 million to account set up by Canadian company building Line 3 pipeline -- Peace Brigades International

https://pbicanada.org/2021/08/05/minnesota-police-have-billed-over-1-7-million-to-account-set-up-by-canadian-company-building-line-3-pipeline/

Thank you Christine Prat for translating into French! Please share in French speaking countries.

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=6572

STANDING ROCK: Police from 5 States Escalate Violence, Shoot Horses to Clear Treaty Camp

Photo by Sara Lafeur-Vetter

Police from 5 States Escalate Violence, Shoot Horses to Clear 1851 Treaty Camp

Update: The photos may be not be visible here, but can be seen on the copy on the Internet archive.

https://web.archive.org/web/20161028171725/https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2016/10/standing-rock-police-from-5-states.html

By Camp of the Sacred Stones
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French translation by Christine Prat at:
http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=3733

CANNONBALL, North Dakota -- Over 300 police officers in riot gear, 8 ATVs, 5 armored vehicles, 2 helicopters, and numerous military-grade humvees showed up north of the newly formed frontline camp just east of Highway 1806.  The 1851 Treaty Camp was set up this past Sunday directly in the path of the pipeline, on land recently purchased by DAPL.  Today this camp, a reclamation of unceded Dakota territory affirmed as part of the Standing Rock Reservation in the Ft. Laramie Treaty of 1851, was violently cleared.  Both blockades established this past weekend to enable that occupation were also cleared.