“To criminalize their behavior would be the crime,” the judge said of the charges against three Anishinaabe activists.
Still, LaDuke pointed out, the system was not strong enough to keep their people’s land and water safe. Since the completion of the pipeline in fall of 2021, regulators have revealed that Enbridge punctured aquifers at least four times during construction.
According to police reports, a group of 200 protesters blocked traffic on a rural Minnesota road on January 9, 2021, as they marched toward a place where a backhoe was holding a large pipe near a freshly dug hole. Twenty or 30 people entered the pipeline construction site, stopping work. “A Native American woman I did not know, wearing a jingle dress did a dance on the edge of the trench, and would not move back,” wrote Aitkin County Investigator Steve Cook.
It would be months before Enbridge reimbursed law enforcement agencies for the hours they spent policing the protest. According to an analysis by the Center for Media and Democracy, at least four local law enforcement agencies received more than $17,000 from Enbridge for assigning nearly 40 officers to the protest site that day.
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