How is this legal? This is blatant police corruption, and something that the AG of Minnesota should immediately begin investigating. A tar sands oil pipeline company from another country (Canada) called Enbridge was paying off police in Minnesota to surveil, spy on, and even arrest pipeline protesters! This is a staggering level of corruption, and it’s not even remotely legal. Americans have a Constitutional right to protest, especially when the threat they are protesting is existential!
Read more at The Guardian
Given the new oil spill in southern California, this Line 3 pipeline protest takes on a new urgency. But what this foreign company, Enbridge, has gotten away with doing is really outrageous. If I felt that calling your congressman or woman would do any good, I’d recommend it, but I no longer feel that calling anyone has an actual impact. So behave appropriately, knowing that polite channels of protest no longer work (if they ever did).
And watch out for Minnesota cops. When they aren’t kneeling on someone’s neck until that person dies, they might be paying off cops to arrest you.
