Pipeline Protest Reporter Shot With Rubber Bullet Mid-Interview, She Says
Video shows her speaking with an activist before falling to the ground.
Hilary Hanson | Huffington Post
Nov 4, 2016
http://huff.to/2e9OS3x

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Footage taken during the Dakota Access Pipeline protests in North Dakota Wednesday appears to show a rubber bullet hitting a journalist in the back as she conducted an interview.

Erin Schrode, an activist and congressional candidate in California, posted a video on Facebook Thursday that shows her interviewing a Native American man, then suddenly falling to the ground as people rush to surround her in concern. She wrote that law enforcement shot her in the lower back with a rubber bullet, though neither the act nor the bullet can be seen on camera.

Link to Facebook video taken by Erin Schrode
https://www.facebook.com/erinschrode/videos/10209534018401713/

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Ms. Schrode sent an email to a contact of mine which I've excerpted here:

I was just shot. Militarized police fired at me from point blank range with a rubber bullet on the front lines of Standing Rock.

My body will be okay, but I am hurting, I am incensed, I am weeping, I am scared. Peaceful, prayerful, unarmed, nonviolent people on one side of a river; militarized police with armed vehicles and assault weapons occupying treaty land on the other, where sacred burial grounds have already been destroyed. What is happening here in North Dakota is like nothing I have ever seen in my life, anywhere in the world...

It is inexcusable for President Obama to say he will “let it play out for several more weeks." It is unjustifiable for the Attorney General to not be here. It is unconscionable for mainstream media to not cover this. It is indefensible for all politicians to not condemn what is occurring here. It is disgraceful for more people to not speak out and show up to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Pray for the water protectors, for justice, for our people and our world.