{"id":79158,"date":"2016-09-12T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=79158"},"modified":"2016-09-09T16:46:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T15:46:14","slug":"police-do-nothing-as-armed-mercenaries-attack-native-american-dakota-pipeline-protesters-with-dogs-and-pepper-spray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/09\/police-do-nothing-as-armed-mercenaries-attack-native-american-dakota-pipeline-protesters-with-dogs-and-pepper-spray\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Do Nothing as Armed Mercenaries Attack Native American Dakota Pipeline Protesters with Dogs and Pepper Spray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/pipeline-protest-dogs-north-dakota-sioux-protest-standing-rock.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-79159 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/pipeline-protest-dogs-north-dakota-sioux-protest-standing-rock-1024x529.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/countercurrentnews.com\/2016\/09\/police-do-nothing-mercenaries-protesters-dogs\/\" width=\"1024\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/pipeline-protest-dogs-north-dakota-sioux-protest-standing-rock-1024x529.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/pipeline-protest-dogs-north-dakota-sioux-protest-standing-rock-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/pipeline-protest-dogs-north-dakota-sioux-protest-standing-rock-768x396.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/pipeline-protest-dogs-north-dakota-sioux-protest-standing-rock.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>3 Sep 2016 &#8211; <\/em>Police stood idly by as private security guards who were working on behalf of the corporations building the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline turned attack dogs on peaceful protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Several Native American groups have been circulating videos of the pepper-spraying by the security forces, as well as the dog attacks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/north-dakota-sioux-protest-standing-rock.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-79160\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/north-dakota-sioux-protest-standing-rock.jpg\" alt=\"north-dakota-sioux-protest-standing-rock\" width=\"700\" height=\"974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/north-dakota-sioux-protest-standing-rock.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/north-dakota-sioux-protest-standing-rock-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, that is the blood of peaceful protestors on this dog&#8217;s mouth. At least six peaceful water protectors were bit by dogs and dozens were pepper sprayed today by private security at a Dakota Access pipeline construction site. One horse was also bit in the attack. Despite the attack the water protectors pushed onward until construction on the site was shutdown for the day.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/countercurrentnews.com\/2016\/09\/police-do-nothing-mercenaries-protesters-dogs\/\" >To see all photos and continue reading Go to Original \u2013 countercurrents.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 Sep 2016 &#8211; Police stood idly by as private security guards who were working on behalf of the corporations building the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline turned attack dogs on peaceful protesters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indigenous-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}