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   Tensions over the Dakota Access oil pipeline flared again Sunday   
   when North Dakota law enforcement used water cannons to disperse   
   a group of about 400 protesters trying to move past a barricaded   
   bridge toward construction sites for the project.   
      
   As temperatures in Cannon Ball, N.D., dropped into the 20s,   
   police in riot gear sprayed activists with a hose mounted atop   
   an armored vehicle and formed a line to prevent them from   
   advancing up the road, according to the Bismarck Tribune.   
   Protesters also reported being pelted with rubber bullets, tear   
   gas and concussion grenades during the standoff, which lasted   
   until late Sunday night.   
      
   A grainy Facebook Live video from the scene shows throngs of   
   people gathered around the Backwater Bridge on Highway 1806,   
   with flood lights shining down on the grass and road below and a   
   haze of smoke and water vapor rising near police vehicles.   
      
   The clashes began around 6 p.m., when protesters tried to remove   
   burned out trucks that had been blocking the bridge since   
   authorities and activists faced off there in late October.   
   Police have since set up wire and concrete barriers on the   
   bridge, which is about a mile south of where the pipeline   
   developer plans to drill.   
      
   Protesters, who call themselves “water protectors,” have argued   
   that the barricade prevents emergency services from reaching the   
   Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and a nearby camp they have used   
   as a staging ground for demonstrations.   
      
   Authorities responded after protesters moved one of the trucks   
   blocking the roadway. The Morton County Sheriff’s Department   
   said that by 8:30 p.m. an estimated 400 people had arrived to   
   try to “breach” the bridge and had set dozens of fires in the   
   area. The department called the situation an “ongoing riot,”   
   saying protesters were “very aggressive” and were trying to   
   “flank and attack the law enforcement line.” At least one person   
   was arrested, the sheriff’s department said.   
      
   One of the protest organizers, Dallas Goldtooth, said protesters   
   started small fires in the area to help warm people who had been   
   sprayed with water in the freezing cold. He told the Tribune   
   that some activists tried to remove the burned out trucks to   
   expose the heavily armed authorities behind them.   
      
   “Folks have a right to be on a public road,” Goldtooth said.   
   “It’s absurd that people who’ve been trying to take down the   
   barricade now have their lives at risk.”   
      
   [U.N. officials denounce ‘inhuman’ treatment of Native American   
   pipeline protesters]   
      
   Another organizer, Tara Houska, told the Tribune that more than   
   200 people had been hit with tear gas, pepper spray or water   
   from the hose.   
      
   “They’re using everything and anything,” she said. “This has   
   been weeks and weeks of those vehicles on the road for no   
   apparent reason, and it’s a huge public safety risk. It’s   
   putting enormous pressure on the Standing Rock Sioux community   
   and people who live and work in the area.”   
      
   Organizers said the Cannon Ball gym was being used for emergency   
   relief, with medics from the Standing Rock Sioux and Cheyenne   
   River Sioux tribes treating people who were injured in the   
   standoff. Physicians and tribal healers with the Standing Rock   
   Medic and Healer Council called on authorities to stop using   
   water cannons against the protesters, saying the below-freezing   
   weather could cause hypothermia and criticizing the “potentially   
   lethal use of these controversial methods against people   
   peacefully assembled,” CNN reported.   
      
   The sheriff’s department said water cannons were brought in to   
   control the crowds and extinguish fires set by protesters.   
      
   “There are multiple fires being set by protesters on the bridge   
   and in the area of the bridge,” department spokeswoman Donnell   
   Hushka told CNN. “We have firetrucks on the scene. They are   
   using their fire hoses to put out the fires, wet the land around   
   so fires don’t spread, and they are also using water as crowd   
   control.”   
      
   The sheriff’s department told the Tribune that the bridge has   
   been closed since October because transportation officials were   
   concerned about its structural integrity.   
      
   The $3.8 billion pipeline is scheduled to carry crude oil nearly   
   1,200 miles from North Dakota to Illinois. Construction is   
   nearly complete, but a planned segment of the project that   
   crosses under the Missouri River has been a source of contention   
   for months. The Standing Rock Sioux argue that the pipeline cuts   
   within a mile of their reservation and could pollute water and   
   disrupt cultural sites. The tribe has challenged the project in   
   court, and protesters have camped out near the Missouri River   
   site for months.   
      
   Energy Transfer Partners, the project developer, says the   
   pipeline transports oil more safely than trucks and will not   
   harm sacred lands.   
      
   In October, a group of activists tried to set up a second   
   protest camp closer to the area where drilling is planned. They   
   blocked the roadway with scrap wood, bales of hay and tires and   
   used abandoned trucks to block the Backwater Bridge. After   
   repeatedly ordering them to leave, authorities stormed the camp,   
   using pepper spray, high-pitched warnings and rubber bullets   
   against those who refused to leave. More than 100 people were   
   arrested.   
      
   https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-   
   mix/wp/2016/11/21/police-citing-ongoing-riot-use-water-cannons-   
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