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Photograph: Stephanie Keith/Reuters </figcaption> </figure> <p>Harkening back to an earlier era, when police in Birmingham, Alabama, attacked African American schoolchildren with dogs and high-pressure water hoses, North Dakota officers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/21/dakota-access-pipeline-water-cannon-police-standing-rock-protest" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline">trained water cannons</a> on hundreds of Dakota Access pipeline protesters.</p> <p>On the night of 20 November, though, the temperature was below freezing and the protesters, who call themselves &#x201C;water protectors&#x201D;, were camping outdoors for the evening.</p> <p>Water is just one many &#x201C;less-than-lethal&#x201D; munitions that have been trained against the activists.<br></p> <p>&#x201C;They seem to have almost an infinite arsenal of different types of weapons,&#x201D; said Rachel Lederman, attorney for the National Lawyers Guild (NLG). &#x201C;I don&#x2019;t think local law enforcement understands how dangerous they are.&#x201D; </p> <p>Police have acknowledged using sponge rounds, bean bag rounds, stinger rounds, teargas grenades, pepper spray, Mace, Tasers and a sound weapon. The explosive teargas grenades in use at Standing Rock have been banned by some US law enforcement agencies because they indiscriminately spray people, Lederman said. </p> <p>&#x201C;I feel like Morton County law enforcement is experimenting on us,&#x201D; Black Elk said. &#x201C;It&#x2019;s like they received all this free military equipment and they&#x2019;re just itching to try it out.&#x201D; </p> <p>On Monday, the NLG <a href="http://www.nlg.org/water-protector-legal-collective-files-suit-for-excessive-force-against-peaceful-protesters/" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline">filed a federal class action lawsuit</a> against the Morton County sheriff&#x2019;s office, alleging excessive force at the 20 November encounter. The group is seeking a temporary restraining order to bar police from using &#x201C;less-than-lethal&#x201D; munitions, chemical agents, sound cannons, and water against activists.<br></p> <aside class="element element-rich-link element--thumbnail element-rich-link--not-upgraded" data-component="rich-link" data-link-name="rich-link-3 | 2"> <div class="rich-link"> <div class="rich-link__container"> <div class="rich-link__header"> <h1 class="rich-link__title">Dakota Access pipeline protester &apos;may lose her arm&apos; after police standoff</h1> </div> <div class="rich-link__read-more"> <div class="rich-link__arrow"> <span class="inline-arrow-in-circle inline-icon "> <svg width="24" height="24" viewbox="0 0 24 24" class="inline-arrow-in-circle__svg inline-icon__svg"> <path class="rich-link__arrow-icon" d="M12 0C5.373 0 0 5.373 0 12s5.373 12 12 12 12-5.373 12-12S18.627 0 12 0m.21 19l-.637-.668 4.888-6.326H4.996v-1.01h11.465l-4.888-6.333.637-.668L19 11.153v.685l-6.79 7.157" fill="#005689" fill-rule="evenodd"/> </svg> </span> </div> <div class="rich-link__read-more-text"> Read more </div> </div> <a class="rich-link__link u-faux-block-link__overlay" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/22/dakota-access-pipeline-protester-seriously-hurt-during-police-standoff-standing-rock"></a> </div> </div> </aside> <p>More than two dozen people were hospitalized and 300 injured during the conflict, according to the medic and healer council. One woman&#x2019;s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/22/dakota-access-pipeline-protester-seriously-hurt-during-police-standoff-standing-rock" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline">arm was nearly blown off</a>, according to her father, and the complaint alleges that another <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/medical-fund-for-vanessa" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline">woman was shot in the eye</a>, resulting in the detachment of her retina and possible permanent blindness.</p> <p>&#x201C;It is only a matter of luck that no one has been killed,&#x201D; Lederman said about the suit. &#x201C;This must stop.&#x201D;</p> <h2>&#x2018;A messy, messy mess&#x2019;</h2> <figure itemprop="associatedMedia image" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" data-component="image" class="element element-image img--landscape fig--narrow-caption fig--has-shares " data-media-id="8216b85d3d94000a1452458e64d22cd13a4bd0fb" id="img-2"> <meta 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Photograph: Stephanie Keith/Reuters </figcaption> </figure> <p>North Dakota law enforcement officials have released misleading or blatantly inaccurate statements about protest actions while using charged language to paint peaceful demonstrators as violent threats to public safety.</p> <p>&#x201C;There&#x2019;s a lot of testimony on the part of the police that doesn&#x2019;t match up with what we are seeing,&#x201D; said Roberto Borrero, an International Indian Treaty Council representative who assisted the United Nations in an <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/31/dakota-access-pipeline-protest-investigation-human-rights-abuses" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline">investigation of human rights abuses</a> by law enforcement against Standing Rock activists.</p> <p>When asked about the water cannons, a sheriff&#x2019;s spokeswoman initially told the Guardian that protesters were &#x201C;starting fires&#x201D;. But footage later emerged showing police <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2016/nov/21/dakota-access-pipeline-standing-rock-water-cannon-video" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline">aiming the hoses directly at activists</a>. The department subsequently conceded that it had purposefully used water on the protesters.</p> <p>On Thanksgiving, Morton County sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier released a statement condemning the actions of &#x201C;paid agitators and protesters&#x201D; without offering any evidence that people were being paid to fight the pipeline. The department has not responded to requests to substantiate the claim. </p> <aside class="element element-rich-link element--thumbnail element-rich-link--not-upgraded" data-component="rich-link" data-link-name="rich-link-3 | 3"> <div class="rich-link"> <div class="rich-link__container"> <div class="rich-link__header"> <h1 class="rich-link__title">The Standing Rock protests are a symbolic moment | Neil Young and Daryl Hannah</h1> </div> <div class="rich-link__read-more"> <div class="rich-link__arrow"> <span class="inline-arrow-in-circle inline-icon "> <svg width="24" height="24" viewbox="0 0 24 24" class="inline-arrow-in-circle__svg inline-icon__svg"> <path class="rich-link__arrow-icon" d="M12 0C5.373 0 0 5.373 0 12s5.373 12 12 12 12-5.373 12-12S18.627 0 12 0m.21 19l-.637-.668 4.888-6.326H4.996v-1.01h11.465l-4.888-6.333.637-.668L19 11.153v.685l-6.79 7.157" fill="#005689" fill-rule="evenodd"/> </svg> </span> </div> <div class="rich-link__read-more-text"> Read more </div> </div> <a class="rich-link__link u-faux-block-link__overlay" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/28/standing-rock-protests-neil-young"></a> </div> </div> </aside> <p>In another statement that week, the sheriff said activists were not engaged in &#x201C;civil disobedience&#x201D; but were acting like &#x201C;evil agitators&#x201D;. The Mandan, North Dakota, police chief, Jason Ziegler, has asserted that law enforcement agencies &#x201C;can use whatever force necessary to maintain peace&#x201D;.</p> <p>Caro Gonzales, a 26-year-old member of the Chemehuevi tribe and an anti-police violence activist in Washington state, said the language from law enforcement officials resembled that used to discredit unarmed black men killed by police. </p> <p>Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, who fatally shot Michael Brown in 2014, said the unarmed black teenager looked like a &#x201C;<a draggable="true" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/25/darren-wilson-testimony-ferguson-michael-brown" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline">demon</a>&#x201D;. </p> <p>&#x201C;Police and police unions use this language so they can demonize people who are fighting for their rights,&#x201D; said Gonzales. </p> <p>A lack of transparency, confusing jurisdictions, and the fact that dozens of law enforcement agencies have assisted the local sheriff&#x2019;s department further complicate the situation.</p> <p>The Morton County sheriff&#x2019;s department has refused to reveal which law enforcement agencies were involved in the 20 November action. But the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has assembled a list of <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/how-many-law-enforcement-agencies-does-it-take-subdue-peaceful-protest" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline">76 different agencies</a> &#x2013; state, county, and local agencies from North Dakota and nine other states &#x2013; that have sent officers to the protests.</p> <p>&#x201C;There are real concerns about how the Morton County sheriff&#x2019;s department is exercising command and control,&#x201D; said Jennifer Cook, policy director for the ACLU of North Dakota. &#x201C;Who makes the decision about how to police the protest? When you have so many agencies involved, each one is going to have its own training and protocol.&#x201D;</p> <p>Adding to the confusion is an exceedingly complicated jurisdictional terrain.</p> <p>The first Standing Rock encampment, known as Sacred Stone, was established in April on land owned by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/02/dakota-pipeline-protest-bundy-militia" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline">LaDonna Brave Bull Allard</a>, which sits within the boundaries of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation.</p> <p>But as more activists joined the movement, camps were established north of the reservation border, on land managed by the Army Corps of Engineers and leased to a private rancher. 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