MANDAN, N.D. - Law enforcement and Dakota Access protesters were in what officers called an "ongoing riot" Sunday night.The site of the confrontation was the Backwater Bridge, north of a protest camp in Morton County south of Mandan.The incident .
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Policing and Militarism Go Hand in Hand. We Must Abolish Both.
Members of the National Guard patrol behind a a security fence perimeter surrounding the Hennepin County Government Center on March 31, 2021, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Policing and militarism are a two-headed monster that protects and upholds the foundation upon which racial capitalism was built exploitation of the lives of poor Black and Brown people.
Although much attention has been placed on recent expansions of police militarization, these threads have long been intertwined. For Black Americans, police have always acted as an occupying force within our communities. But during the 1960s, a decade of unprecedented Black radical resistance, the lines between police and military and national defense became even more blurred.
Law officers in Morton County on Monday afternoon are set to detonate munitions as part of the evidence-exchanging process in a federal lawsuit filed by a Dakota Access Pipeline protester who claims police targeted her with a concussion grenade.
Attorneys for Sophia Wilansky, of New York, have been jockeying over evidence for months with attorneys for the county and officers who were part of the law enforcement response to the DAPL protests in south central North Dakota in 2016-17.
The two sides agreed during a March 16 conference that Morton County will procure at Wilanskyâs expense up to five munitions and deploy them in the presence of an expert hired by Wilansky. The initial date of April 6 was later moved to May 3, according to an order filed by U.S. Magistrate Judge Alice Senechal.