MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Standing Rock Sioux opposes the building of the Dakota Access Pipeline on the basis it will affect their water sources and violate sacred places, including burial sites. Numerous protests against the pipeline have already been held, however some of them have been dispersed even with the use of rubber bullets.
"I am deeply troubled by this tense situation, and particularly by reports indicating that law enforcement may be responding to peaceful protestors near Standing Rock with overly aggressive tactics," New Jersey Senator Cory Booker said in a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, as quoted by The Hill newspaper on Friday.
Tribal representative Linda Black Elk told Sputnik in the aftermath last weekend’s clashes between protesters and police that some law enforcement officers shot water cannons powerful enough to slough the skin off of a few protesters, while others were hit with rubber bullets that caused broken bones and open wounds requiring stitches.
