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The campaign led by the Standing Rock Sioux to stop the Dakota Access pipeline triggered a brutal crackdown from private security and law enforcement agencies.
Pipeline opponents were attacked with dogs, tear gas, and rubber bullets. Police and law enforcement employed surveillance and counterinsurgency tactics. At one point, protesters were shot with a water cannon in freezing cold weather, sending people to be treated for hypothermia and other injuries.
The Intercept has broken countless stories on TigerSwan, the private security firm hired by Dakota Access pipeline owner Energy Transfer. But we are still working on the story of how this brutal crackdown happened and who was responsible.
The Intercept is suing to gain access to thousands of pages of public records about TigerSwan’s involvement in the crackdown, but Energy Transfer has deployed aggressive East Coast lawyers to keep these records secret. The legal battle has already cost The Intercept more than $100,000, even though so far the trial court has decided that the law is on our side.
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