Posted on 10/15/2021 8:28:51 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Protesters held a sit-in Thursday at the Interior Department building in downtown Washington and clashed with police as they challenged fossil fuel projects and called for the declaration of a climate emergency. Multiple arrests were reported.
An Interior Department spokeswoman said a group of protesters rushed the lobby, injuring at least one security officer who was taken to a nearby hospital. Police and protesters clashed outside the building, and officers used Tasers against several unarmed protesters, a spokeswoman for the protest group said.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland was traveling Thursday and was not in the building during the protest.
“Interior Department leadership believes strongly in respecting and upholding the right to free speech and peaceful protest,″ Melissa Schwartz, a spokeswoman for Haaland, said in a statement.
Jennifer Falcon, a spokeswoman for the Indigenous Environmental Network, a coalition of Native American and environmental activists, put the number of people arrested at 50.
The protest was part of “a historic surge of Indigenous resistance” in the nation’s capital that started on Monday, Indigenous Peoples’ Day, outside the White House, she said. More than 100 people were arrested as protesters linked arms and sat along the White House fence line to call on the Biden administration to do more to combat climate change and ban fossil fuels.
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None of them were shot......
Funny, I don’t see the word “insurrection” anywhere in the article. Did I overlook it?
“The group called for an end to fossil fuel projects such as Line 3 and the Dakota Access oil pipeline, as well as abolition of Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs and restoration of millions of acres of land seized from Native Americans.”
A bunch of environmental wackos. They need the Jan 6 treatment.
Say the word!
“ Insurrection ! “
That's a far cry from the way the January 6 people have been treated.
Radical leftist environmental kooks take over the Interior Department -- "right to free speech"
Patriots take over the capitol to stop the biggest political scandal in the nation's history -- "INSURRECTION!! Throw them in solitary without trial!"
Put them in isolated confinement for 10 months in a DC jail!
It’s a siege! It’s a siege!
Call out the reaction force!
Shut down Washington, D.C.!
Put AOC in a rape proof steel box!
Why don’t these kooks try a simple experience: do not use any fossil fuel during the next six months, then report back to us with their experiences next April.
Has anyone checked to see if AOC is ok? She has to be frightened.
And don’t use any products created by the use of fossil,fuels either. But they of course don’t walk the walk, they just sit around blatting about the supposed evils while indulging themselves in the supposed evils because it makes life enjoyable and convenient to use them
SOLITARY!!! INSURRECTION!!
Say what you will but we need to adopt tactics like this. A sit in , hell multiple sit ins, will get out point across. Get our point across but don’t act like jackasses.
Has AOC come out and said that she was afraid that they were coming to rape her yet?
The only good protestor is one bleeding from every orifice after a beat down.
Nobody, nowhere, no how has an issue so important they should be able to disrupt another person going about their business.
all held wiout bail i presume
I couldn't find it either!
I wonder how many “indigenous people” were funded, like the “indigenous people” were in the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, by Putin?
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