Water Protectors are facing intense repression from local Sheriffs’ departments in Northern Minnesota who are being financially incentivized and paid to act against the opponents of Line 3 with huge sums of money flowing though the “Public Safety Escrow Trust” funded by the Enbridge Corporation.
This financial structure essentially privatizes public police forces to act in service to the private pecuniary interests of this foreign corporation against its political opponents and the Indigenous community; to stop and disrupt peaceful organizing and expression that would educate the larger community and national audience about the environmental devastation being caused by the Line 3 pipeline.
We have been fact finding on the ground at the site of Line 3 and are preparing the legal challenge to protect and advance Water Protectors’ constitutional rights.