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womanofthehills

(8,690 posts)
Sat Oct 29, 2016, 09:24 PM Oct 2016

Native American woman being searched "He searched me everywhere, touched everywhere"

No response from Morton County sheriff's office
(maybe the red neck officers are just copying Trump)

Dakota Access pipeline: Native Americans allege cruel treatment

Gonzales said she spent 36 hours behind bars and was now facing multiple charges, including criminal trespassing and conspiracy with fire. Police also impounded her motor home, she said, with all of her belongings.

“I don’t have any clothes or anything,” she said, sitting in a hotel room in a local casino, where she and others were recovering from what they described as traumatic jail experiences.

Gonzales, who lives in Olympia in Washington state and has been at the camp for three months, said she was arrested while praying. “They slammed us on to the ground,” she said.

She said she was particularly upset by the way police repeatedly searched her and other Native American women.

“He searched me everywhere, touched everywhere,” she said, adding that the experience has been emotionally draining. “I was just crying. I couldn’t physically stop myself.”


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/29/dakota-access-pipeline-native-american-protesters

The Morton County sheriff’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
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Native American woman being searched "He searched me everywhere, touched everywhere" (Original Post) womanofthehills Oct 2016 OP
I am crying with her. sheshe2 Oct 2016 #1

sheshe2

(83,728 posts)
1. I am crying with her.
Sat Oct 29, 2016, 10:45 PM
Oct 2016
She said she was particularly upset by the way police repeatedly searched her and other Native American women.

“He searched me everywhere, touched everywhere,” she said, adding that the experience has been emotionally draining. “I was just crying. I couldn’t physically stop myself.”


So they are being treated as chattel and cattle as the Effing Bundy's walk away scot free because they are white and can. I am so pissed off.
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