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4 September 2016 (ICTMN) – On Saturday, 3 September 2016, water protectors from the Red Warrior Camp near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation went to a construction site for the Dakota Access oil pipeline. There, they said, they were confronted by guard dogs and pepper spray, wielded by private security guards employed by Energy Transfer Partners, the pipeline builder’s parent company.
Photographer Matika Wilbur, of Project 562 fame, was at the scene and compiled this video of some of the events of that afternoon.
One protester said, “They set the dogs on us, and they started spraying … Before I got sprayed, I saw dogs biting people indiscriminately.”
Dakota Access: Photographer Matika Wilbur Captures Video of Pepper-Sprayed Water Protectors