CANNON BALL, N.D. — Authorities on Thursday cleared a protest camp where opponents of the Dakota Access oil pipeline had gathered for the better part of a year, searching tents and huts and arresting dozens of holdouts who had defied a government order to leave. It took 3 1/2 hours for about 220 officers and 18 National Guardsmen to methodically search the protesters’ temporary homes.
Oil Pipeline Camp In North Dakota Cleared
JAMES MacPHERSON and BLAKE NICHOLSON, Associated Press, The Columbian
Thu, 02/23/2017 - 11:20pm
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