Strip Searches, Brutality, And Violent Arrests, Proves Which Side The Government Has Taken on DAPLBy Jack Burns An alderman (city council member) from Madison, WI, Rebecca Kemble, went to the front lines of the protest, to personally deliver a resolution of solidarity from her county to Standing Rock Tribal Chairman, David Archambault II (a leader of the protest). Madisons resolution, describes the value of sacred sites, government-to-government relations with Tribes, and the vital importance of protecting the water, and calls for more public education and for the US Army Corps of Engineers to halt all permitting processes until robust, free and informed consultation with the Standing Rock Sioux tribe has been conducted. Kemble was also bringing a load of supplies to the protesters and was preparing to deliver both on Sunday the 9th of Octoberwhile serving as a legal observer, a role in which shed already received training. She put on a hat with the words, National Lawyers Guild Legal Observer, grabbed her camera, and went out to observe. I heard the MC of the ceremony let people know that the police were arrivingand that if they were not prepared to be arrested they should return to the road and the public right of way, Kemble wrote admitting she was standing on the outside fringe of the protesters whod already gathered to voice their opposition to the pipelines creation. She described the police arrival as a military formation march and said one of the first arrests made was that of the Native American police liaison who was supposedly working with the police commander in charge to coordinate peaceful protests. Kemble continued her first-person narrative of the scene and said police warned them, as they advanced their front lines, which if the police touch you then youre going to be arrested. She admitted to quickly backing up but said the police officer nearest her lunged at her, pushing her up against the pipes behind her. Describing the incident she writes; Alder Kembles narrative follows other stories The Free Thought Project has chronicled, including that of award-winning journalist Amy Goodman. It seems, if Kembles account is accurate, journalists are especially targeted for arrest and prosecution of what should be peaceful protests but are anything but peaceful on the part of the police. Take the following additional story as an example, brought to us by the Huffington Post. According to the Post, an Arapaho girl (also reportedly at the prayer ceremony with Kemble) was forcefully arrested, having her face smashed into the cold 20-degree mud, an officers knee over the back of her neck. She was hauled to the Morton County jail, strip searched, dressed in an orange jumpsuit, and charged with criminal trespass and engaging in a riot, the Post writes adding it was the first time shed ever been in trouble with the law. According to unnamed sources within the Native Americans protesting, people are being forced to undo their braids, considered sacred, because officers fear the protesters are hiding weapons inside the braids. The protesters are reportedly also being arrested off-premises and harassed in town by intimidating as well. Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier is the Morton County official in charge of operations along the pipeline. If youd like to call, write, or text Sheriff Kirchmeier and encourage him to respect the U.S. Constitutions rights of citizens to peacefully protest, you may do so by clicking here. There is also a petition to remove Sheriff Kirchmeier. You can view the petition by clicking here. The petition already has 3,710 signatures of 5,000 needed. As Kemble concluded her eyewitness account of attempting to peacefully protest, she wrote, I witnessed and felt the depths of the human rights crisis facing their community. The day that we left, a Standing Rock woman was arrested at a traffic stop, taken to jail and strip searched in front of four male Deputies. Kemble reportedly told the Post she too had been strip searched and forced to remove her scrawny braids. Jack Burns writes for TheFreeThoughtProject.com, where this article first appeared. Get used to itthis type of neo-fascist hob-nailed boots on your neck Police State oppression is going to be rolled out for each every act of so-called civil disobedience everywhere for all forms of protest against the states heavy-handed edicts decree protocols of the 0.01% Hidden Handthats not so hidden anymorein fact its now the rule rather than the exception. They massacred a bunch of miners back in the early 1900s, and have had several other incidences. They (fbi and others) have killed a woman and her baby at Ruby Ridge. They had no problems killing women and children at Waco. There are so many of these confrontations, in a free society, no less, so sad. Arent these protesters being arrested for trespassing? I havent heard of any being arrested on the public right of way. (maybe provide a link and proof). Most people know that the just us system looks out for the corporate interests that pay for the political puppets. The puppeteers and their puppets. But are these protesters being arrested on the public right of way or are they trespassing on private property? I keep seeing this protest showing up on various alternative news sites, yet all I have ever seen is the people trespassing on private land are the ones that are being arrested and assaulted. I get it that the work that is being done has the very real potential to effect the region and the ground water at risk goes way beyond the fences. It looks like a recipe for disaster when the project is protected by the Just Us system and the people have no control, so they cross the legal lines and enter private property to be heard. How is enforcing property owners requests to remove trespassers that are interfering with the owners business a violation of their duty to defend the Constitution of the United States? It looks like the entire thing is a set up to incite rage and animosity over injustices that are legal so the protesters are breaking the law, themselves wanting to recruit revolutionaries. The end game of this particular event does not look like a winning battle. 